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Arts & Humanities THE BOOK EATER Michael Zinman obsessive bibliophile and the critical-mess theory of collecting By Mark Singer Copyright © 2001 The New Yorker Read by David Henry Length: 45 minutes BIG BRILLIANT AMERICAN SOUND Garrick Ohlsson comes back to Chopin and rethinks his career as a pianist. By Michael Ulman Copyright ©1996 The Atlantic Read by Robert Starring Length: 14 minutes OUT OF SIBERIA How a baritone found his way to the Met. By Francine Du Plessix Gray Copyright © 2003 The New Yorker Read by Robert Starring Length: 33 minutes ORCHESTRAL MANEUVERS IN THE DARK The New York Philharmonic confronts a fickle audience punishing costs and uncertainty about classical music's place in urban life. How do you play that? By Arthur Lubow Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker Read by Robert Starring Length: 37 minutes THOSE WORDS THAT ECHO...ECHO...ECHO THROUGH LIFE How do I write? Why do I write? What do I write? By Jamaica Kincaid Copyright © 2000 The New Times Read by: Mary Beth Carroll Length: 12 minutes OUT OF CHARACTER Frances McDormand changes roles. By Joan Acocella Copyright © 2003 The New Yorker Read by: Beth Torrey Length: 25 minutes EUROPEAN DREAMS Rediscovering Joseph Roth By Joan Acocella Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker Read by Melissa Stewart Length: 38 minutes OUR LADY OF SORROWS Willfully unaware of the facts of her professional life listeners persist in thinking that Billie Holiday felt their pain. By Francis Davis Copyright © 2000 Read by Mary Roth Length: 21 minutes SHORT TALKS By Anne Carson First published and Copyright © 1992 The Yale Review Read by Melissa Stewart Length: 10 minutes THE CORPSE IN THE MIRROR: THE WARHOL WAKE By Stuart Klawans Copyright © 1990 Grand Street Read by Teri L. Clark Length: 30 minutes CHATWIN REVISITED By Paul Theroux Copyright © 1993 Granta Read by Paulette Banks Length: 19 minutes MEN WOMEN SEX AND DARWIN By Natalie Angier Copyright © 2000 The New York Times Magazine Read by Scott Huler Length: 29 minutes SENTIMENTAL JOURNEYS By Joan Didion First published and Copyright © 1992 The New York Review of Books Read by Melissa Stewart Length: 100 minutes THE WANDERER Decades of Dylanology have missed the point—the music is the message. By Alex Ross Copyright © 1999 The New Yorker Read by Mary Roth Length: 49 minutes WE ARE STILL ONLY HUMAN By Verlyn Klinkenborg Copyright © 1997 The New York Times Magazine Read by Mary Beth Carroll Length: 6 minutes JOYCE'S ODYSSEY By Edna O'Brien Copyright © 1999 The New Yorker Read by Jennifer McKnight Length: 37 minutes GROWING UP What holds a young dancer back? By Joan Acocella Copyright © 2002 The New Yorker Read by Mary Beth Carroll Length: 11 minutes THE SOUND TRACKING OF AMERICA We live surrounded by music from torch songs at Starbucks to the Beatles in the elevator and the barrage may be turning our minds to mush. By J. Bottum Copyright © 2000 The Atlantic Monthly March Read by Mary Roth Length: 45 minutes THE ARTIST By Edward Falco Copyright © 1995 The Atlantic Monthly Read by Scott Huler Length: 37 minutes ORIENTATION By Daniel Orozco Copyright © 1995 The Seattle Review Read by June Spence Length: 15 minutes LOST ART By John Updike Copyright © 2000 The New Yorker GOLDEN BOY The life and letters of Truman Capote. By Thomas Mallon Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker Read by Robert Starring Length: 23 minutes BLOCKED Why do writers stop writing? By Joan Acocella Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker Read by Melissa Stewart Length: 39 minutes RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT The making and unmaking of Dylan Thomas. By Adam Kirsch Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker Read by Robert Starring Length: 26 minutes THE CLEVELANDERS Can an orchestra survive its city? By Charles Michener Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker Read by Robert Starring Length: 42 minutes RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT The making and unmaking of Dylan Thomas. By Adam Kirsch Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker Read by Robert Starring Length: 26 minutes THE CANDY MAN Why children love Roald Dahl's stories - and many adults don't. By Margaret Talbot Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker Read by Katie Walter Length: 39 minutes THAT SUNDAY It was just one afternoon in a jazz club forty years ago. By Adam Gopnik Copyright © 2001 The New Yorker Read by Richard Wilson Length: 17 minutes IN DEFENSE OF THE BOOK On the enduring pleasures of paper type page and ink. By William H. Gass Copyright © 1999 Harper’s Magazine Read by Scott Huler Length: 38 minutes A LESSON FROM MICHELANGELO By James Fenton Copyright © 1995 The New York Review of Books Read by David Zinn Length: 42 minutes FIRST THINGS FIRST From Arts and Antiques By John Updike Copyright © 1998 Read by Kathleen Sullivan Length: 17 minutes THE SECRET LIFE OF AN ACTOR By David Whitford Copyright © 2001 Esquire Read by: Chris Purchis Length: 36 minutes WHITE MAN AT THE DOOR One man's mission to record the "dirty blues"--before everyone dies. By Jay McInerney Copyright © 2002 The New Yorker Read by Mary Roth Length: 45 minutes WHAT'S SO FUNNY? A scientific attempt to discover why we laugh. By Tad Friend Copyright © 2002 The New Yorker Read by Michael Emlaw Length: 45 minutes AMERICAN DIVA The world’s most beautiful voice belongs to a nice girl from Rochester. By Charles Michener Copyright © 2001 The New Yorker Read by Mary Roth Length: 35 minutes TERMINAL VELOCITY Craig Vetter Copyright © 2000 Outside Read by Linda Wilkins Length: 23 minutes EXPOSURE TIME Diane Arbus's estate opens up her life and work to new scrutiny By Judith Thurman Copyright © 2003 The New Yorker Read by Melissa Stewart Length: 33 minutes ART FOR EVERYBODY How Thomas Kinkade turned painting into big business. By Susan Orlean Copyright © 2001 The New Yorker Read by Paulette Banks Length: 27 minutes STILL LIFE By Mary Gordon Copyright © 1999 Harper's Magazine Read by Melissa Stewart Length: 30 minutes POETRY AND AMERICAN MEMORY The poet laureate reflects on what makes the American people “a people”—and what our poetry can teach us about the “fragile heroic enterprise of remembering." By Robert Pinsky Copyright © 1999 The Atlantic Monthly Read by Chris Purchis Length: 50 minutes THE KING OF THE FOREST In this memoir the author whose mother was the New Yorker fiction editor Katharine Angell and whose stepfather was the writer E. B. White remembers his father. By Roger Angell Copyright © 2000 The New Yorker Read by Robert Starring Length: 43 minutes A LESSON FROM MICHELANGELO By James Fenton Copyright © 1995 The New York Review of Books Read by David Zinn Length: 42 minutes THE SOUL SINGER A mezzo with the most potent voice since Callas. By Charles Michener Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker Read by Robert Starring Length: 39 minutes THE GIFT TO BE SIMPLE Sorting out Aaron Copland on the centennial of his birth. By David Denby Copyright © 1999 The New Yorker Read by Robert Starring Length: 36 minutes WITH FELLINI By Lillian Ross Copyright © 1998 Read by Robert Starring Length: 18 Minutes RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT The making and unmaking of Dylan Thomas. By Adam Kirsch Copyright © 2004 The New Yorker Read by Robert Starring Length: 26 minutes A NEW HORN What was that odd-looking instrument you saw in a jazz club or at the symphony? Is was David Monette’s reinvention of the trumpet. By Carl Vigland Copyright © 1999 Atlantic Monthly Read by Richard Wilson Length: 22 minutes THE ANGEL ESMERALDA By Don Delillo Copyright © 1995 Esquire Read by Kathleen Sullivan Length: 62 minutes A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND By Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) Copyright © 1979 St. Martin's Press Read by Kathleen Sullivan Length: 43 minutes RUNNING LIKE HELL Michael Finkel Copyright © 2000 Women's Sports and Fitness Read by Ann Moln Length: 36 minutes HAIR By Marcia Aldrich Copyright © 1993 Northwest Review Read by Kathleen Starling Length: 17 minutes THE MODERN MACHIAVELLI In the magnificent Gothic church of Santa Croce right in the heart of Florence tourists gape at what is perhaps the most celebrated array of monuments in any building in the world. By Paul Kennedy Copyright © 2002 The New York Review of Books Read by R. Stuestman Length: 41 minutes THE YEARS WITH THURBER The man and his letters By Robert Gottlieb Copyright © 2003 The New Yorker Length: 42 minutes RAYMOND CARVER MENTOR By Jay McInerney Copyright © 1990 The New York Times Book Review Read by Beth Torrey Length: 13 minutes HOLDEN AT FIFTY. “The Catcher in the Rye” and what it spawned By Louis Menand Copyright © 2001 The New Yorker Read by Michael Emlaw Length: 28 minutes DUMB DUMB DUH DUMB A brief collection of anecdotal evidence to support the notion that "a little knowledge" would in actuality represent major progress By Steve Mirsky Copyright © 2002 Scientific American Read by Ann Moln Length: 4 minutes DEATH OF A CHEF The changing landscape of French cooking. By William Echikson Copyright © 2003 The New Yorker Read by: Clelia Steele Length: 31 minutes FIRST TELL ME WHAT KIND OF READER YOU ARE By Roy Blount Jr. Copyright © 1997 The Oxford American Read by Paulette Banks Length: 10 minutes COMMON GROUND Finding our way back to the Enlightenment. By Thomas de Zengotita Copyright © 2003 Harper's Magazine Read by Dean Melmoth Length: 44 minutes THE RELUCTANT MEMORIALIST Maya Lin tried to put the business of monuments behind her. Then came September 11th. By Louis Menand Copyright © 2002 The New Yorker Read by Beth Torrey Length: 38 minutes
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