Choice Magazine Listening's Current Issue Features Tales of Siberia, Surfing, and a Small Town

Online, December 1, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Port Washington, NY - Stories about Siberian gulags, oversize surfing waves, and life in a small town after the local factories close down highlight the current issue of Choice Magazine Listening.

Choice Magazine Listening compiles the finest literary efforts to be found in magazines as selected by a team of professional editors. The articles are then recorded by talented narrators and distributed free of charge to the visually impaired and print-disabled. For nearly 50 years, CML editors have shown a knack for choosing articles, stories, and poems that have gone on to win many literary awards.

"On the Prison Highway," which appeared in the August 30 issue of The New Yorker, was taken from Ian Frazier's new book, "Travels in Siberia." In this segment, Mr. Frazier focuses on the notorious prisons in the far reaches of Siberia.

"This is a powerful article that raises the question of who will remember the horrors of Stalin when the prisons, many of which have not been seen for 50 years, completely dissolve into the landscape," said Sondra Mochson, editor in chief of Choice Magazine Listening. "We're sure our listeners will be just as moved by this piece as we were."

Susan Casey's "The Wave," which appeared in the Sept. 13 issue of Sports Illustrated, offers movement of a different sort as she puts readers on a surfboard atop some of the highest and most dangerous waves to be found anywhere. Another highlight of the issue is "High and Dry," Pulitzer-prize-winning author Richard Russo's memoir about his hometown of Gloversville, NY. Gloversville was once the dress-glove-manufacturing capital of the world until fashions changed and the factories started closing. This excerpt appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of Granta.

The remainder of Choice Magazine Listening's November issue is filled with riveting selections from the New York Times, New England Review, Yale Review, Harper's Magazine, The Sewanee Review, National Geographic, and several other prominent publications.

About Choice Magazine Listening
Choice Magazine Listening is a free audio anthology for a special audience of blind, visually impaired, physically disabled, or dyslexic subscribers. CML was created in 1962 by the nonprofit Lucerna Fund to offer the best of contemporary magazine writing, completely without charge, to adults unable to read standard print.
CML selects and records memorable writing from approximately 100 leading magazines. This unique, free service offers its subscribers 48 hours a year of outstanding unabridged articles, fiction, and poetry, read by professional voices.

For more information about Choice Magazine Listening, please contact Paul Rabin, 516-503-0271 ([email protected]).