CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING
JULY 2008
CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING, 85 CHANNEL DRIVE, PORT WASHINGTON,
NY 11050. UNABRIDGED SELECTIONS FROM OUTSTANDING PERIODICALS,
SOLELY FOR THE USE OF THOSE PREVENTED FROM READING BY VISUAL OR PHYSICAL
DISABILITY. CHOICE MAGAZINE LISTENING PRESENTS A WIDE RANGE OF
SIGNIFICANT WRITING WITHOUT NECESSARILY ENDORSING THE VIEWPOINTS EXPRESSED.
TABLE OF CONTENTS - ISSUE 278
TRACK 1
AN ANNOUNCEMENT from
the Editors of Choice Magazine Listening
WORDS ON THE WIND
(a poem) by Philip Levine, The Georgia Review, Spring 2008
NO FEELING OF
FALLING
by Dustin Beall Smith, Alaska Quarterly Review,
Spring & Summer 2008
TRACK 2
WHO IS THE WALRUS?
by Natalie Angier, The New York Times, May 20, 2008
THE PLAYBOY WAS A
SPY
(an essay) by Stephen Koch, The New York Times Book Review,
April 13, 2008
THE WORLD’S LAST
ENGLISHMAN
(fiction) by Rebecca Makkai, The Sewanee Review, Fall 2007
TRACK 3
HUNGRY MINDS
by Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, May 26, 2008
THIS IS PARADISE
by Jeanne Marie Laskas, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, May 2008
TRACK 4
THIS IS PARADISE
by Jeanne Marie Laskas (concluded)
TRACK 5
VING, VANG, VONG.
OR, THE PLEASURES OF A NEW VOCABULARY.
by Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Times, April 9, 2008
NO
by Brian
Doyle, The Kenyon Review, Spring 2008
DEUS EX MACHINA
by Fred Hapgood, Discover, June 2008
TRACK 6
THE SACRIFICE
(a poem) by Jim Simmerman, Prairie Schooner, Spring 1999
BEANBALL
(fiction) by Ron Carlson, One Story, November 20, 2007
TRACK 7
BEANBALL
(fiction) by Ron Carlson (concluded)
AN INTERVIEW WITH
RON CARLSON
by One Story, November 20, 2007
TRACK 8
YOU CAN TASTE THE
CLAY
by Hilary Mantel, Granta, Spring 2008
TIGERLAND
by Caroline Alexander, The New Yorker, April 21, 2008