http://www.drumlitmag.com en The Drum noYou don't read The Drum. You listen to it. The Drum Literary Magazine publishes short fiction, essays, novel excerpts, poems and interviews exclusively in audio form. The Drum is a your source for Literature Out Loud.A Literary Magazine For Your EarsThe Drum Literary Magazine https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/SafeAndSoundEpisode5Final.mp3 8:53 Episode 5 of Safe & Sound features a magical bird, a hypnotist and two writers with work perfectly suited to our current crisis. Tune in to meet debut novelist Jennifer Rosner and memoirist Sue William Silverman as they read from their new books and discuss creativity, survival and the importance of gallows humor. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/SafeAndSoundEpisode5Final.mp3 Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:51:20 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoEpisode 5 of Safe & Sound features a magical bird, a hypnotist and two writers with work perfectly suited to our current crisis. Tune in to meet debut novelist Jennifer Rosner and memoirist Sue William Silverman as they read from their new books and discuss creativity, survival and the importance of gallows humor.The Drum Literary MagazineEpisode 5 of Safe & Sound features a magical bird, a hypnotist and two writers with work perfectly suited to our current crisis. Tune in to meet debut novelist Jennifer Rosner and memoirist Sue William Silverman as they read from their new books and discuss creativity, survival and the importance of gallows humor. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/SafeAndSoundEpisode4Final.mp3 6:56 Mysterious dreams, red tulips and a suspicious car on a snowy Moscow night—all this can be found in Episode 4 of Safe & Sound. Listen in to meet writers Ann Lewinson and Carrie Callaghan as they introduce their brand-new books. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/SafeAndSoundEpisode4Final.mp3 Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:14:35 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoMysterious dreams, red tulips and a suspicious car on a snowy Moscow night—all this can be found in Episode 4 of Safe & Sound. Listen in to meet writers Ann Lewinson and Carrie Callaghan as they introduce their brand-new books.The Drum Literary MagazineMysterious dreams, red tulips and a suspicious car on a snowy Moscow night—all this can be found in Episode 4 of Safe & Sound. Listen in to meet writers Ann Lewinson and Carrie Callaghan as they introduce their brand-new books. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/SafeAndSoundEpisode3-49207.57PM.mp3 6:56 Liven up your couch-to-kitchen commute with tales of mug shots, animal companions, unexpected heirlooms and facing the worst-case scenario with Emily Dickinson. Tune in to meet memoirist Alia Volz and poet Lesley Wheeler on Episode 3 of Safe & Sound. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/SafeAndSoundEpisode3-49207.57PM.mp3 Thu, 09 Apr 2020 20:10:00 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoLiven up your couch-to-kitchen commute with tales of mug shots, animal companions, unexpected heirlooms and facing the worst-case scenario with Emily Dickinson. Tune in to meet memoirist Alia Volz and poet Lesley Wheeler on Episode 3 of Safe & Sound.The Drum Literary MagazineLiven up your couch-to-kitchen commute with tales of mug shots, animal companions, unexpected heirlooms and facing the worst-case scenario with Emily Dickinson. Tune in to meet memoirist Alia Volz and poet Lesley Wheeler on Episode 3 of Safe & Sound. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/SafeAndSoundEpisode2copy-44201.19AM.mp3 6:53 No trips to the bookstore this weekend, but you can tune in to Episode 2 of Safe & Sound to discover brand new books by writers Vanessa Hua and Gila Green. Listen in as they share stories about breaking and entering, elephant poaching and baking bread. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/SafeAndSoundEpisode2copy-44201.19AM.mp3 Sat, 04 Apr 2020 01:49:58 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoNo trips to the bookstore this weekend, but you can tune in to Episode 2 of Safe & Sound to discover brand new books by writers Vanessa Hua and Gila Green. Listen in as they share stories about breaking and entering, elephant poaching and baking bread.The Drum Literary MagazineNo trips to the bookstore this weekend, but you can tune in to Episode 2 of Safe & Sound to discover brand new books by writers Vanessa Hua and Gila Green. Listen in as they share stories about breaking and entering, elephant poaching and baking bread. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/SafeAndSoundEpisode1-328201.49PM.mp3 5:02 Though you may be hunkered down indoors, you can still reach out and connect to fresh voices and new stories. Check out the first episode of our “mini-cast,” Safe & Sound, where you’ll meet memoirist Helen Fremont, poet Jacob Strautmann, a West Virginia mining town and a "lightly used" cat. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/SafeAndSoundEpisode1-328201.49PM.mp3 Mon, 30 Mar 2020 21:06:09 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThough you may be hunkered down indoors, you can still reach out and connect to fresh voices and new stories. Check out the first episode of our “mini-cast,” Safe & Sound, where you’ll meet memoirist Helen Fremont, poet Jacob Strautmann, a West Virginia mining town and a "lightly used" cat.The Drum Literary MagazineThough you may be hunkered down indoors, you can still reach out and connect to fresh voices and new stories. Check out the first episode of our “mini-cast,” Safe & Sound, where you’ll meet memoirist Helen Fremont, poet Jacob Strautmann, a West Virginia mining town and a "lightly used" cat. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/ElizabethKnapp.mp3 12:59 Elizabeth Knapp reads her poems "Capital I," "Is That a Gun in Your Pocket" and "Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain Wrestling with the Angel" and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about topics ranging from American politics to her advice to young poets. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/ElizabethKnapp.mp3 Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:41:39 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoElizabeth Knapp reads her poems "Capital I," "Is That a Gun in Your Pocket" and "Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain Wrestling with the Angel" and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about topics ranging from American politics to her advice to young poets.The Drum Literary MagazineElizabeth Knapp reads her poems "Capital I," "Is That a Gun in Your Pocket" and "Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain Wrestling with the Angel" and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about topics ranging from American politics to her advice to young poets. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/CieraBurch--Yvonne.mp3 31:12 "Yvonne" by Ciera Burch is the 2019 One City One Story all-city read selection for the city of Boston. One City One Story is an annual project of the Boston Book Festival, which prints and distributes 20,000 copies of the selected story for free throughout Greater Boston. Ciera Burch will appear at the Boston Book Festival for town hall discussions on both October 19 and October 20, in Copley Square and Dudley Square. For more information about the Boston Book Festival and One City One Story, please visit bostonbookfest.org. The story is read aloud by Henriette Lazaridis. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/CieraBurch--Yvonne.mp3 Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:44:24 EDT The Drum Literary Magazineno"Yvonne" by Ciera Burch is the 2019 One City One Story all-city read selection for the city of Boston. One City One Story is an annual project of the Boston Book Festival, which prints and distributes 20,000 copies of the selected story for free throughout Greater Boston. Ciera Burch will appear at the Boston Book Festival for town hall discussions on both October 19 and October 20, in Copley Square and Dudley Square. For more information about the Boston Book Festival and One City One Story, please visit bostonbookfest.org. The story is read aloud by Henriette Lazaridis.The Drum Literary Magazine"Yvonne" by Ciera Burch is the 2019 One City One Story all-city read selection for the city of Boston. One City One Story is an annual project of the Boston Book Festival, which prints and distributes 20,000 copies of the selected story for free throughout Greater Boston. Ciera Burch will appear at the Boston Book Festival for town hall discussions on both October 19 and October 20, in Copley Square and Dudley Square. For more information about the Boston Book Festival and One City One Story, please visit bostonbookfest.org. The story is read aloud by Henriette Lazaridis. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/JanisseRay--Cheyenne.mp3 15:59 Cattle auctions, pastures, and an old horse. These make up the world of Janisse Ray's essay "Cheyenne", about an old horse taken in by Ray's family. Ray's piece explores the nature of love, the connections between love and pity, and the discovery of grace. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/JanisseRay--Cheyenne.mp3 Wed, 01 May 2019 08:52:12 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoCattle auctions, pastures, and an old horse. These make up the world of Janisse Ray's essay "Cheyenne", about an old horse taken in by Ray's family. Ray's piece explores the nature of love, the connections between love and pity, and the discovery of grace.The Drum Literary MagazineCattle auctions, pastures, and an old horse. These make up the world of Janisse Ray's essay "Cheyenne", about an old horse taken in by Ray's family. Ray's piece explores the nature of love, the connections between love and pity, and the discovery of grace. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/GeoffMartin--BurningSilence.mp3 15:04 The repetitive work of a tree-planting camp, the complexity of the forest, and above all, the sounds of that world--these are the subjects of Geoff Martin's essay "Burning Silence". Tasked with tending a loud generator, Martin contemplates how noise and stillness fuel our creativity. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/GeoffMartin--BurningSilence.mp3 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 11:05:16 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe repetitive work of a tree-planting camp, the complexity of the forest, and above all, the sounds of that world--these are the subjects of Geoff Martin's essay "Burning Silence". Tasked with tending a loud generator, Martin contemplates how noise and stillness fuel our creativity.The Drum Literary MagazineThe repetitive work of a tree-planting camp, the complexity of the forest, and above all, the sounds of that world--these are the subjects of Geoff Martin's essay "Burning Silence". Tasked with tending a loud generator, Martin contemplates how noise and stillness fuel our creativity. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/MayaDetwiller--Toads.mp3 10:35 Maya Detwiller's short story "Toads" explores the pains and rewards of adolescence through a child's habit of collecting toads. A giant supervising and creating miniature worlds, the story's narrator finds herself looking for a place--a place to fit, to belong, to grow in and away from. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/MayaDetwiller--Toads.mp3 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:14:03 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoMaya Detwiller's short story "Toads" explores the pains and rewards of adolescence through a child's habit of collecting toads. A giant supervising and creating miniature worlds, the story's narrator finds herself looking for a place--a place to fit, to belong, to grow in and away from.The Drum Literary MagazineMaya Detwiller's short story "Toads" explores the pains and rewards of adolescence through a child's habit of collecting toads. A giant supervising and creating miniature worlds, the story's narrator finds herself looking for a place--a place to fit, to belong, to grow in and away from. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/NickoleBrown--TwoPoems.mp3 37:18 Nickole Brown reads her poems "Wild Thing" and "Against Despair: The Kid Goat" and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about topics ranging from her inspiration for her work, to her Kentucky upbringing, to the first poem that resonated with her. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/NickoleBrown--TwoPoems.mp3 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:47:16 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoNickole Brown reads her poems "Wild Thing" and "Against Despair: The Kid Goat" and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about topics ranging from her inspiration for her work, to her Kentucky upbringing, to the first poem that resonated with her.The Drum Literary MagazineNickole Brown reads her poems "Wild Thing" and "Against Despair: The Kid Goat" and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about topics ranging from her inspiration for her work, to her Kentucky upbringing, to the first poem that resonated with her. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/KariLund-Tiegen--KeepinTouch.mp3 14:09 The Great Confusion has occurred, and in its aftermath, Bea is looking for her daughter. Her husband has gone missing, too. Kari Lund-Teigen's "Keep in Touch" vividly evokes a dystopian world, as well as the lengths to which its inhabitants will go to to communicate and connect. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/KariLund-Tiegen--KeepinTouch.mp3 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 14:32:05 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe Great Confusion has occurred, and in its aftermath, Bea is looking for her daughter. Her husband has gone missing, too. Kari Lund-Teigen's "Keep in Touch" vividly evokes a dystopian world, as well as the lengths to which its inhabitants will go to to communicate and connect.The Drum Literary MagazineThe Great Confusion has occurred, and in its aftermath, Bea is looking for her daughter. Her husband has gone missing, too. Kari Lund-Teigen's "Keep in Touch" vividly evokes a dystopian world, as well as the lengths to which its inhabitants will go to to communicate and connect. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/S.D.Jones--TheIdealReasoner.mp3 22:19 S.D. Jones' short story "The Ideal Reasoner" gives a comic and touching twist to relationship trouble, as a Shelockian AI creates upheaval in a marriage--only to bring about a surprising resolution. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/S.D.Jones--TheIdealReasoner.mp3 Wed, 06 Feb 2019 14:17:33 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoS.D. Jones' short story "The Ideal Reasoner" gives a comic and touching twist to relationship trouble, as a Shelockian AI creates upheaval in a marriage--only to bring about a surprising resolution.The Drum Literary MagazineS.D. Jones' short story "The Ideal Reasoner" gives a comic and touching twist to relationship trouble, as a Shelockian AI creates upheaval in a marriage--only to bring about a surprising resolution. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/BradfordPhilen--WhatsHeavy.mp3 21:49 "I don't have much time," says Dickie, the narrator of Bradford Philen's "What's Heavy". Dickie is a high-school kid, but he doesn't have much time--before his father's kidneys give out, before the coming hurricane hits, before Ophelia, the girl he's into, gives up on him. Dickie is under more than specific pressures on this one night when his many burdens weigh on him. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/BradfordPhilen--WhatsHeavy.mp3 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:57:18 EST The Drum Literary Magazineno"I don't have much time," says Dickie, the narrator of Bradford Philen's "What's Heavy". Dickie is a high-school kid, but he doesn't have much time--before his father's kidneys give out, before the coming hurricane hits, before Ophelia, the girl he's into, gives up on him. Dickie is under more than specific pressures on this one night when his many burdens weigh on him.The Drum Literary Magazine"I don't have much time," says Dickie, the narrator of Bradford Philen's "What's Heavy". Dickie is a high-school kid, but he doesn't have much time--before his father's kidneys give out, before the coming hurricane hits, before Ophelia, the girl he's into, gives up on him. Dickie is under more than specific pressures on this one night when his many burdens weigh on him. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/KaiaPreus--NextLife.mp3 19:24 Frankie is a pet rat. And in Kaia Preus' story "Next Life," he is dying. As Zoe tries to soften his last moments, she tries, too, to find balance in her relationships with two men. Tenderness towards Frankie becomes her litmus test, but also the source of some surprising insights. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/KaiaPreus--NextLife.mp3 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:35:16 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoFrankie is a pet rat. And in Kaia Preus' story "Next Life," he is dying. As Zoe tries to soften his last moments, she tries, too, to find balance in her relationships with two men. Tenderness towards Frankie becomes her litmus test, but also the source of some surprising insights.The Drum Literary MagazineFrankie is a pet rat. And in Kaia Preus' story "Next Life," he is dying. As Zoe tries to soften his last moments, she tries, too, to find balance in her relationships with two men. Tenderness towards Frankie becomes her litmus test, but also the source of some surprising insights. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/HeatherCripps--DevilsDrop.mp3 15:51 Three boys make an unpleasant discovery while playing in a local park. Through one boy's narration, Heather Cripps' "Devil's Drop" tells the story of the children's vulnerability and the poignant ways in which they search for reassurance. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/HeatherCripps--DevilsDrop.mp3 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:27:39 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThree boys make an unpleasant discovery while playing in a local park. Through one boy's narration, Heather Cripps' "Devil's Drop" tells the story of the children's vulnerability and the poignant ways in which they search for reassurance.The Drum Literary MagazineThree boys make an unpleasant discovery while playing in a local park. Through one boy's narration, Heather Cripps' "Devil's Drop" tells the story of the children's vulnerability and the poignant ways in which they search for reassurance. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/JanuaryGillONeil--poetry.mp3 9:44 What better way to start off 2019 on The Drum than to fill our January issue with poems by January Gill O'Neil. O'Neil speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur after reading aloud two poems from her new book Rewilding. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/JanuaryGillONeil--poetry.mp3 Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:09:09 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoWhat better way to start off 2019 on The Drum than to fill our January issue with poems by January Gill O'Neil. O'Neil speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur after reading aloud two poems from her new book Rewilding.The Drum Literary MagazineWhat better way to start off 2019 on The Drum than to fill our January issue with poems by January Gill O'Neil. O'Neil speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur after reading aloud two poems from her new book Rewilding. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/AndreaJohnston--FeedingChampion.mp3 9:29 When a robber encounters a hungry Golden Retriever while breaking into a house, the encounter evokes a poignant monologue about how to treat a dog and how not to stock a refrigerator. And Andrea Johnston's "Feeding Champion" is about much more than that. It's about the responsibilities we have towards each other, and about how we do what's right even when promises change. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/AndreaJohnston--FeedingChampion.mp3 Fri, 11 Jan 2019 17:10:47 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoWhen a robber encounters a hungry Golden Retriever while breaking into a house, the encounter evokes a poignant monologue about how to treat a dog and how not to stock a refrigerator. And Andrea Johnston's "Feeding Champion" is about much more than that. It's about the responsibilities we have towards each other, and about how we do what's right even when promises change.The Drum Literary MagazineWhen a robber encounters a hungry Golden Retriever while breaking into a house, the encounter evokes a poignant monologue about how to treat a dog and how not to stock a refrigerator. And Andrea Johnston's "Feeding Champion" is about much more than that. It's about the responsibilities we have towards each other, and about how we do what's right even when promises change. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/AlecSolomita--Squirrel.mp3 20:17 In 1970, the narrator and his several brothers drive off in a Duster to defend their mother's honor. The fact that most of them are high plays some role in the confusion that ensues. Alec Solomita's "Squirrel" is a tale of sibling allegiances and misunderstandings, told with tenderness and wit. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/AlecSolomita--Squirrel.mp3 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:39:51 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn 1970, the narrator and his several brothers drive off in a Duster to defend their mother's honor. The fact that most of them are high plays some role in the confusion that ensues. Alec Solomita's "Squirrel" is a tale of sibling allegiances and misunderstandings, told with tenderness and wit.The Drum Literary MagazineIn 1970, the narrator and his several brothers drive off in a Duster to defend their mother's honor. The fact that most of them are high plays some role in the confusion that ensues. Alec Solomita's "Squirrel" is a tale of sibling allegiances and misunderstandings, told with tenderness and wit. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/GuyThorvaldsen--HornyforConstruction.mp3 15:02 Two men work to remove a heavy cast-iron tub from a bathroom. They are both middle-aged; one is a teacher, a writer. In Guy Thorvaldsen's essay "Horny For Construction," working with your hands is full of lessons--about rewards and process, but also about what Thorvaldsen calls "small disagreements with the universe". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/GuyThorvaldsen--HornyforConstruction.mp3 Fri, 07 Dec 2018 11:39:29 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoTwo men work to remove a heavy cast-iron tub from a bathroom. They are both middle-aged; one is a teacher, a writer. In Guy Thorvaldsen's essay "Horny For Construction," working with your hands is full of lessons--about rewards and process, but also about what Thorvaldsen calls "small disagreements with the universe".The Drum Literary MagazineTwo men work to remove a heavy cast-iron tub from a bathroom. They are both middle-aged; one is a teacher, a writer. In Guy Thorvaldsen's essay "Horny For Construction," working with your hands is full of lessons--about rewards and process, but also about what Thorvaldsen calls "small disagreements with the universe". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/AmyLillard--HeadLikeaHole.mp3 20:50 The husband who narrates Amy Lee Lillard's story "Head Like a Hole" watches, puzzled, as a perfectly round hole grows in his backyard. The growing hole, and the wife's ongoing vigil, tell a poignant story of self, integrity, and, ultimately, connection. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/AmyLillard--HeadLikeaHole.mp3 Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:33:57 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe husband who narrates Amy Lee Lillard's story "Head Like a Hole" watches, puzzled, as a perfectly round hole grows in his backyard. The growing hole, and the wife's ongoing vigil, tell a poignant story of self, integrity, and, ultimately, connection.The Drum Literary MagazineThe husband who narrates Amy Lee Lillard's story "Head Like a Hole" watches, puzzled, as a perfectly round hole grows in his backyard. The growing hole, and the wife's ongoing vigil, tell a poignant story of self, integrity, and, ultimately, connection. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/MarshaMcDonald--swim.mp3 11:18 What is held, what holds you, in water or in air? Marsha McDonald's story "s w i m" raises and explores these questions through the story of a girl taught to swim by her uncle. Learning much more than that about her body's resilience, the narrator connects her experience to the terrors and enticements of deep water. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/MarshaMcDonald--swim.mp3 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 11:14:42 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoWhat is held, what holds you, in water or in air? Marsha McDonald's story "s w i m" raises and explores these questions through the story of a girl taught to swim by her uncle. Learning much more than that about her body's resilience, the narrator connects her experience to the terrors and enticements of deep water.The Drum Literary MagazineWhat is held, what holds you, in water or in air? Marsha McDonald's story "s w i m" raises and explores these questions through the story of a girl taught to swim by her uncle. Learning much more than that about her body's resilience, the narrator connects her experience to the terrors and enticements of deep water. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/GregorySpatz--HitMe.mp3 34:36 A group of high-school boys tests each other and themselves with the game of knuckles. From the pain of knuckles, to the release of getting high, to the sweet pleasure of a Charleston Chew, these boys feel everything, and try to pretend they can choose what they let in. "Hit Me" is a story--beautifully performed by Spatz--about aggression, recklessness, and surprising weakness. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/GregorySpatz--HitMe.mp3 Mon, 05 Nov 2018 16:01:44 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoA group of high-school boys tests each other and themselves with the game of knuckles. From the pain of knuckles, to the release of getting high, to the sweet pleasure of a Charleston Chew, these boys feel everything, and try to pretend they can choose what they let in. "Hit Me" is a story--beautifully performed by Spatz--about aggression, recklessness, and surprising weakness.The Drum Literary MagazineA group of high-school boys tests each other and themselves with the game of knuckles. From the pain of knuckles, to the release of getting high, to the sweet pleasure of a Charleston Chew, these boys feel everything, and try to pretend they can choose what they let in. "Hit Me" is a story--beautifully performed by Spatz--about aggression, recklessness, and surprising weakness. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/ErinHoover--Poems.mp3 16:45 Erin Hoover's poems "What Is The Sisterhood to Me" and "If You Are Confused About Whether a Girl Can Consent" speak to the issues of our current news-cycle and to the timeless issues of power and selfhood. In an accompanying interview with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur, Hoover talks about her process, her favorite poem, and other aspects of her work. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/ErinHoover--Poems.mp3 Fri, 26 Oct 2018 14:14:37 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoErin Hoover's poems "What Is The Sisterhood to Me" and "If You Are Confused About Whether a Girl Can Consent" speak to the issues of our current news-cycle and to the timeless issues of power and selfhood. In an accompanying interview with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur, Hoover talks about her process, her favorite poem, and other aspects of her work.The Drum Literary MagazineErin Hoover's poems "What Is The Sisterhood to Me" and "If You Are Confused About Whether a Girl Can Consent" speak to the issues of our current news-cycle and to the timeless issues of power and selfhood. In an accompanying interview with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur, Hoover talks about her process, her favorite poem, and other aspects of her work. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/KateWisel--HappyHour.mp3 5:30 A tattoo on a woman's body becomes the locus of a complex interaction between power and passivity in Kate Wisel's short story "Happy Hour". Within a relationship marked with bruises and broken bones, the tattoo raises questions of independence and escape. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/KateWisel--HappyHour.mp3 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 17:01:55 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA tattoo on a woman's body becomes the locus of a complex interaction between power and passivity in Kate Wisel's short story "Happy Hour". Within a relationship marked with bruises and broken bones, the tattoo raises questions of independence and escape.The Drum Literary MagazineA tattoo on a woman's body becomes the locus of a complex interaction between power and passivity in Kate Wisel's short story "Happy Hour". Within a relationship marked with bruises and broken bones, the tattoo raises questions of independence and escape. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/EvaDunsky--ButThatsNotTheWayItFeels.mp3 9:49 The Wednesday Fiasco is how Eva Dunsky refers to the sudden end of an adolescent relationship. "But That's Not The Way It Feels" is a wry account of a break-up, tinged with the melancholy wisdom of Jim Croce and youthful perspective. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/EvaDunsky--ButThatsNotTheWayItFeels.mp3 Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:19:09 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe Wednesday Fiasco is how Eva Dunsky refers to the sudden end of an adolescent relationship. "But That's Not The Way It Feels" is a wry account of a break-up, tinged with the melancholy wisdom of Jim Croce and youthful perspective.The Drum Literary MagazineThe Wednesday Fiasco is how Eva Dunsky refers to the sudden end of an adolescent relationship. "But That's Not The Way It Feels" is a wry account of a break-up, tinged with the melancholy wisdom of Jim Croce and youthful perspective. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/KateLasell--Fen.mp3 11:52 A swamp is home to an imagined panther named "Fen" in Kate Lassell's eponymous story. Narrated by a precocious kid named Judith, the story follows a father and daughter fighting to preserve a threatened marsh--and working to sustain their small family after a tragic loss. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/KateLasell--Fen.mp3 Wed, 26 Sep 2018 17:20:12 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA swamp is home to an imagined panther named "Fen" in Kate Lassell's eponymous story. Narrated by a precocious kid named Judith, the story follows a father and daughter fighting to preserve a threatened marsh--and working to sustain their small family after a tragic loss.The Drum Literary MagazineA swamp is home to an imagined panther named "Fen" in Kate Lassell's eponymous story. Narrated by a precocious kid named Judith, the story follows a father and daughter fighting to preserve a threatened marsh--and working to sustain their small family after a tragic loss. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/PhilShreck--Mailbox.mp3 22:56 A thing as ordinary as a mailbox becomes the focus of all of one man's passions in Phil Shreck's eponymous story. Russell tilts not at windmills but at his mailboxes, old and new, and at a deep-seated sense of inadequacy. Shreck reads his darkly funny story aloud in a brilliant performance. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/PhilShreck--Mailbox.mp3 Wed, 19 Sep 2018 18:19:32 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA thing as ordinary as a mailbox becomes the focus of all of one man's passions in Phil Shreck's eponymous story. Russell tilts not at windmills but at his mailboxes, old and new, and at a deep-seated sense of inadequacy. Shreck reads his darkly funny story aloud in a brilliant performance.The Drum Literary MagazineA thing as ordinary as a mailbox becomes the focus of all of one man's passions in Phil Shreck's eponymous story. Russell tilts not at windmills but at his mailboxes, old and new, and at a deep-seated sense of inadequacy. Shreck reads his darkly funny story aloud in a brilliant performance. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/ShaneSeeley--Poems.mp3 18:32 Shane Seely reads his poems "Just Now a Goose" and "Two Stories Up" and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about his process, his first favorite poem, and how he likes to write by "leaning out over his skis". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/ShaneSeeley--Poems.mp3 Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:37:27 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoShane Seely reads his poems "Just Now a Goose" and "Two Stories Up" and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about his process, his first favorite poem, and how he likes to write by "leaning out over his skis".The Drum Literary MagazineShane Seely reads his poems "Just Now a Goose" and "Two Stories Up" and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about his process, his first favorite poem, and how he likes to write by "leaning out over his skis". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/VirginiaMarshall--DispatchBrittIA-WhenHobosComeHome.mp3 14:43 Every summer since 1900, the National Hobo Convention takes place in Britt, Iowa, a tiny town whose two train lines have made it the center of hobo memory for generations. Virginia Marshall's Dispatch from the Convention captures the voices of hobos gathered to name their king and queen, and speaks of the idea of freedom and the reality of borders as they define the hobo way of life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/VirginiaMarshall--DispatchBrittIA-WhenHobosComeHome.mp3 Thu, 06 Sep 2018 11:15:09 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoEvery summer since 1900, the National Hobo Convention takes place in Britt, Iowa, a tiny town whose two train lines have made it the center of hobo memory for generations. Virginia Marshall's Dispatch from the Convention captures the voices of hobos gathered to name their king and queen, and speaks of the idea of freedom and the reality of borders as they define the hobo way of life.The Drum Literary MagazineEvery summer since 1900, the National Hobo Convention takes place in Britt, Iowa, a tiny town whose two train lines have made it the center of hobo memory for generations. Virginia Marshall's Dispatch from the Convention captures the voices of hobos gathered to name their king and queen, and speaks of the idea of freedom and the reality of borders as they define the hobo way of life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/AustinSegrest--TwoPoems.mp3 8:18 Football and a bong are the ostensible subjects of Austin Segrest's two poems "Wingback" and "The Big Bong". Segrest's poetry is both playful and serious here, classically grounded and utterly contemporary. After reading the poems, he speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about his sources of ideas, his approach to writing, and his current non-poetry obsession: tennis. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/AustinSegrest--TwoPoems.mp3 Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:53:38 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoFootball and a bong are the ostensible subjects of Austin Segrest's two poems "Wingback" and "The Big Bong". Segrest's poetry is both playful and serious here, classically grounded and utterly contemporary. After reading the poems, he speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about his sources of ideas, his approach to writing, and his current non-poetry obsession: tennis.The Drum Literary MagazineFootball and a bong are the ostensible subjects of Austin Segrest's two poems "Wingback" and "The Big Bong". Segrest's poetry is both playful and serious here, classically grounded and utterly contemporary. After reading the poems, he speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about his sources of ideas, his approach to writing, and his current non-poetry obsession: tennis. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/FebruaryFlashMixtape.mp3 21:45 Since February is the shortest month, we think it's the perfect time for the shortest of stories. And so, we bring you that icon of long-ago pop culture, now modified for the post-cassette era: the mixtape. In one track, we've compiled six short pieces from The Drum's archives, from writers Matt Bell, Ron MacLean, Michelle Seaton, Cumi Ikeda, Allison Williams, and Nathan Poole. These are tales of snakes and tidepools, butchers and fish, identity and danger. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/FebruaryFlashMixtape.mp3 Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:53:42 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoSince February is the shortest month, we think it's the perfect time for the shortest of stories. And so, we bring you that icon of long-ago pop culture, now modified for the post-cassette era: the mixtape. In one track, we've compiled six short pieces from The Drum's archives, from writers Matt Bell, Ron MacLean, Michelle Seaton, Cumi Ikeda, Allison Williams, and Nathan Poole. These are tales of snakes and tidepools, butchers and fish, identity and danger.The Drum Literary MagazineSince February is the shortest month, we think it's the perfect time for the shortest of stories. And so, we bring you that icon of long-ago pop culture, now modified for the post-cassette era: the mixtape. In one track, we've compiled six short pieces from The Drum's archives, from writers Matt Bell, Ron MacLean, Michelle Seaton, Cumi Ikeda, Allison Williams, and Nathan Poole. These are tales of snakes and tidepools, butchers and fish, identity and danger. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/FrederickSpeers--ThreePoemsandanInterview.mp3 28:00 Frederick Speers' poems "Deerskull," "Interlude Blues," and "Star Jasmine" are not your usual love poems. Featuring loss, death, and decay, they explore the darker side of love. In his interview with Kirun Kapur, Speers talks about how his work originates, about his relationship with love poetry, and about how his work fits or doesn't into the long tradition of poems about love. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/FrederickSpeers--ThreePoemsandanInterview.mp3 Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:24:42 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoFrederick Speers' poems "Deerskull," "Interlude Blues," and "Star Jasmine" are not your usual love poems. Featuring loss, death, and decay, they explore the darker side of love. In his interview with Kirun Kapur, Speers talks about how his work originates, about his relationship with love poetry, and about how his work fits or doesn't into the long tradition of poems about love.The Drum Literary MagazineFrederick Speers' poems "Deerskull," "Interlude Blues," and "Star Jasmine" are not your usual love poems. Featuring loss, death, and decay, they explore the darker side of love. In his interview with Kirun Kapur, Speers talks about how his work originates, about his relationship with love poetry, and about how his work fits or doesn't into the long tradition of poems about love. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/LeslieWilliams--Poems.mp3 15:31 "XOX" begins with a fake-leather belt and concludes with thoughts on the sincerity of greetings and the limits of our reaching out to those in trouble. In both this poem and in "Teach Us to Number Our Days," Leslie Williams works within a surprising complexity to bring musicality and meaning together--topics she discusses in her interview with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/LeslieWilliams--Poems.mp3 Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:31:08 EST The Drum Literary Magazineno"XOX" begins with a fake-leather belt and concludes with thoughts on the sincerity of greetings and the limits of our reaching out to those in trouble. In both this poem and in "Teach Us to Number Our Days," Leslie Williams works within a surprising complexity to bring musicality and meaning together--topics she discusses in her interview with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur.The Drum Literary Magazine"XOX" begins with a fake-leather belt and concludes with thoughts on the sincerity of greetings and the limits of our reaching out to those in trouble. In both this poem and in "Teach Us to Number Our Days," Leslie Williams works within a surprising complexity to bring musicality and meaning together--topics she discusses in her interview with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/BrandiReissenweber--WhereWeFoundTheGirls.mp3 28:01 The anger and frustration of girls is at the core of Brandi Reissenweber's short story "Where We Found the Girls". As, one by one, four girls in a community are discovered in strange and mysterious circumstances, the townspeople must confront what they themselves have failed to see and understand. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/BrandiReissenweber--WhereWeFoundTheGirls.mp3 Mon, 22 Jan 2018 08:46:36 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe anger and frustration of girls is at the core of Brandi Reissenweber's short story "Where We Found the Girls". As, one by one, four girls in a community are discovered in strange and mysterious circumstances, the townspeople must confront what they themselves have failed to see and understand.The Drum Literary MagazineThe anger and frustration of girls is at the core of Brandi Reissenweber's short story "Where We Found the Girls". As, one by one, four girls in a community are discovered in strange and mysterious circumstances, the townspeople must confront what they themselves have failed to see and understand. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/LauraJones--DeathFearsHim.mp3 16:24 Mustang Wanted is one of a small group of young men who hang by their bare hands from the tops of skyscrapers. Without ropes. Laura Jones' essay "Death Fears Him" delves into this subculture, exploring the dangerous and fascinating intersection of risk and fame. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/LauraJones--DeathFearsHim.mp3 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 08:36:09 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoMustang Wanted is one of a small group of young men who hang by their bare hands from the tops of skyscrapers. Without ropes. Laura Jones' essay "Death Fears Him" delves into this subculture, exploring the dangerous and fascinating intersection of risk and fame.The Drum Literary MagazineMustang Wanted is one of a small group of young men who hang by their bare hands from the tops of skyscrapers. Without ropes. Laura Jones' essay "Death Fears Him" delves into this subculture, exploring the dangerous and fascinating intersection of risk and fame. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/CindyHouse--DearDeer.mp3 18:45 A woman, her two sons, her ex, and a deer. Add to this the knife the ex is using to gut the animal and you have a family crisis of compelling drama. Cindy House's "Dear Deer" doesn't skimp on the suspense but finds humor too in this confrontation over much more than one hunted animal. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/CindyHouse--DearDeer.mp3 Tue, 02 Jan 2018 11:03:54 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoA woman, her two sons, her ex, and a deer. Add to this the knife the ex is using to gut the animal and you have a family crisis of compelling drama. Cindy House's "Dear Deer" doesn't skimp on the suspense but finds humor too in this confrontation over much more than one hunted animal.The Drum Literary MagazineA woman, her two sons, her ex, and a deer. Add to this the knife the ex is using to gut the animal and you have a family crisis of compelling drama. Cindy House's "Dear Deer" doesn't skimp on the suspense but finds humor too in this confrontation over much more than one hunted animal. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/LisaPiazza--Fairyland.mp3 5:51 A young couple, a little girl, and a seaside carnival come together in this short piece by Lisa Piazza. They come together and they come apart, while the mother who narrates the piece ponders the funhouse-mirror quality of the new land she finds herself in after divorce. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/LisaPiazza--Fairyland.mp3 Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:25:46 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoA young couple, a little girl, and a seaside carnival come together in this short piece by Lisa Piazza. They come together and they come apart, while the mother who narrates the piece ponders the funhouse-mirror quality of the new land she finds herself in after divorce.The Drum Literary MagazineA young couple, a little girl, and a seaside carnival come together in this short piece by Lisa Piazza. They come together and they come apart, while the mother who narrates the piece ponders the funhouse-mirror quality of the new land she finds herself in after divorce. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/OneCityOneStory2017RelativitybyDaphneKalotay.mp3 33:46 Our partners the Boston Book Festival chose Daphne Kalotay’s “Relativity” as the selection for the 2017 One City One Story project. The story appeared in print--for the first time--in free booklets available throughout Boston. But you can listen to Daphne read it aloud herself here--and only here--on The Drum. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/OneCityOneStory2017RelativitybyDaphneKalotay.mp3 Mon, 04 Dec 2017 14:18:43 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoOur partners the Boston Book Festival chose Daphne Kalotay’s “Relativity” as the selection for the 2017 One City One Story project. The story appeared in print--for the first time--in free booklets available throughout Boston. But you can listen to Daphne read it aloud herself here--and only here--on The Drum.The Drum Literary MagazineOur partners the Boston Book Festival chose Daphne Kalotay’s “Relativity” as the selection for the 2017 One City One Story project. The story appeared in print--for the first time--in free booklets available throughout Boston. But you can listen to Daphne read it aloud herself here--and only here--on The Drum. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ValerieMaloof--ParkingGarageLateatNight.mp3 2:50 How fearless can you be? How fearless can you afford to be? In the "Parking Garage Late at Night" of Val Maloof's flash fiction, one woman's fear and imagination twine together as she faces danger. Maloof explores how the story the woman tells herself and the stories she's been told all her life--by her mother, by society--combine to save or abandon her. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ValerieMaloof--ParkingGarageLateatNight.mp3 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 04:54:01 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoHow fearless can you be? How fearless can you afford to be? In the "Parking Garage Late at Night" of Val Maloof's flash fiction, one woman's fear and imagination twine together as she faces danger. Maloof explores how the story the woman tells herself and the stories she's been told all her life--by her mother, by society--combine to save or abandon her.The Drum Literary MagazineHow fearless can you be? How fearless can you afford to be? In the "Parking Garage Late at Night" of Val Maloof's flash fiction, one woman's fear and imagination twine together as she faces danger. Maloof explores how the story the woman tells herself and the stories she's been told all her life--by her mother, by society--combine to save or abandon her. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JoshSheridan--Faith.mp3 6:46 In Josh Sheridan's complicated story "Faith," a woman negotiates the hypocrisy and exploitation of a small religious group. Whether you see the group as a cult or a religion, and whether you see the woman as a heretic or a believer will depend on your own ideas about faith. But Sheridan renders vividly the tense and passionate world in which his unnamed character wields the power of surrender and control. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JoshSheridan--Faith.mp3 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 04:52:33 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Josh Sheridan's complicated story "Faith," a woman negotiates the hypocrisy and exploitation of a small religious group. Whether you see the group as a cult or a religion, and whether you see the woman as a heretic or a believer will depend on your own ideas about faith. But Sheridan renders vividly the tense and passionate world in which his unnamed character wields the power of surrender and control.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Josh Sheridan's complicated story "Faith," a woman negotiates the hypocrisy and exploitation of a small religious group. Whether you see the group as a cult or a religion, and whether you see the woman as a heretic or a believer will depend on your own ideas about faith. But Sheridan renders vividly the tense and passionate world in which his unnamed character wields the power of surrender and control. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-HannaOnoguwe--TheHousewife.mp3 24:40 A Nigerian woman's domination by her new husband forms the narrative of Hannah Onoguwe's "The Housewife" as, step by step, Aramide faces more and more restrictions--on what she can wear, whom she can visit, and finally where she can go. But confined to her house, visited only by the generator repairman, and allowed out only to have her fidelity tested by priests, Aramide discovers ways to subvert her husband's authority. Onoguwe's story brings surprise and delight in its lively telling. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-HannaOnoguwe--TheHousewife.mp3 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 04:46:50 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA Nigerian woman's domination by her new husband forms the narrative of Hannah Onoguwe's "The Housewife" as, step by step, Aramide faces more and more restrictions--on what she can wear, whom she can visit, and finally where she can go. But confined to her house, visited only by the generator repairman, and allowed out only to have her fidelity tested by priests, Aramide discovers ways to subvert her husband's authority. Onoguwe's story brings surprise and delight in its lively telling.The Drum Literary MagazineA Nigerian woman's domination by her new husband forms the narrative of Hannah Onoguwe's "The Housewife" as, step by step, Aramide faces more and more restrictions--on what she can wear, whom she can visit, and finally where she can go. But confined to her house, visited only by the generator repairman, and allowed out only to have her fidelity tested by priests, Aramide discovers ways to subvert her husband's authority. Onoguwe's story brings surprise and delight in its lively telling. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-PatriciaBaker--RakingtheLizards.mp3 5:57 There is a woman raking lizards down from a tree. There is a family to care for. There are errands to run. Our narrator wages war against the lizards who return each day, undefeated, but she fights other things, too, in a much more complicated battle. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-PatriciaBaker--RakingtheLizards.mp3 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:06:10 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThere is a woman raking lizards down from a tree. There is a family to care for. There are errands to run. Our narrator wages war against the lizards who return each day, undefeated, but she fights other things, too, in a much more complicated battle.The Drum Literary MagazineThere is a woman raking lizards down from a tree. There is a family to care for. There are errands to run. Our narrator wages war against the lizards who return each day, undefeated, but she fights other things, too, in a much more complicated battle. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jo-AnnBekker--Riptide.mp3 6:44 The narrator of Jo-Ann Bekker's "Riptide" insists we can believe her. 'Believe me when I tell you,' she says, many times. The story asks us whether we can trust this tale of infidelity, and whether even the woman telling us the story is certain of anything beyond the strong pull of desire. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jo-AnnBekker--Riptide.mp3 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:05:34 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe narrator of Jo-Ann Bekker's "Riptide" insists we can believe her. 'Believe me when I tell you,' she says, many times. The story asks us whether we can trust this tale of infidelity, and whether even the woman telling us the story is certain of anything beyond the strong pull of desire.The Drum Literary MagazineThe narrator of Jo-Ann Bekker's "Riptide" insists we can believe her. 'Believe me when I tell you,' she says, many times. The story asks us whether we can trust this tale of infidelity, and whether even the woman telling us the story is certain of anything beyond the strong pull of desire. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AlysiaAbbott--LettingHimGo.mp3 7:45 Alysia Abbott's essay tells the story of romantic risk--the risk of letting someone go in the hope and belief not only that it's the right thing to do, but also that it may be the only way to hold on. A Cat Power song, a striped shirt, and a Ukrainian restaurant all play a role in this tale of love. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AlysiaAbbott--LettingHimGo.mp3 Wed, 14 Dec 2016 17:04:56 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoAlysia Abbott's essay tells the story of romantic risk--the risk of letting someone go in the hope and belief not only that it's the right thing to do, but also that it may be the only way to hold on. A Cat Power song, a striped shirt, and a Ukrainian restaurant all play a role in this tale of love.The Drum Literary MagazineAlysia Abbott's essay tells the story of romantic risk--the risk of letting someone go in the hope and belief not only that it's the right thing to do, but also that it may be the only way to hold on. A Cat Power song, a striped shirt, and a Ukrainian restaurant all play a role in this tale of love. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CharlieWatts--FiveWishes.mp3 16:15 "Five Wishes" unfolds in as many episodes, each one telling a linked variation on a tale of a boy, his mother and father, a stream, a shovel, and a piece of purple quartz. Taken together, these episodes are like facets on a stone, revealing new insights on this little family while at the same time allowing us to see the heart of the story. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CharlieWatts--FiveWishes.mp3 Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:12:58 EDT The Drum Literary Magazineno"Five Wishes" unfolds in as many episodes, each one telling a linked variation on a tale of a boy, his mother and father, a stream, a shovel, and a piece of purple quartz. Taken together, these episodes are like facets on a stone, revealing new insights on this little family while at the same time allowing us to see the heart of the story.The Drum Literary Magazine"Five Wishes" unfolds in as many episodes, each one telling a linked variation on a tale of a boy, his mother and father, a stream, a shovel, and a piece of purple quartz. Taken together, these episodes are like facets on a stone, revealing new insights on this little family while at the same time allowing us to see the heart of the story. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ChristiCraig--InTexas.mp3 8:07 In her essay "In Texas," Christi Craig recalls her teenaged self facing a dilemma of faith and family. Should she admit to her grandmother that she cannot speak in tongues, or should she pretend she can so as not to reveal her distance from the religion that has always bound them together? Looking back, Craig examines the connections that have endured. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ChristiCraig--InTexas.mp3 Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:53:31 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn her essay "In Texas," Christi Craig recalls her teenaged self facing a dilemma of faith and family. Should she admit to her grandmother that she cannot speak in tongues, or should she pretend she can so as not to reveal her distance from the religion that has always bound them together? Looking back, Craig examines the connections that have endured.The Drum Literary MagazineIn her essay "In Texas," Christi Craig recalls her teenaged self facing a dilemma of faith and family. Should she admit to her grandmother that she cannot speak in tongues, or should she pretend she can so as not to reveal her distance from the religion that has always bound them together? Looking back, Craig examines the connections that have endured. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AineGreaney--TheManontheTrain.mp3 22:07 A train makes the perfect setting for this story about a woman in limbo--between jobs, between countries and cultures, between homes. Aine Greaney's "The Man on the Train" turns a conversation with a stranger into a study of belonging, as Lorna, Irish and recently arrived from her home in England, travels into Boston from her sister's suburban home. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AineGreaney--TheManontheTrain.mp3 Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:19:22 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA train makes the perfect setting for this story about a woman in limbo--between jobs, between countries and cultures, between homes. Aine Greaney's "The Man on the Train" turns a conversation with a stranger into a study of belonging, as Lorna, Irish and recently arrived from her home in England, travels into Boston from her sister's suburban home.The Drum Literary MagazineA train makes the perfect setting for this story about a woman in limbo--between jobs, between countries and cultures, between homes. Aine Greaney's "The Man on the Train" turns a conversation with a stranger into a study of belonging, as Lorna, Irish and recently arrived from her home in England, travels into Boston from her sister's suburban home. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Skyfaring_FinaLL.mp3 22:16 Mark Vanhoenacker reads excerpts from his recent book SKYFARING. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, family, and physics, the book asks us to reimagine what we--as pilots and as passengers--are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. www.skyfaring.com https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Skyfaring_FinaLL.mp3 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:36:27 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoMark Vanhoenacker reads excerpts from his recent book SKYFARING. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, family, and physics, the book asks us to reimagine what we--as pilots and as passengers--are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. www.skyfaring.comThe Drum Literary MagazineMark Vanhoenacker reads excerpts from his recent book SKYFARING. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, family, and physics, the book asks us to reimagine what we--as pilots and as passengers--are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. www.skyfaring.com https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-English_Final.mp3 15:14 In this subtle and tense story, James English sets us down among the complicated relationships within a family and a neighborhood and lets us watch a betrayal unfold. It's a variation of the tale of a stranger coming to town--only the stranger is already there, and the town is someone's family. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-English_Final.mp3 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:34:31 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn this subtle and tense story, James English sets us down among the complicated relationships within a family and a neighborhood and lets us watch a betrayal unfold. It's a variation of the tale of a stranger coming to town--only the stranger is already there, and the town is someone's family.The Drum Literary MagazineIn this subtle and tense story, James English sets us down among the complicated relationships within a family and a neighborhood and lets us watch a betrayal unfold. It's a variation of the tale of a stranger coming to town--only the stranger is already there, and the town is someone's family. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Taylor_FinaLL.mp3 20:38 Tess Taylor reads four poems and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about how her poems originate and about her new collection Work and Days. Tendinitis, farm work, Hesiod, and hearing music in a phrase--all these and more topics come up in conversation. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Taylor_FinaLL.mp3 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:49:47 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoTess Taylor reads four poems and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about how her poems originate and about her new collection Work and Days. Tendinitis, farm work, Hesiod, and hearing music in a phrase--all these and more topics come up in conversation.The Drum Literary MagazineTess Taylor reads four poems and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about how her poems originate and about her new collection Work and Days. Tendinitis, farm work, Hesiod, and hearing music in a phrase--all these and more topics come up in conversation. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-TryitonForSize_Final.mp3 4:12 Cumi Ikeda's essay explores identity and race through the lyrical rhythms of poetry. The essay asks us to contemplate how we see one another and how we see ourselves--how we exist through and beyond categories. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-TryitonForSize_Final.mp3 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:43:58 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoCumi Ikeda's essay explores identity and race through the lyrical rhythms of poetry. The essay asks us to contemplate how we see one another and how we see ourselves--how we exist through and beyond categories.The Drum Literary MagazineCumi Ikeda's essay explores identity and race through the lyrical rhythms of poetry. The essay asks us to contemplate how we see one another and how we see ourselves--how we exist through and beyond categories. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-KLPereira--TheChildrensHouse.mp3 3:54 A group of children and their slightly inattentive parents are the time-honored ingredients for narrative mischief. In KL Pereira's "The Children's House," the mischief involves the slipping and sliding boundaries between one space and another, one family and another, one person and another. Pereira evokes an eerily calm world in which families and identities can be pilfered and misplaced as easily as an object from a mantlepiece. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-KLPereira--TheChildrensHouse.mp3 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:57:22 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA group of children and their slightly inattentive parents are the time-honored ingredients for narrative mischief. In KL Pereira's "The Children's House," the mischief involves the slipping and sliding boundaries between one space and another, one family and another, one person and another. Pereira evokes an eerily calm world in which families and identities can be pilfered and misplaced as easily as an object from a mantlepiece.The Drum Literary MagazineA group of children and their slightly inattentive parents are the time-honored ingredients for narrative mischief. In KL Pereira's "The Children's House," the mischief involves the slipping and sliding boundaries between one space and another, one family and another, one person and another. Pereira evokes an eerily calm world in which families and identities can be pilfered and misplaced as easily as an object from a mantlepiece. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MelanieSenn--TheArtofDrummingBadly.mp3 11:17 To hear Melanie Senn tell it, she is not a good drummer. But what matters more than her musical and percussive talent is her skill in telling the story of how she took to the drums--at first as a way to connect to her musician husband, and then as a way to experience delight. In "The Art of Drumming Badly," Senn shares her joy in learning something new and in learning not to care about inhibitions and expectations. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MelanieSenn--TheArtofDrummingBadly.mp3 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:49:46 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoTo hear Melanie Senn tell it, she is not a good drummer. But what matters more than her musical and percussive talent is her skill in telling the story of how she took to the drums--at first as a way to connect to her musician husband, and then as a way to experience delight. In "The Art of Drumming Badly," Senn shares her joy in learning something new and in learning not to care about inhibitions and expectations.The Drum Literary MagazineTo hear Melanie Senn tell it, she is not a good drummer. But what matters more than her musical and percussive talent is her skill in telling the story of how she took to the drums--at first as a way to connect to her musician husband, and then as a way to experience delight. In "The Art of Drumming Badly," Senn shares her joy in learning something new and in learning not to care about inhibitions and expectations. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CatherineElcik--WhatTheDoctorTaughtMe.mp3 16:40 When family crises buffeted author Catherine Elcik with grief and stress, she found solace in the unlikeliest of places: Doctor Who. Or perhaps not so unlikely. For from this television program about time-shifting and agelessness and loss and endurance, Elcik learned powerful lessons about coping with the thieveries of illness and death. In this beautiful essay, Elcik offers wisdom to all of us--Whovians or not. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CatherineElcik--WhatTheDoctorTaughtMe.mp3 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:09:20 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoWhen family crises buffeted author Catherine Elcik with grief and stress, she found solace in the unlikeliest of places: Doctor Who. Or perhaps not so unlikely. For from this television program about time-shifting and agelessness and loss and endurance, Elcik learned powerful lessons about coping with the thieveries of illness and death. In this beautiful essay, Elcik offers wisdom to all of us--Whovians or not.The Drum Literary MagazineWhen family crises buffeted author Catherine Elcik with grief and stress, she found solace in the unlikeliest of places: Doctor Who. Or perhaps not so unlikely. For from this television program about time-shifting and agelessness and loss and endurance, Elcik learned powerful lessons about coping with the thieveries of illness and death. In this beautiful essay, Elcik offers wisdom to all of us--Whovians or not. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum1632-967.mp3 12:09 The accidental meeting of former lovers shapes Daniel Higgins' "Some Plastic City Beyond." Told mostly through dialogue, the story offers us the careful cadences of two people negotiating old wounds and new discoveries. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum1632-967.mp3 Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:06:01 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe accidental meeting of former lovers shapes Daniel Higgins' "Some Plastic City Beyond." Told mostly through dialogue, the story offers us the careful cadences of two people negotiating old wounds and new discoveries.The Drum Literary MagazineThe accidental meeting of former lovers shapes Daniel Higgins' "Some Plastic City Beyond." Told mostly through dialogue, the story offers us the careful cadences of two people negotiating old wounds and new discoveries. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-KatieDePasquale--WhatTheSpiritRabbitsKnow.mp3 7:22 An earthquake shakes the narrator's world just as she is shocked by news of a friend's death. But it's in the violence done to the natural order that she registers her loss. Tending for a rabbit, the narrator of Katie DePasquale's "What The Spirit Rabbits Know" comes to understand some part of what makes us mortal and alive, what gives us a fragile resilience. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-KatieDePasquale--WhatTheSpiritRabbitsKnow.mp3 Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:44:12 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoAn earthquake shakes the narrator's world just as she is shocked by news of a friend's death. But it's in the violence done to the natural order that she registers her loss. Tending for a rabbit, the narrator of Katie DePasquale's "What The Spirit Rabbits Know" comes to understand some part of what makes us mortal and alive, what gives us a fragile resilience.The Drum Literary MagazineAn earthquake shakes the narrator's world just as she is shocked by news of a friend's death. But it's in the violence done to the natural order that she registers her loss. Tending for a rabbit, the narrator of Katie DePasquale's "What The Spirit Rabbits Know" comes to understand some part of what makes us mortal and alive, what gives us a fragile resilience. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MajorJackson--ThreePoems.mp3 6:50 Major Jackson reads three poems from his latest collection Roll Deep: "Cries and Whispers," "Mighty Pawns," and "Cordoba: Mezquita". The Drum's Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur introduces the poems. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MajorJackson--ThreePoems.mp3 Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:43:26 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoMajor Jackson reads three poems from his latest collection Roll Deep: "Cries and Whispers," "Mighty Pawns," and "Cordoba: Mezquita". The Drum's Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur introduces the poems.The Drum Literary MagazineMajor Jackson reads three poems from his latest collection Roll Deep: "Cries and Whispers," "Mighty Pawns," and "Cordoba: Mezquita". The Drum's Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur introduces the poems. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JaneFlett--Monsters.mp3 19:54 Sermonette and Tom meet at a concert. Tom is at the mic. Sermonette is watching. They go on to skirmish and flirt, resisting the monsters of Jane Flett's title even as those monsters grow within them. The narrative seethes with passion and inventive language as it takes us through this richly unconventional love story. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JaneFlett--Monsters.mp3 Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:40:48 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoSermonette and Tom meet at a concert. Tom is at the mic. Sermonette is watching. They go on to skirmish and flirt, resisting the monsters of Jane Flett's title even as those monsters grow within them. The narrative seethes with passion and inventive language as it takes us through this richly unconventional love story.The Drum Literary MagazineSermonette and Tom meet at a concert. Tom is at the mic. Sermonette is watching. They go on to skirmish and flirt, resisting the monsters of Jane Flett's title even as those monsters grow within them. The narrative seethes with passion and inventive language as it takes us through this richly unconventional love story. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-S.E.Clark--Foxes.mp3 9:33 S. E. Clark's "Foxes" places us in an unsettling world part fairy tale, part parable, in which the innocent and the sinister battle in the lives of children. Clark's spare prose tells the tale of a small community preyed upon in subtle ways by the story's eponymous foxes. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-S.E.Clark--Foxes.mp3 Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:27:38 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoS. E. Clark's "Foxes" places us in an unsettling world part fairy tale, part parable, in which the innocent and the sinister battle in the lives of children. Clark's spare prose tells the tale of a small community preyed upon in subtle ways by the story's eponymous foxes.The Drum Literary MagazineS. E. Clark's "Foxes" places us in an unsettling world part fairy tale, part parable, in which the innocent and the sinister battle in the lives of children. Clark's spare prose tells the tale of a small community preyed upon in subtle ways by the story's eponymous foxes. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum7171-950.mp3 5:57 Whether you have your Thanksgiving in a restaurant or at an extended family table, for better or for worse, you can't escape the food. Thanksgiving is our most Proustian holiday, when scents of one relative's marshmallowed yams or another's oregano-dressed potatoes will evoke memories of times, places, and people, absent or near. Eson Kim's "Spice Memory," published in The Drum this past July, ponders Kim's connection to her mother through her mother's recipes, and her efforts to sustain that sometimes fragile bond through cooking. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum7171-950.mp3 Thu, 19 Nov 2015 16:05:38 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoWhether you have your Thanksgiving in a restaurant or at an extended family table, for better or for worse, you can't escape the food. Thanksgiving is our most Proustian holiday, when scents of one relative's marshmallowed yams or another's oregano-dressed potatoes will evoke memories of times, places, and people, absent or near. Eson Kim's "Spice Memory," published in The Drum this past July, ponders Kim's connection to her mother through her mother's recipes, and her efforts to sustain that sometimes fragile bond through cooking.The Drum Literary MagazineWhether you have your Thanksgiving in a restaurant or at an extended family table, for better or for worse, you can't escape the food. Thanksgiving is our most Proustian holiday, when scents of one relative's marshmallowed yams or another's oregano-dressed potatoes will evoke memories of times, places, and people, absent or near. Eson Kim's "Spice Memory," published in The Drum this past July, ponders Kim's connection to her mother through her mother's recipes, and her efforts to sustain that sometimes fragile bond through cooking. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum6720-949.mp3 12:37 Serotonin notwithstanding, Thanksgiving makes us hungry. Despite the torpor of the holiday, we become agitated, restless. Maria Mutch's "Appetites" immerses us in the restless and agitated world of a journey like so many on Thanksgiving: a trip to grandmother's house. In this short story first audio-published in The Drum in May 2014, Mutch revises the old tale, skewing fairy-tale familiarity with modern distortions. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum6720-949.mp3 Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:57:50 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoSerotonin notwithstanding, Thanksgiving makes us hungry. Despite the torpor of the holiday, we become agitated, restless. Maria Mutch's "Appetites" immerses us in the restless and agitated world of a journey like so many on Thanksgiving: a trip to grandmother's house. In this short story first audio-published in The Drum in May 2014, Mutch revises the old tale, skewing fairy-tale familiarity with modern distortions.The Drum Literary MagazineSerotonin notwithstanding, Thanksgiving makes us hungry. Despite the torpor of the holiday, we become agitated, restless. Maria Mutch's "Appetites" immerses us in the restless and agitated world of a journey like so many on Thanksgiving: a trip to grandmother's house. In this short story first audio-published in The Drum in May 2014, Mutch revises the old tale, skewing fairy-tale familiarity with modern distortions. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-sounds-Steve_Macone--Who-squo-s_Walking_Who_EDIT.mp3 1:17 There are those who prepare for Thanksgiving weeks in advance. And there are those, like Steve Macone, who do their shopping the day before this major American holiday. His essay "Who's Walking Who," first audio-published in our October 2011 issue, finds Macone at the Somerville, Massachusetts Market Basket on Thanksgiving Wednesday. Hilarity--and insight--ensue. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-sounds-Steve_Macone--Who-squo-s_Walking_Who_EDIT.mp3 Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:54:11 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThere are those who prepare for Thanksgiving weeks in advance. And there are those, like Steve Macone, who do their shopping the day before this major American holiday. His essay "Who's Walking Who," first audio-published in our October 2011 issue, finds Macone at the Somerville, Massachusetts Market Basket on Thanksgiving Wednesday. Hilarity--and insight--ensue.The Drum Literary MagazineThere are those who prepare for Thanksgiving weeks in advance. And there are those, like Steve Macone, who do their shopping the day before this major American holiday. His essay "Who's Walking Who," first audio-published in our October 2011 issue, finds Macone at the Somerville, Massachusetts Market Basket on Thanksgiving Wednesday. Hilarity--and insight--ensue. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum5974-947.mp3 11:04 Travel is supposed to be so broadening, in the words of Sinclair Lewis. But anyone embarking on a Thanksgiving-motivated journey knows that travel can be aggravating, maddening, and bewildering too. In an essay first audio-published in The Drum in July 2013, Jane Hamilton recounts a trip with her husband when the combined forces of the TSA and a Ziploc bag threatened to undo them. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum5974-947.mp3 Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:44:37 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoTravel is supposed to be so broadening, in the words of Sinclair Lewis. But anyone embarking on a Thanksgiving-motivated journey knows that travel can be aggravating, maddening, and bewildering too. In an essay first audio-published in The Drum in July 2013, Jane Hamilton recounts a trip with her husband when the combined forces of the TSA and a Ziploc bag threatened to undo them.The Drum Literary MagazineTravel is supposed to be so broadening, in the words of Sinclair Lewis. But anyone embarking on a Thanksgiving-motivated journey knows that travel can be aggravating, maddening, and bewildering too. In an essay first audio-published in The Drum in July 2013, Jane Hamilton recounts a trip with her husband when the combined forces of the TSA and a Ziploc bag threatened to undo them. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum6509-945.mp3 8:39 In this expanded version of her Dispatch piece from our September issue, Kyla Hanington writes of a road trip across Canada with her husband and children. As she moves eastward with her family, Hanington is driven by hope and curiosity, wondering if their eventual destination of Saskatchewan will yield what she seeks. "Saskatchewan" was recorded in Dispatch style, with ambient noise. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum6509-945.mp3 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:57:59 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn this expanded version of her Dispatch piece from our September issue, Kyla Hanington writes of a road trip across Canada with her husband and children. As she moves eastward with her family, Hanington is driven by hope and curiosity, wondering if their eventual destination of Saskatchewan will yield what she seeks. "Saskatchewan" was recorded in Dispatch style, with ambient noise.The Drum Literary MagazineIn this expanded version of her Dispatch piece from our September issue, Kyla Hanington writes of a road trip across Canada with her husband and children. As she moves eastward with her family, Hanington is driven by hope and curiosity, wondering if their eventual destination of Saskatchewan will yield what she seeks. "Saskatchewan" was recorded in Dispatch style, with ambient noise. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JuliaLichtblau--MiBrooklyn.mp3 16:45 A Brooklyn family wrestles with challenges in which the mundane swiftly becomes momentous. One child's impish use of a dried legume, another's need for order; a father's return from Iraq, a mother's rush to the emergency room: events and experiences combine in a tragicomic turmoil. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JuliaLichtblau--MiBrooklyn.mp3 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:48:29 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA Brooklyn family wrestles with challenges in which the mundane swiftly becomes momentous. One child's impish use of a dried legume, another's need for order; a father's return from Iraq, a mother's rush to the emergency room: events and experiences combine in a tragicomic turmoil.The Drum Literary MagazineA Brooklyn family wrestles with challenges in which the mundane swiftly becomes momentous. One child's impish use of a dried legume, another's need for order; a father's return from Iraq, a mother's rush to the emergency room: events and experiences combine in a tragicomic turmoil. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JamesClaffey--FishandSpoons.mp3 9:02 A lesson in fly fishing focuses the relationship between an Irish father and son. Looking for ways to connect, a son sees his own value weighed against everything else his father holds more beautiful. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JamesClaffey--FishandSpoons.mp3 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:36:07 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA lesson in fly fishing focuses the relationship between an Irish father and son. Looking for ways to connect, a son sees his own value weighed against everything else his father holds more beautiful.The Drum Literary MagazineA lesson in fly fishing focuses the relationship between an Irish father and son. Looking for ways to connect, a son sees his own value weighed against everything else his father holds more beautiful. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum6143-939.mp3 23:33 Jennifer De Leon's "Home Movie" is the Boston Book Festival's 2015 selection for the One City One Story project. "Home Movie" follows Eduardo and his wife Linda on the day he records their life in America for their family in Guatemala, while a crisis strains the bonds tying the young couple together and to their adopted country. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum6143-939.mp3 Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:27:38 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJennifer De Leon's "Home Movie" is the Boston Book Festival's 2015 selection for the One City One Story project. "Home Movie" follows Eduardo and his wife Linda on the day he records their life in America for their family in Guatemala, while a crisis strains the bonds tying the young couple together and to their adopted country.The Drum Literary MagazineJennifer De Leon's "Home Movie" is the Boston Book Festival's 2015 selection for the One City One Story project. "Home Movie" follows Eduardo and his wife Linda on the day he records their life in America for their family in Guatemala, while a crisis strains the bonds tying the young couple together and to their adopted country. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-HenrietteLazaridis--DispatchPapingo.mp3 5:23 At the festival of Profitis Elias in Papingo, Greece, Henriette Lazaridis describes the celebration in the church square, and the always mournful revelry so apt for this summer's political upheaval. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-HenrietteLazaridis--DispatchPapingo.mp3 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:19:40 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAt the festival of Profitis Elias in Papingo, Greece, Henriette Lazaridis describes the celebration in the church square, and the always mournful revelry so apt for this summer's political upheaval.The Drum Literary MagazineAt the festival of Profitis Elias in Papingo, Greece, Henriette Lazaridis describes the celebration in the church square, and the always mournful revelry so apt for this summer's political upheaval. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RishiReddi--DispatchTelanganaIndia.mp3 5:03 From the Shishu Vihar orphanage in Telangana, Rishi Reddi recounts her visits to the children during the holiday of Rhakhi Bandan--and to one boy in particular whom she and her daughter prepare to welcome to their family. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RishiReddi--DispatchTelanganaIndia.mp3 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:04:22 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoFrom the Shishu Vihar orphanage in Telangana, Rishi Reddi recounts her visits to the children during the holiday of Rhakhi Bandan--and to one boy in particular whom she and her daughter prepare to welcome to their family.The Drum Literary MagazineFrom the Shishu Vihar orphanage in Telangana, Rishi Reddi recounts her visits to the children during the holiday of Rhakhi Bandan--and to one boy in particular whom she and her daughter prepare to welcome to their family. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-KylaHanington--DispatchSaskatchewan.mp3 7:43 A road trip across Canada settles in and on Saskatchewan as Kyla Haninhgton speaks of the pull of that province's open spaces, the tug even of its place names, its evocation of belonging. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-KylaHanington--DispatchSaskatchewan.mp3 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:01:15 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA road trip across Canada settles in and on Saskatchewan as Kyla Haninhgton speaks of the pull of that province's open spaces, the tug even of its place names, its evocation of belonging.The Drum Literary MagazineA road trip across Canada settles in and on Saskatchewan as Kyla Haninhgton speaks of the pull of that province's open spaces, the tug even of its place names, its evocation of belonging. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AlisonMcGhee--DispatchDummerston.mp3 4:45 From a clearing in southern Vermont, Alison McGhee talks about the invention of a life, summoned from an idea and fashioned from the woods, the river rocks, and in the tiny house that rises up on the land. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AlisonMcGhee--DispatchDummerston.mp3 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:44:26 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoFrom a clearing in southern Vermont, Alison McGhee talks about the invention of a life, summoned from an idea and fashioned from the woods, the river rocks, and in the tiny house that rises up on the land.The Drum Literary MagazineFrom a clearing in southern Vermont, Alison McGhee talks about the invention of a life, summoned from an idea and fashioned from the woods, the river rocks, and in the tiny house that rises up on the land. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LenoreMyka--LessonsinRomanian.mp3 17:32 A young woman teaching English to her Romanian students is repaid with profound lessons of her own--in language and in the nuances of love, hope, and expectation. Interspersed with Romanian words and phrases, Lenore Myka's "Lessons in Romanian" slides its listener into a place between what is known and new, familiar and exotic. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LenoreMyka--LessonsinRomanian.mp3 Sun, 28 Jun 2015 10:22:11 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA young woman teaching English to her Romanian students is repaid with profound lessons of her own--in language and in the nuances of love, hope, and expectation. Interspersed with Romanian words and phrases, Lenore Myka's "Lessons in Romanian" slides its listener into a place between what is known and new, familiar and exotic.The Drum Literary MagazineA young woman teaching English to her Romanian students is repaid with profound lessons of her own--in language and in the nuances of love, hope, and expectation. Interspersed with Romanian words and phrases, Lenore Myka's "Lessons in Romanian" slides its listener into a place between what is known and new, familiar and exotic. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EsonKim--SpiceMemory.mp3 5:57 Eson Kim ponders the language of spices and scents that passes between her and her mother as Kim tries to learn her mother's recipes. Kim evokes the power of the ingredients to summon memories and connection, and contemplates the poignant difficulty of mastering what her mother knows. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EsonKim--SpiceMemory.mp3 Sun, 28 Jun 2015 10:11:14 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoEson Kim ponders the language of spices and scents that passes between her and her mother as Kim tries to learn her mother's recipes. Kim evokes the power of the ingredients to summon memories and connection, and contemplates the poignant difficulty of mastering what her mother knows.The Drum Literary MagazineEson Kim ponders the language of spices and scents that passes between her and her mother as Kim tries to learn her mother's recipes. Kim evokes the power of the ingredients to summon memories and connection, and contemplates the poignant difficulty of mastering what her mother knows. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RonMacLean--HowToClubAFish.mp3 3:27 A young woman sees lessons in survival and violence handed down on a frozen Canadian lake. Ron MacLean's "How to Club A Fish" offers a vivid portrait of one family's dynamics in the world of a cramped cabin. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RonMacLean--HowToClubAFish.mp3 Sun, 28 Jun 2015 10:09:23 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA young woman sees lessons in survival and violence handed down on a frozen Canadian lake. Ron MacLean's "How to Club A Fish" offers a vivid portrait of one family's dynamics in the world of a cramped cabin.The Drum Literary MagazineA young woman sees lessons in survival and violence handed down on a frozen Canadian lake. Ron MacLean's "How to Club A Fish" offers a vivid portrait of one family's dynamics in the world of a cramped cabin. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BethWoodcomePlatow--WhentoLeap.mp3 17:26 Beth Woodcome Platow reads her poem “When to Leap” and talks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about Ginsburg’s "Howl", being direct and her obsession with design. In a gripping, unadorned voice, her poem explores the instincts of both body and heart. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BethWoodcomePlatow--WhentoLeap.mp3 Sun, 28 Jun 2015 10:07:58 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoBeth Woodcome Platow reads her poem “When to Leap” and talks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about Ginsburg’s "Howl", being direct and her obsession with design. In a gripping, unadorned voice, her poem explores the instincts of both body and heart.The Drum Literary MagazineBeth Woodcome Platow reads her poem “When to Leap” and talks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about Ginsburg’s "Howl", being direct and her obsession with design. In a gripping, unadorned voice, her poem explores the instincts of both body and heart. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LindaCutting--WhatMatters.mp3 3:01 A hospital fundraiser is the scene of a chance meeting in Linda Cutting's "What Matters". Ailments small and large spark a lighthearted flirtation that leads a man and a woman to connect. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LindaCutting--WhatMatters.mp3 Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:57:31 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA hospital fundraiser is the scene of a chance meeting in Linda Cutting's "What Matters". Ailments small and large spark a lighthearted flirtation that leads a man and a woman to connect.The Drum Literary MagazineA hospital fundraiser is the scene of a chance meeting in Linda Cutting's "What Matters". Ailments small and large spark a lighthearted flirtation that leads a man and a woman to connect. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LouiseHoughton--Bluebird.mp3 6:46 In "Bluebird," Louise Houghton explores the fraught relationship between two siblings, a younger sister and her older brother. This is sibling rivalry rendered with nuance and yielding to the author's curiosity and insight, set in the specifics of an English childhood. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LouiseHoughton--Bluebird.mp3 Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:53:39 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn "Bluebird," Louise Houghton explores the fraught relationship between two siblings, a younger sister and her older brother. This is sibling rivalry rendered with nuance and yielding to the author's curiosity and insight, set in the specifics of an English childhood.The Drum Literary MagazineIn "Bluebird," Louise Houghton explores the fraught relationship between two siblings, a younger sister and her older brother. This is sibling rivalry rendered with nuance and yielding to the author's curiosity and insight, set in the specifics of an English childhood. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-StephenDorneman--ColdWinter.mp3 2:20 We can arm ourselves against cold and snow, but how do we defend against a family member's death? Stephen Dorneman's "Cold Winter" evokes the talismanic power of all our winter equipment and hints at precisely where it can fail to protect us. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-StephenDorneman--ColdWinter.mp3 Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:48:56 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoWe can arm ourselves against cold and snow, but how do we defend against a family member's death? Stephen Dorneman's "Cold Winter" evokes the talismanic power of all our winter equipment and hints at precisely where it can fail to protect us.The Drum Literary MagazineWe can arm ourselves against cold and snow, but how do we defend against a family member's death? Stephen Dorneman's "Cold Winter" evokes the talismanic power of all our winter equipment and hints at precisely where it can fail to protect us. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-StaceyResnikoff--ThingsinBoxes.mp3 3:47 When she and her partner pack up to move, a woman discovers she has brought to her new home more than just the objects she has boxed. Stacey Resnikoff's "Things in Boxes" is a tidy contemplation of what we own, what we collect, and what we discover as we move on. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-StaceyResnikoff--ThingsinBoxes.mp3 Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:40:52 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoWhen she and her partner pack up to move, a woman discovers she has brought to her new home more than just the objects she has boxed. Stacey Resnikoff's "Things in Boxes" is a tidy contemplation of what we own, what we collect, and what we discover as we move on.The Drum Literary MagazineWhen she and her partner pack up to move, a woman discovers she has brought to her new home more than just the objects she has boxed. Stacey Resnikoff's "Things in Boxes" is a tidy contemplation of what we own, what we collect, and what we discover as we move on. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BrianBurt--poemsandaninterview.mp3 17:39 Brian Burt reads his poem "Ars Poetica" and discusses its origin and themes with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur. Burt talks about the registers of poetic language, the tradition of the ars poetica, Rilke, and his passion for bicycles and cycling. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BrianBurt--poemsandaninterview.mp3 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:20:34 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoBrian Burt reads his poem "Ars Poetica" and discusses its origin and themes with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur. Burt talks about the registers of poetic language, the tradition of the ars poetica, Rilke, and his passion for bicycles and cycling.The Drum Literary MagazineBrian Burt reads his poem "Ars Poetica" and discusses its origin and themes with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur. Burt talks about the registers of poetic language, the tradition of the ars poetica, Rilke, and his passion for bicycles and cycling. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-GilmoreTamny--GretchenWasAbducted.mp3 11:42 In "Gretchen Was Abducted," a woman recalls with wry humor the night she was taken in error from a slumber party. Gilmore Tamny's short story offers a dispassionate exploration of haplessness and desperation, adventure and survival. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-GilmoreTamny--GretchenWasAbducted.mp3 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:19:55 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn "Gretchen Was Abducted," a woman recalls with wry humor the night she was taken in error from a slumber party. Gilmore Tamny's short story offers a dispassionate exploration of haplessness and desperation, adventure and survival.The Drum Literary MagazineIn "Gretchen Was Abducted," a woman recalls with wry humor the night she was taken in error from a slumber party. Gilmore Tamny's short story offers a dispassionate exploration of haplessness and desperation, adventure and survival. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-TracyHahn-Burkett--CoverStory.mp3 6:37 A child's complicated response to complicated power--her own and that of her parents--underlies the critical moment Tracy Hahn-Burkett narrates in her short story "Cover Story". Hahn-Burkett's fiction is a terse investigation of the violence in self-assertion. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-TracyHahn-Burkett--CoverStory.mp3 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:01:41 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA child's complicated response to complicated power--her own and that of her parents--underlies the critical moment Tracy Hahn-Burkett narrates in her short story "Cover Story". Hahn-Burkett's fiction is a terse investigation of the violence in self-assertion.The Drum Literary MagazineA child's complicated response to complicated power--her own and that of her parents--underlies the critical moment Tracy Hahn-Burkett narrates in her short story "Cover Story". Hahn-Burkett's fiction is a terse investigation of the violence in self-assertion. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EthanGilsdorf--MeAndMyOrion.mp3 6:05 Ethan Gilsdorf finds perspective and a sense of belonging in the night sky. His essay "Me And My Orion" recalls the stars in that constellation and links him, and us, to the vast movements and the stillness above us. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EthanGilsdorf--MeAndMyOrion.mp3 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 10:03:26 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoEthan Gilsdorf finds perspective and a sense of belonging in the night sky. His essay "Me And My Orion" recalls the stars in that constellation and links him, and us, to the vast movements and the stillness above us.The Drum Literary MagazineEthan Gilsdorf finds perspective and a sense of belonging in the night sky. His essay "Me And My Orion" recalls the stars in that constellation and links him, and us, to the vast movements and the stillness above us. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CarrieGreenpoems.mp3 9:37 Carrie Green reads her poems "Cochina Rock" and "Test Drive" and answers Kirun Kapur's questions on a variety of topics--including the origins of her work, the experience of writing about historical subjects, and her non-poetry obsession (which features nests). https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CarrieGreenpoems.mp3 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:56:34 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoCarrie Green reads her poems "Cochina Rock" and "Test Drive" and answers Kirun Kapur's questions on a variety of topics--including the origins of her work, the experience of writing about historical subjects, and her non-poetry obsession (which features nests).The Drum Literary MagazineCarrie Green reads her poems "Cochina Rock" and "Test Drive" and answers Kirun Kapur's questions on a variety of topics--including the origins of her work, the experience of writing about historical subjects, and her non-poetry obsession (which features nests). https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-OneCityOneStory_JenniferHaighs_Sublimation_.mp3 27:24 Jennifer Haigh's "Sublimation" is the Boston Book Festival's choice for this year's One City One Story, a project to promote reading and to create community around a shared reading experience. "Sublimation" first appeared in the Spring 2014 issue of Ploughshares. Jennifer Haigh will appear at the Boston Book Festival on October 25 to discuss the story. To download the audio recording of "Sublimation," right-click on the download button beside the play button, and save the mp3 to your computer. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-OneCityOneStory_JenniferHaighs_Sublimation_.mp3 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:53:57 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJennifer Haigh's "Sublimation" is the Boston Book Festival's choice for this year's One City One Story, a project to promote reading and to create community around a shared reading experience. "Sublimation" first appeared in the Spring 2014 issue of Ploughshares. Jennifer Haigh will appear at the Boston Book Festival on October 25 to discuss the story. To download the audio recording of "Sublimation," right-click on the download button beside the play button, and save the mp3 to your computer.The Drum Literary MagazineJennifer Haigh's "Sublimation" is the Boston Book Festival's choice for this year's One City One Story, a project to promote reading and to create community around a shared reading experience. "Sublimation" first appeared in the Spring 2014 issue of Ploughshares. Jennifer Haigh will appear at the Boston Book Festival on October 25 to discuss the story. To download the audio recording of "Sublimation," right-click on the download button beside the play button, and save the mp3 to your computer. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JenniferDeleon--LuckyWoman.mp3 3:42 De Leon writes movingly about her grandfather's seeking forgiveness from the woman he abandoned in Guatemala. In "Lucky Woman," Luisa, De Leon's grandmother, meets him upon his return, passing defiant judgment upon him. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JenniferDeleon--LuckyWoman.mp3 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:17:53 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoDe Leon writes movingly about her grandfather's seeking forgiveness from the woman he abandoned in Guatemala. In "Lucky Woman," Luisa, De Leon's grandmother, meets him upon his return, passing defiant judgment upon him.The Drum Literary MagazineDe Leon writes movingly about her grandfather's seeking forgiveness from the woman he abandoned in Guatemala. In "Lucky Woman," Luisa, De Leon's grandmother, meets him upon his return, passing defiant judgment upon him. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-StephenDorneman--Country-LineDancinginBridgeportCT.mp3 3:26 In Stephen Dorneman's "Country-Line Dancing in Bridgeport, CT," a aloof widower finds himself in bemused participation during an evening's unexpected dance. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-StephenDorneman--Country-LineDancinginBridgeportCT.mp3 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:12:22 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Stephen Dorneman's "Country-Line Dancing in Bridgeport, CT," a aloof widower finds himself in bemused participation during an evening's unexpected dance.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Stephen Dorneman's "Country-Line Dancing in Bridgeport, CT," a aloof widower finds himself in bemused participation during an evening's unexpected dance. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Hennick_Final2.mp3 2:34 In "A Thousand Cuts," Calvin Hennick turns a young boy's haircut into a taut revelation about the chaos of his mother's life, hinting at the history of this small family and intimating its perhaps ominous future. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Hennick_Final2.mp3 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:06:51 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn "A Thousand Cuts," Calvin Hennick turns a young boy's haircut into a taut revelation about the chaos of his mother's life, hinting at the history of this small family and intimating its perhaps ominous future.The Drum Literary MagazineIn "A Thousand Cuts," Calvin Hennick turns a young boy's haircut into a taut revelation about the chaos of his mother's life, hinting at the history of this small family and intimating its perhaps ominous future. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CaitlynKinsella--ItsMe.mp3 2:50 The careful parsing of a phone message leads to a blossoming but perplexing romance. Caitlyn Kinsella's "It's Me" finds humor and poignancy in the intricacies of interaction. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CaitlynKinsella--ItsMe.mp3 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 18:03:10 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe careful parsing of a phone message leads to a blossoming but perplexing romance. Caitlyn Kinsella's "It's Me" finds humor and poignancy in the intricacies of interaction.The Drum Literary MagazineThe careful parsing of a phone message leads to a blossoming but perplexing romance. Caitlyn Kinsella's "It's Me" finds humor and poignancy in the intricacies of interaction. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CarolSandel--BirthControl.mp3 3:46 A mother's wartime theories, two daughters' misunderstandings, and the issue of sexual control as it's wielded by a mother and a father: combat and choice resonate here in Carol Sandel's "Birth Control". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CarolSandel--BirthControl.mp3 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:59:18 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA mother's wartime theories, two daughters' misunderstandings, and the issue of sexual control as it's wielded by a mother and a father: combat and choice resonate here in Carol Sandel's "Birth Control".The Drum Literary MagazineA mother's wartime theories, two daughters' misunderstandings, and the issue of sexual control as it's wielded by a mother and a father: combat and choice resonate here in Carol Sandel's "Birth Control". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JoannaRakoffandEdanLepuckiatBrooklineBooksmith.mp3 49:11 Joanna Rakoff reads from My Salinger Year and Edan Lepucki reads from California at Brookline Booksmith. Listen in as these two writers read from their work and answer questions about driving through LA during a blackout that seems to presage apocalypse, about the experience of working in J.D. Salinger's agency, and about the shift from novel to memoir, third-person to first. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JoannaRakoffandEdanLepuckiatBrooklineBooksmith.mp3 Tue, 29 Jul 2014 21:47:27 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJoanna Rakoff reads from My Salinger Year and Edan Lepucki reads from California at Brookline Booksmith. Listen in as these two writers read from their work and answer questions about driving through LA during a blackout that seems to presage apocalypse, about the experience of working in J.D. Salinger's agency, and about the shift from novel to memoir, third-person to first.The Drum Literary MagazineJoanna Rakoff reads from My Salinger Year and Edan Lepucki reads from California at Brookline Booksmith. Listen in as these two writers read from their work and answer questions about driving through LA during a blackout that seems to presage apocalypse, about the experience of working in J.D. Salinger's agency, and about the shift from novel to memoir, third-person to first. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JamesArthur--Drone.mp3 8:54 "You must never make the mistake of believing that readers just want to be passive recipients of whatever it is you want to say." So says James Arthur in his conversation with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur. His poem "Drone" engages readers--and listeners--in thought-provoking exploration of power and threat. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JamesArthur--Drone.mp3 Mon, 21 Jul 2014 09:29:37 EDT The Drum Literary Magazineno"You must never make the mistake of believing that readers just want to be passive recipients of whatever it is you want to say." So says James Arthur in his conversation with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur. His poem "Drone" engages readers--and listeners--in thought-provoking exploration of power and threat.The Drum Literary Magazine"You must never make the mistake of believing that readers just want to be passive recipients of whatever it is you want to say." So says James Arthur in his conversation with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur. His poem "Drone" engages readers--and listeners--in thought-provoking exploration of power and threat. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CathiHanauer--excerptfromGone.mp3 9:50 A husband's disappearance while taking the babysitter home precipitates the crisis in this excerpt from Cathi Hanauer's novel Gone. Eve Adams embarks on a first day of her new normal, fending off inquiries from children surly and clueless, and navigating the too-zen-to-be-mean streets of her artsy Massachusetts town. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CathiHanauer--excerptfromGone.mp3 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 11:32:36 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA husband's disappearance while taking the babysitter home precipitates the crisis in this excerpt from Cathi Hanauer's novel Gone. Eve Adams embarks on a first day of her new normal, fending off inquiries from children surly and clueless, and navigating the too-zen-to-be-mean streets of her artsy Massachusetts town.The Drum Literary MagazineA husband's disappearance while taking the babysitter home precipitates the crisis in this excerpt from Cathi Hanauer's novel Gone. Eve Adams embarks on a first day of her new normal, fending off inquiries from children surly and clueless, and navigating the too-zen-to-be-mean streets of her artsy Massachusetts town. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-GregorySpatz--Brace.mp3 10:37 A boy's silence, a sister's bicycle and a "misaligned world with skewed meanings". Gregory Spatz' "Brace" immerses us in the consciousness of a narrator thinking about ruin and loss as he remembers a childhood aphasia, a freewheeling car, and the urge to make a physical mark on and within the world. When you listen to the whole story, you'll understand the title. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-GregorySpatz--Brace.mp3 Tue, 08 Jul 2014 19:12:46 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA boy's silence, a sister's bicycle and a "misaligned world with skewed meanings". Gregory Spatz' "Brace" immerses us in the consciousness of a narrator thinking about ruin and loss as he remembers a childhood aphasia, a freewheeling car, and the urge to make a physical mark on and within the world. When you listen to the whole story, you'll understand the title.The Drum Literary MagazineA boy's silence, a sister's bicycle and a "misaligned world with skewed meanings". Gregory Spatz' "Brace" immerses us in the consciousness of a narrator thinking about ruin and loss as he remembers a childhood aphasia, a freewheeling car, and the urge to make a physical mark on and within the world. When you listen to the whole story, you'll understand the title. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum0082-876.mp3 14:56 Susan Rich reads her poems "Tricks a Girl Can Do" and "Cloud Pharmacy"--and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about ekphrastic poetry, her discovery of photographer Hannah Maynard, and the pleasures of bicycling while reciting Elizabeth Bishop. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum0082-876.mp3 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:12:59 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoSusan Rich reads her poems "Tricks a Girl Can Do" and "Cloud Pharmacy"--and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about ekphrastic poetry, her discovery of photographer Hannah Maynard, and the pleasures of bicycling while reciting Elizabeth Bishop.The Drum Literary MagazineSusan Rich reads her poems "Tricks a Girl Can Do" and "Cloud Pharmacy"--and speaks with Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur about ekphrastic poetry, her discovery of photographer Hannah Maynard, and the pleasures of bicycling while reciting Elizabeth Bishop. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JoyCastro--ANotionITook.mp3 5:57 For a hundred dollars, a young woman jumps into the Rio Grande, a river so filthy, it's dyed blue for the tourists. Money, risk, and self-invention intersect in Joy Castro's "A Notion I Took" as the story's narrator thinks about what is at stake for her as she leaps and descends through the water. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JoyCastro--ANotionITook.mp3 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:38:05 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoFor a hundred dollars, a young woman jumps into the Rio Grande, a river so filthy, it's dyed blue for the tourists. Money, risk, and self-invention intersect in Joy Castro's "A Notion I Took" as the story's narrator thinks about what is at stake for her as she leaps and descends through the water.The Drum Literary MagazineFor a hundred dollars, a young woman jumps into the Rio Grande, a river so filthy, it's dyed blue for the tourists. Money, risk, and self-invention intersect in Joy Castro's "A Notion I Took" as the story's narrator thinks about what is at stake for her as she leaps and descends through the water. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-PeterHoDavies--Chance.mp3 12:31 Physics, hope, and speculation come together beautifully in this moving story about a couple dealing with the chance that their fetus has a rare genetic mutation. In "Chance," Peter Ho Davies raises complex questions about what is certain and what is random, and about how and if our efforts affect the course of our lives. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-PeterHoDavies--Chance.mp3 Mon, 09 Jun 2014 13:53:05 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoPhysics, hope, and speculation come together beautifully in this moving story about a couple dealing with the chance that their fetus has a rare genetic mutation. In "Chance," Peter Ho Davies raises complex questions about what is certain and what is random, and about how and if our efforts affect the course of our lives.The Drum Literary MagazinePhysics, hope, and speculation come together beautifully in this moving story about a couple dealing with the chance that their fetus has a rare genetic mutation. In "Chance," Peter Ho Davies raises complex questions about what is certain and what is random, and about how and if our efforts affect the course of our lives. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RoxaneGay--DoYouHaveaPlaceForMe.mp3 7:41 Two people meet at a half-way point between their homes and lives. But the encounter in Roxane Gay's "Do You Have a Place For Me" is no simple escape, but a shared confrontation--of the self, the body, and the heart. Gay's prose is both analytical--is this cheating?--and intensely figurative in this short and powerful story. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RoxaneGay--DoYouHaveaPlaceForMe.mp3 Mon, 02 Jun 2014 12:18:51 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoTwo people meet at a half-way point between their homes and lives. But the encounter in Roxane Gay's "Do You Have a Place For Me" is no simple escape, but a shared confrontation--of the self, the body, and the heart. Gay's prose is both analytical--is this cheating?--and intensely figurative in this short and powerful story.The Drum Literary MagazineTwo people meet at a half-way point between their homes and lives. But the encounter in Roxane Gay's "Do You Have a Place For Me" is no simple escape, but a shared confrontation--of the self, the body, and the heart. Gay's prose is both analytical--is this cheating?--and intensely figurative in this short and powerful story. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MariaMutch--Appetites.mp3 12:37 Maria Mutch offers a new take on the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood, setting this old story of violence, innocence, and sexuality in a strangely natural urban world. In "Appetites", Grandmother lives in an institution, and the wolves wear turtlenecks, and Red takes matters into her own hands. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MariaMutch--Appetites.mp3 Tue, 20 May 2014 09:25:26 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoMaria Mutch offers a new take on the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood, setting this old story of violence, innocence, and sexuality in a strangely natural urban world. In "Appetites", Grandmother lives in an institution, and the wolves wear turtlenecks, and Red takes matters into her own hands.The Drum Literary MagazineMaria Mutch offers a new take on the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood, setting this old story of violence, innocence, and sexuality in a strangely natural urban world. In "Appetites", Grandmother lives in an institution, and the wolves wear turtlenecks, and Red takes matters into her own hands. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MattBell--TheGamesTheyPlayed.mp3 4:35 These are not the fairy tales our mothers told us. The four episodes of Matt Bell's "The Games They Played" focus on Younger and Older, siblings whose rivalries offer an education in hidden and not-so-hidden violence. Bell experiments with the cadence and the content of fairy tales, making them at once new and ancient. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MattBell--TheGamesTheyPlayed.mp3 Mon, 12 May 2014 08:25:31 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThese are not the fairy tales our mothers told us. The four episodes of Matt Bell's "The Games They Played" focus on Younger and Older, siblings whose rivalries offer an education in hidden and not-so-hidden violence. Bell experiments with the cadence and the content of fairy tales, making them at once new and ancient.The Drum Literary MagazineThese are not the fairy tales our mothers told us. The four episodes of Matt Bell's "The Games They Played" focus on Younger and Older, siblings whose rivalries offer an education in hidden and not-so-hidden violence. Bell experiments with the cadence and the content of fairy tales, making them at once new and ancient. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LisaBorders--excerptfromTheFifty-FirstState.mp3 4:22 A handful of sentences form the opening chapter of Lisa Borders' novel The Fifty-First State, setting her characters on an inexorable course towards tragedy and connection, and sending her readers into a world of lush detail and intensely-felt emotion. Hallie and Josh Corson share a father but little else—until a grisly highway accident at the novel's outset leaves them both without parents. Forced to come together on the family's struggling tomato farm, Josh and Hallie grow in ways they never expected, and discover that even in death’s wake, lives can change for the better. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LisaBorders--excerptfromTheFifty-FirstState.mp3 Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:43:22 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA handful of sentences form the opening chapter of Lisa Borders' novel The Fifty-First State, setting her characters on an inexorable course towards tragedy and connection, and sending her readers into a world of lush detail and intensely-felt emotion. Hallie and Josh Corson share a father but little else—until a grisly highway accident at the novel's outset leaves them both without parents. Forced to come together on the family's struggling tomato farm, Josh and Hallie grow in ways they never expected, and discover that even in death’s wake, lives can change for the better.The Drum Literary MagazineA handful of sentences form the opening chapter of Lisa Borders' novel The Fifty-First State, setting her characters on an inexorable course towards tragedy and connection, and sending her readers into a world of lush detail and intensely-felt emotion. Hallie and Josh Corson share a father but little else—until a grisly highway accident at the novel's outset leaves them both without parents. Forced to come together on the family's struggling tomato farm, Josh and Hallie grow in ways they never expected, and discover that even in death’s wake, lives can change for the better. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-UpdatedRobertson.mp3 29:39 A house haunted by a mother's yearning for excitement is the setting for Andrea Robertson's "The Greenbriar Ghost". Named for a woman whose ghost does haunt the narrator's Southern town, Zona tries to find her own place in a world of signs and warnings, messages from beyond, and the sometimes more troubling messages from within her own family. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-UpdatedRobertson.mp3 Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:44:41 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA house haunted by a mother's yearning for excitement is the setting for Andrea Robertson's "The Greenbriar Ghost". Named for a woman whose ghost does haunt the narrator's Southern town, Zona tries to find her own place in a world of signs and warnings, messages from beyond, and the sometimes more troubling messages from within her own family.The Drum Literary MagazineA house haunted by a mother's yearning for excitement is the setting for Andrea Robertson's "The Greenbriar Ghost". Named for a woman whose ghost does haunt the narrator's Southern town, Zona tries to find her own place in a world of signs and warnings, messages from beyond, and the sometimes more troubling messages from within her own family. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EricaShubin--WhenJesusDied.mp3 29:41 Jesus is the name of Rudy's dog--Rudy being the boy who forms a frank but subtle friendship with the narrator of Erica Shubin's story "When Jesus Died". Shubin's is a rich and detailed narrative encompassing adolescent sexuality, religion, and community, and centering on the poignant makeshift burial of a pet. Most of all, though, "When Jesus Died" explores the question of what makes us feel invincible or whole and what we do to guard against diminution. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EricaShubin--WhenJesusDied.mp3 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 22:10:27 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJesus is the name of Rudy's dog--Rudy being the boy who forms a frank but subtle friendship with the narrator of Erica Shubin's story "When Jesus Died". Shubin's is a rich and detailed narrative encompassing adolescent sexuality, religion, and community, and centering on the poignant makeshift burial of a pet. Most of all, though, "When Jesus Died" explores the question of what makes us feel invincible or whole and what we do to guard against diminution.The Drum Literary MagazineJesus is the name of Rudy's dog--Rudy being the boy who forms a frank but subtle friendship with the narrator of Erica Shubin's story "When Jesus Died". Shubin's is a rich and detailed narrative encompassing adolescent sexuality, religion, and community, and centering on the poignant makeshift burial of a pet. Most of all, though, "When Jesus Died" explores the question of what makes us feel invincible or whole and what we do to guard against diminution. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BenWarner--Sandcastles.mp3 9:33 The threat of violence hangs in the air as a young boy waits in a hotel room for his bookie father to return from a fight in Ben Warner's "Sandcastles". Guarded by an ally, the boy, Snake, is full of questions about what can truly protect him. Guns, knives, or fists? Or possibly, the men entrusted with his care. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BenWarner--Sandcastles.mp3 Mon, 07 Apr 2014 13:57:42 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe threat of violence hangs in the air as a young boy waits in a hotel room for his bookie father to return from a fight in Ben Warner's "Sandcastles". Guarded by an ally, the boy, Snake, is full of questions about what can truly protect him. Guns, knives, or fists? Or possibly, the men entrusted with his care.The Drum Literary MagazineThe threat of violence hangs in the air as a young boy waits in a hotel room for his bookie father to return from a fight in Ben Warner's "Sandcastles". Guarded by an ally, the boy, Snake, is full of questions about what can truly protect him. Guns, knives, or fists? Or possibly, the men entrusted with his care. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-DarlinNeal--HoneyDont.mp3 17:42 A red spaghetti-strap dress and blue-suede Doc Martens set Dinah apart as she walks through a small southern town looking for a wedding dress. But it's not just the clothing that doesn't fit; it's the music, too, that isn't quite the right accompaniment she wants for her life. Dinah lives on the flip side, the back side of "Blue Suede Shoes" in this story by Darlin' Neal about a woman teetering between maturity and childishness, weakness and independence. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-DarlinNeal--HoneyDont.mp3 Mon, 31 Mar 2014 02:58:43 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA red spaghetti-strap dress and blue-suede Doc Martens set Dinah apart as she walks through a small southern town looking for a wedding dress. But it's not just the clothing that doesn't fit; it's the music, too, that isn't quite the right accompaniment she wants for her life. Dinah lives on the flip side, the back side of "Blue Suede Shoes" in this story by Darlin' Neal about a woman teetering between maturity and childishness, weakness and independence.The Drum Literary MagazineA red spaghetti-strap dress and blue-suede Doc Martens set Dinah apart as she walks through a small southern town looking for a wedding dress. But it's not just the clothing that doesn't fit; it's the music, too, that isn't quite the right accompaniment she wants for her life. Dinah lives on the flip side, the back side of "Blue Suede Shoes" in this story by Darlin' Neal about a woman teetering between maturity and childishness, weakness and independence. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JillMcDonough--Poems.mp3 7:06 Zombies, weapons, and terrors of a darker, more pervasive sort: these are the subjects of Jill McDonough's poems "Horrors All Around" and "Also, Homemade Flamethrowers". What are the threats, McDonough's work asks, and do they come from within or beyond us? McDonough offers answers, too, in her interview with Kirun Kapur. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JillMcDonough--Poems.mp3 Mon, 24 Mar 2014 02:59:19 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoZombies, weapons, and terrors of a darker, more pervasive sort: these are the subjects of Jill McDonough's poems "Horrors All Around" and "Also, Homemade Flamethrowers". What are the threats, McDonough's work asks, and do they come from within or beyond us? McDonough offers answers, too, in her interview with Kirun Kapur.The Drum Literary MagazineZombies, weapons, and terrors of a darker, more pervasive sort: these are the subjects of Jill McDonough's poems "Horrors All Around" and "Also, Homemade Flamethrowers". What are the threats, McDonough's work asks, and do they come from within or beyond us? McDonough offers answers, too, in her interview with Kirun Kapur. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AllisonWilliams--Courtesies.mp3 6:15 The balky knobs on a Czech stove, the quirky signage on a Prague building, or the smile of a stranger on a train: these are the starting points for Allison Williams' essay about decoding the mysteries of life abroad. But more than geographical foreignness, Williams writes of the potential estrangement from one's partner and from certain crucial parts of one's identity. In "Courtesies," she explores how we navigate as we try to turn the right way. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AllisonWilliams--Courtesies.mp3 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:03:49 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe balky knobs on a Czech stove, the quirky signage on a Prague building, or the smile of a stranger on a train: these are the starting points for Allison Williams' essay about decoding the mysteries of life abroad. But more than geographical foreignness, Williams writes of the potential estrangement from one's partner and from certain crucial parts of one's identity. In "Courtesies," she explores how we navigate as we try to turn the right way.The Drum Literary MagazineThe balky knobs on a Czech stove, the quirky signage on a Prague building, or the smile of a stranger on a train: these are the starting points for Allison Williams' essay about decoding the mysteries of life abroad. But more than geographical foreignness, Williams writes of the potential estrangement from one's partner and from certain crucial parts of one's identity. In "Courtesies," she explores how we navigate as we try to turn the right way. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JonathanGotsick--WingWoman.mp3 24:37 “Another thing of Zinfandel. We’re headed for the Coast," says the narrator of Jonathan Gotsick's "Wing Woman" when she agrees to go along with her recently-divorced friend to assume the story's title role. Toni escorts Shelley on a journey of escape and adventure rendered with vivid and particular--and humorous--detail. Gotsick's narrative leads the two women to an aging rock band and to a final performance whose bombast reveals the story's poignant heart. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JonathanGotsick--WingWoman.mp3 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:33:49 EDT The Drum Literary Magazineno“Another thing of Zinfandel. We’re headed for the Coast," says the narrator of Jonathan Gotsick's "Wing Woman" when she agrees to go along with her recently-divorced friend to assume the story's title role. Toni escorts Shelley on a journey of escape and adventure rendered with vivid and particular--and humorous--detail. Gotsick's narrative leads the two women to an aging rock band and to a final performance whose bombast reveals the story's poignant heart.The Drum Literary Magazine“Another thing of Zinfandel. We’re headed for the Coast," says the narrator of Jonathan Gotsick's "Wing Woman" when she agrees to go along with her recently-divorced friend to assume the story's title role. Toni escorts Shelley on a journey of escape and adventure rendered with vivid and particular--and humorous--detail. Gotsick's narrative leads the two women to an aging rock band and to a final performance whose bombast reveals the story's poignant heart. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum3556-844.mp3 4:22 "At Hundred Islands National Park, I Count Only One Island" is The Drum's inaugural poem, by Aimee Nezhukumathatil. Nezhukumathatil reads the poem and then answers questions from Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur, about the poem's origins, her non-writing obsessions, and more. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum3556-844.mp3 Tue, 04 Mar 2014 12:14:27 EST The Drum Literary Magazineno"At Hundred Islands National Park, I Count Only One Island" is The Drum's inaugural poem, by Aimee Nezhukumathatil. Nezhukumathatil reads the poem and then answers questions from Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur, about the poem's origins, her non-writing obsessions, and more.The Drum Literary Magazine"At Hundred Islands National Park, I Count Only One Island" is The Drum's inaugural poem, by Aimee Nezhukumathatil. Nezhukumathatil reads the poem and then answers questions from Poetry Editor Kirun Kapur, about the poem's origins, her non-writing obsessions, and more. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JenniferHaigh--FavoriteSon.mp3 26:39 Jennifer Haigh reads "Favorite Son" from her recent collection News From Heaven. It's here that the collection's title appears--in a story of hopes and disappointments shared by an entire town and by the sons and daughters left with the town's poignant legacy. "Favorite Son" explores the ways in which a certain kind of faith and trust can turn into betrayal. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JenniferHaigh--FavoriteSon.mp3 Wed, 19 Feb 2014 21:18:26 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoJennifer Haigh reads "Favorite Son" from her recent collection News From Heaven. It's here that the collection's title appears--in a story of hopes and disappointments shared by an entire town and by the sons and daughters left with the town's poignant legacy. "Favorite Son" explores the ways in which a certain kind of faith and trust can turn into betrayal.The Drum Literary MagazineJennifer Haigh reads "Favorite Son" from her recent collection News From Heaven. It's here that the collection's title appears--in a story of hopes and disappointments shared by an entire town and by the sons and daughters left with the town's poignant legacy. "Favorite Son" explores the ways in which a certain kind of faith and trust can turn into betrayal. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-KimTriedman--excerptfromTheOtherRoom.mp3 5:55 A pink mitten and a balky boiler are some of the poignant details of this scene from Kim Triedman's novel The Other Room. The loss of a child registers through the eerie combination of the normal and the uncanny, adding up to mounting pressure on the husband and wife who have survived. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-KimTriedman--excerptfromTheOtherRoom.mp3 Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:54:11 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoA pink mitten and a balky boiler are some of the poignant details of this scene from Kim Triedman's novel The Other Room. The loss of a child registers through the eerie combination of the normal and the uncanny, adding up to mounting pressure on the husband and wife who have survived.The Drum Literary MagazineA pink mitten and a balky boiler are some of the poignant details of this scene from Kim Triedman's novel The Other Room. The loss of a child registers through the eerie combination of the normal and the uncanny, adding up to mounting pressure on the husband and wife who have survived. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RoddyDoyle--readingatBrooklineBooksmith.mp3 46:28 Booker-Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle reads from his latest novel The Guts in this recording of an event at Brookline Booksmith on February 6, 2014. Jimmy Rabitte, the protagonist of Doyle's first novel The Commitments, is now middle-aged and facing the difficult task of telling his wife he has cancer. Doyle's trademark spare and witty dialogue anchors the scene. Following the reading, Doyle discusses topics ranging from how he writes dialogue, the Irish recession, and footballer Wayne Rooney, all in his inimitably wry style. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RoddyDoyle--readingatBrooklineBooksmith.mp3 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:58:19 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoBooker-Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle reads from his latest novel The Guts in this recording of an event at Brookline Booksmith on February 6, 2014. Jimmy Rabitte, the protagonist of Doyle's first novel The Commitments, is now middle-aged and facing the difficult task of telling his wife he has cancer. Doyle's trademark spare and witty dialogue anchors the scene. Following the reading, Doyle discusses topics ranging from how he writes dialogue, the Irish recession, and footballer Wayne Rooney, all in his inimitably wry style.The Drum Literary MagazineBooker-Prize-winning author Roddy Doyle reads from his latest novel The Guts in this recording of an event at Brookline Booksmith on February 6, 2014. Jimmy Rabitte, the protagonist of Doyle's first novel The Commitments, is now middle-aged and facing the difficult task of telling his wife he has cancer. Doyle's trademark spare and witty dialogue anchors the scene. Following the reading, Doyle discusses topics ranging from how he writes dialogue, the Irish recession, and footballer Wayne Rooney, all in his inimitably wry style. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JodyAzzouni--TheGhostzoo.mp3 13:30 It's after a cataclysm of some sorts, a post-apocalyptic moment etched in miniature in Jody Azzouni's "The Ghostzoo". As a father and his daughter eke out an existence from the meager remnants of their former world, the little girl plays with a dollhouse. She learns as she plays about the world that is lost to her, until new arrivals start a new and perplexing cycle of creation and disappearance. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JodyAzzouni--TheGhostzoo.mp3 Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:07:53 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoIt's after a cataclysm of some sorts, a post-apocalyptic moment etched in miniature in Jody Azzouni's "The Ghostzoo". As a father and his daughter eke out an existence from the meager remnants of their former world, the little girl plays with a dollhouse. She learns as she plays about the world that is lost to her, until new arrivals start a new and perplexing cycle of creation and disappearance.The Drum Literary MagazineIt's after a cataclysm of some sorts, a post-apocalyptic moment etched in miniature in Jody Azzouni's "The Ghostzoo". As a father and his daughter eke out an existence from the meager remnants of their former world, the little girl plays with a dollhouse. She learns as she plays about the world that is lost to her, until new arrivals start a new and perplexing cycle of creation and disappearance. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-TracyWinn--AnotherWayToMakeCleopatraCry.mp3 24:31 A lost purse sets in motion this fast-paced, voice-rich story of opportunism and desperation seen through the wary eyes of a little girl. Dragged around the bars and backstreets of Lowell, Massachusetts by her father's girlfriend, Kaylene watches over her sister Cleopatra and the girlfriend's son as they go in search of the purse and its promise of a better life. Tracy Winn's "Another Way to Make Cleopatra Cry" offers a vivid sense of what it means when observation is your only resource. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-TracyWinn--AnotherWayToMakeCleopatraCry.mp3 Mon, 03 Feb 2014 09:07:02 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoA lost purse sets in motion this fast-paced, voice-rich story of opportunism and desperation seen through the wary eyes of a little girl. Dragged around the bars and backstreets of Lowell, Massachusetts by her father's girlfriend, Kaylene watches over her sister Cleopatra and the girlfriend's son as they go in search of the purse and its promise of a better life. Tracy Winn's "Another Way to Make Cleopatra Cry" offers a vivid sense of what it means when observation is your only resource.The Drum Literary MagazineA lost purse sets in motion this fast-paced, voice-rich story of opportunism and desperation seen through the wary eyes of a little girl. Dragged around the bars and backstreets of Lowell, Massachusetts by her father's girlfriend, Kaylene watches over her sister Cleopatra and the girlfriend's son as they go in search of the purse and its promise of a better life. Tracy Winn's "Another Way to Make Cleopatra Cry" offers a vivid sense of what it means when observation is your only resource. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JenniferOzga--TheRock.mp3 11:34 The complexities of a date take on new dimension in Jennifer Hill Ozga's "The Rock". Ozga's story mines the rituals of contemporary dating for their vulnerabilities and power dynamics, setting her unnamed couple on a path of gentle but inexorable devolution. "The Rock" is a story about disappointment, rendered with a light touch through painfully comic details. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JenniferOzga--TheRock.mp3 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:54:55 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe complexities of a date take on new dimension in Jennifer Hill Ozga's "The Rock". Ozga's story mines the rituals of contemporary dating for their vulnerabilities and power dynamics, setting her unnamed couple on a path of gentle but inexorable devolution. "The Rock" is a story about disappointment, rendered with a light touch through painfully comic details.The Drum Literary MagazineThe complexities of a date take on new dimension in Jennifer Hill Ozga's "The Rock". Ozga's story mines the rituals of contemporary dating for their vulnerabilities and power dynamics, setting her unnamed couple on a path of gentle but inexorable devolution. "The Rock" is a story about disappointment, rendered with a light touch through painfully comic details. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ChristiCraig--TheWurlitzer.mp3 10:50 The tuning of a piano becomes the catalyst for a relationship between two unlikely individuals. Christ Craig's "The Wurlitzer" makes subtle use of its narrative voice to bring two lonely people together in a bond created through music and memory. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ChristiCraig--TheWurlitzer.mp3 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:42:48 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe tuning of a piano becomes the catalyst for a relationship between two unlikely individuals. Christ Craig's "The Wurlitzer" makes subtle use of its narrative voice to bring two lonely people together in a bond created through music and memory.The Drum Literary MagazineThe tuning of a piano becomes the catalyst for a relationship between two unlikely individuals. Christ Craig's "The Wurlitzer" makes subtle use of its narrative voice to bring two lonely people together in a bond created through music and memory. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ColleenHoulihan--AreYouAnAnimalLover.mp3 18:05 "Are you an animal lover?" is the innocent question that precipitates the soul-searching rendered comically here by Colleen Houlihan. Squirrels, a video store, and a healthy amount of risk-taking and imagination feature in Houlihan's essay, in which an encounter with an unusual customer leads the writer into new and potentially taboo territory. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ColleenHoulihan--AreYouAnAnimalLover.mp3 Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:15:58 EST The Drum Literary Magazineno"Are you an animal lover?" is the innocent question that precipitates the soul-searching rendered comically here by Colleen Houlihan. Squirrels, a video store, and a healthy amount of risk-taking and imagination feature in Houlihan's essay, in which an encounter with an unusual customer leads the writer into new and potentially taboo territory.The Drum Literary Magazine"Are you an animal lover?" is the innocent question that precipitates the soul-searching rendered comically here by Colleen Houlihan. Squirrels, a video store, and a healthy amount of risk-taking and imagination feature in Houlihan's essay, in which an encounter with an unusual customer leads the writer into new and potentially taboo territory. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-KateWisel--WaysToBreakMe.mp3 9:03 In the hung-over aftermath of New Year's Eve, the narrator of Kate Wisel's "Ways to Break Me" finds herself exactly where she always is: in an apartment and in a relationship that is at once playground and cage. There are three people in these confined spaces, pushing and shoving at each other to assert themselves and get what they want. Wisel's story is striking for its physicality and its rendering of the drama of the body. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-KateWisel--WaysToBreakMe.mp3 Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:58:52 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn the hung-over aftermath of New Year's Eve, the narrator of Kate Wisel's "Ways to Break Me" finds herself exactly where she always is: in an apartment and in a relationship that is at once playground and cage. There are three people in these confined spaces, pushing and shoving at each other to assert themselves and get what they want. Wisel's story is striking for its physicality and its rendering of the drama of the body.The Drum Literary MagazineIn the hung-over aftermath of New Year's Eve, the narrator of Kate Wisel's "Ways to Break Me" finds herself exactly where she always is: in an apartment and in a relationship that is at once playground and cage. There are three people in these confined spaces, pushing and shoving at each other to assert themselves and get what they want. Wisel's story is striking for its physicality and its rendering of the drama of the body. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-StevenLaFond--ThePartsofYouWeWantToKeep.mp3 15:51 It's an old story: the love triangle. But Steven LaFond sets it in the world of kink. What are the most shocking parts of us that we need or desire to keep secret? What happens when circumstances risk revealing what we want to preserve for ourselves--or what we fear to acknowledge? Those are the questions the characters of "The Parts of You We Want to Keep"--and listeners to the story--are forced to ask themselves. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-StevenLaFond--ThePartsofYouWeWantToKeep.mp3 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 07:48:22 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoIt's an old story: the love triangle. But Steven LaFond sets it in the world of kink. What are the most shocking parts of us that we need or desire to keep secret? What happens when circumstances risk revealing what we want to preserve for ourselves--or what we fear to acknowledge? Those are the questions the characters of "The Parts of You We Want to Keep"--and listeners to the story--are forced to ask themselves.The Drum Literary MagazineIt's an old story: the love triangle. But Steven LaFond sets it in the world of kink. What are the most shocking parts of us that we need or desire to keep secret? What happens when circumstances risk revealing what we want to preserve for ourselves--or what we fear to acknowledge? Those are the questions the characters of "The Parts of You We Want to Keep"--and listeners to the story--are forced to ask themselves. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RyanBritt-SeaMonsterBlues.mp3 8:33 Existential angst takes a darkly humorous turn in Ryan Britt's short story about a man and a monster on a beach. "Sea Monster Blues" offers a variation on the Jekyll and Hyde tale, the drama compressed to one summer afternoon amid the sunscreen and the paperbacks. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RyanBritt-SeaMonsterBlues.mp3 Mon, 23 Dec 2013 12:20:32 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoExistential angst takes a darkly humorous turn in Ryan Britt's short story about a man and a monster on a beach. "Sea Monster Blues" offers a variation on the Jekyll and Hyde tale, the drama compressed to one summer afternoon amid the sunscreen and the paperbacks.The Drum Literary MagazineExistential angst takes a darkly humorous turn in Ryan Britt's short story about a man and a monster on a beach. "Sea Monster Blues" offers a variation on the Jekyll and Hyde tale, the drama compressed to one summer afternoon amid the sunscreen and the paperbacks. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-HeatherNewton--ThingsSummoned.mp3 21:39 A little girl plays in the woods, content to be alone with the bits and pieces of nature that she gathers around her. When she sees signs of a visitor, she welcomes this potential friend, eager to include someone else in her small world. Heather Newton's story "Things Summoned" lets us into that world and into the wonder, vulnerability, and danger of what's new and strange. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-HeatherNewton--ThingsSummoned.mp3 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:05:55 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoA little girl plays in the woods, content to be alone with the bits and pieces of nature that she gathers around her. When she sees signs of a visitor, she welcomes this potential friend, eager to include someone else in her small world. Heather Newton's story "Things Summoned" lets us into that world and into the wonder, vulnerability, and danger of what's new and strange.The Drum Literary MagazineA little girl plays in the woods, content to be alone with the bits and pieces of nature that she gathers around her. When she sees signs of a visitor, she welcomes this potential friend, eager to include someone else in her small world. Heather Newton's story "Things Summoned" lets us into that world and into the wonder, vulnerability, and danger of what's new and strange. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Kim_Savage-Stud.mp3 25:20 The Quincy, Massachusetts quarries are the setting for this short story about the disappearance of a young boy in 1980. Kim Savage's "Stud" weaves together the memories of two women once in thrall to the charismatic Danny Delano, piecing together a narrative of threatened innocence. The conflict between two brothers, undercurrents of homophobia, and the toxicity--literal and figurative--of the quarry landscape propel this unsettling and powerful narrative forward. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Kim_Savage-Stud.mp3 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:14:29 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe Quincy, Massachusetts quarries are the setting for this short story about the disappearance of a young boy in 1980. Kim Savage's "Stud" weaves together the memories of two women once in thrall to the charismatic Danny Delano, piecing together a narrative of threatened innocence. The conflict between two brothers, undercurrents of homophobia, and the toxicity--literal and figurative--of the quarry landscape propel this unsettling and powerful narrative forward.The Drum Literary MagazineThe Quincy, Massachusetts quarries are the setting for this short story about the disappearance of a young boy in 1980. Kim Savage's "Stud" weaves together the memories of two women once in thrall to the charismatic Danny Delano, piecing together a narrative of threatened innocence. The conflict between two brothers, undercurrents of homophobia, and the toxicity--literal and figurative--of the quarry landscape propel this unsettling and powerful narrative forward. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BarringtonSmith-Seetachit--SundayAfternoonwithBuddhaandSpider.mp3 19:11 A woman, a spider, and a small space. These are the elements of Barrington Smith-Seetachit's essay "Sunday Afternoon With Buddha and Spider." With comic flair, Smith-Seetachit leads us through a high-intensity meditation on fear, power, and mercy. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BarringtonSmith-Seetachit--SundayAfternoonwithBuddhaandSpider.mp3 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 08:57:48 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoA woman, a spider, and a small space. These are the elements of Barrington Smith-Seetachit's essay "Sunday Afternoon With Buddha and Spider." With comic flair, Smith-Seetachit leads us through a high-intensity meditation on fear, power, and mercy.The Drum Literary MagazineA woman, a spider, and a small space. These are the elements of Barrington Smith-Seetachit's essay "Sunday Afternoon With Buddha and Spider." With comic flair, Smith-Seetachit leads us through a high-intensity meditation on fear, power, and mercy. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ErikDoughty--GoingasaGhost.mp3 3:42 Halloween provides a touching backdrop for Erik Doughty's flash fiction piece about the emotional aftermath in a family dealing with loss. "Going as a Ghost" offers a bittersweet look at how we "go as" those who are gone. Doughty's piece is a featured selection from The Drum's Flash Fiction Open Mic held at last month's Boston Book Festival. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ErikDoughty--GoingasaGhost.mp3 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:55:26 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoHalloween provides a touching backdrop for Erik Doughty's flash fiction piece about the emotional aftermath in a family dealing with loss. "Going as a Ghost" offers a bittersweet look at how we "go as" those who are gone. Doughty's piece is a featured selection from The Drum's Flash Fiction Open Mic held at last month's Boston Book Festival.The Drum Literary MagazineHalloween provides a touching backdrop for Erik Doughty's flash fiction piece about the emotional aftermath in a family dealing with loss. "Going as a Ghost" offers a bittersweet look at how we "go as" those who are gone. Doughty's piece is a featured selection from The Drum's Flash Fiction Open Mic held at last month's Boston Book Festival. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LeahBerkowitz--BeforetheFall.mp3 3:19 A chair held aloft at a Jewish wedding is the perch from which the narrator of Leah Berkowitz' "Before the Fall" observes a key moment in her life in poignant and vivid detail. The mundane, the good, and the worrisome are all before her--in what measure, she doesn't yet know. "Before the Fall" is a featured selection from The Drum's Flash Fiction Open Mic held at last month's Boston Book Festival. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LeahBerkowitz--BeforetheFall.mp3 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:52:03 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoA chair held aloft at a Jewish wedding is the perch from which the narrator of Leah Berkowitz' "Before the Fall" observes a key moment in her life in poignant and vivid detail. The mundane, the good, and the worrisome are all before her--in what measure, she doesn't yet know. "Before the Fall" is a featured selection from The Drum's Flash Fiction Open Mic held at last month's Boston Book Festival.The Drum Literary MagazineA chair held aloft at a Jewish wedding is the perch from which the narrator of Leah Berkowitz' "Before the Fall" observes a key moment in her life in poignant and vivid detail. The mundane, the good, and the worrisome are all before her--in what measure, she doesn't yet know. "Before the Fall" is a featured selection from The Drum's Flash Fiction Open Mic held at last month's Boston Book Festival. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AdamRennOlenn--Twelve.mp3 3:43 Adam Renn Olenn's "Twelve" is paced by the chime of the town bells in this western-ish tale of a man looking for a way to stay out of trouble. Trouble, though, has a way of breaking out around him. "Twelve" is a featured selection from The Drum's Flash Fiction Open Mic held at this year's Boston Book Festival. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AdamRennOlenn--Twelve.mp3 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:49:48 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoAdam Renn Olenn's "Twelve" is paced by the chime of the town bells in this western-ish tale of a man looking for a way to stay out of trouble. Trouble, though, has a way of breaking out around him. "Twelve" is a featured selection from The Drum's Flash Fiction Open Mic held at this year's Boston Book Festival.The Drum Literary MagazineAdam Renn Olenn's "Twelve" is paced by the chime of the town bells in this western-ish tale of a man looking for a way to stay out of trouble. Trouble, though, has a way of breaking out around him. "Twelve" is a featured selection from The Drum's Flash Fiction Open Mic held at this year's Boston Book Festival. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-StephenDorneman--VodkaandDuctTape.mp3 3:18 How to fix what's broken--in a person, a relationship, a home? Stephen Dorneman's flash fiction "Vodka and Duct Tape" offers moving and heart-breaking answers to these questions. "Vodka and Duct Tape" is a featured selection from The Drum's Flash Fiction Open Mic held at last month's Boston Book Festival. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-StephenDorneman--VodkaandDuctTape.mp3 Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:43:37 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoHow to fix what's broken--in a person, a relationship, a home? Stephen Dorneman's flash fiction "Vodka and Duct Tape" offers moving and heart-breaking answers to these questions. "Vodka and Duct Tape" is a featured selection from The Drum's Flash Fiction Open Mic held at last month's Boston Book Festival.The Drum Literary MagazineHow to fix what's broken--in a person, a relationship, a home? Stephen Dorneman's flash fiction "Vodka and Duct Tape" offers moving and heart-breaking answers to these questions. "Vodka and Duct Tape" is a featured selection from The Drum's Flash Fiction Open Mic held at last month's Boston Book Festival. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ChrisWiewora--SleepingOver.mp3 9:16 Chris Wiewiora's essay "Sleeping Over" explores the many complications of exactly that, when the people in question are teenagers, and one of them is presided over by his father. Trust, the truth, and independence are just some of the issues at stake not just in the event but in the messages surrounding it. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ChrisWiewora--SleepingOver.mp3 Tue, 12 Nov 2013 08:44:03 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoChris Wiewiora's essay "Sleeping Over" explores the many complications of exactly that, when the people in question are teenagers, and one of them is presided over by his father. Trust, the truth, and independence are just some of the issues at stake not just in the event but in the messages surrounding it.The Drum Literary MagazineChris Wiewiora's essay "Sleeping Over" explores the many complications of exactly that, when the people in question are teenagers, and one of them is presided over by his father. Trust, the truth, and independence are just some of the issues at stake not just in the event but in the messages surrounding it. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AfolabiOpanubi--Force.mp3 14:02 Afolabi Opanubi's short story "Force," an overnight visit from an old friend brings into stark clarity the concerns of two young ex-pat Nigerians in Canada. The question of whether or not to return to Nigeria--and the question of what obligations Tinukeh and Bankole have to each other--propel this story in which personal decisions carry political and social resonance. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AfolabiOpanubi--Force.mp3 Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:42:32 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAfolabi Opanubi's short story "Force," an overnight visit from an old friend brings into stark clarity the concerns of two young ex-pat Nigerians in Canada. The question of whether or not to return to Nigeria--and the question of what obligations Tinukeh and Bankole have to each other--propel this story in which personal decisions carry political and social resonance.The Drum Literary MagazineAfolabi Opanubi's short story "Force," an overnight visit from an old friend brings into stark clarity the concerns of two young ex-pat Nigerians in Canada. The question of whether or not to return to Nigeria--and the question of what obligations Tinukeh and Bankole have to each other--propel this story in which personal decisions carry political and social resonance. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BooksActuallycollection.mp3 46:20 Books, Actually is The Drum's collection of interlaced stories set in and around the Boston Book Festival. A thief, a teenaged poet, a coxswain, and a disgruntled author are just a few of the characters created by Boston authors Catherine Elcik, Ethan Gilsdorf, Katrina Grigg-Saito, Ted Weesner, Becky Tuch, Clarence Lai, Stace Budzko, and Henriette Lazaridis Power. Hear them all, or go directly to a selected story. Elcik (00:31), Gilsdorf (6:20), Lai (11:47), Power (17:12), Weesner (22:51), Tuch (29:23), Budzko (35:39), Grigg-Saito (37:17), Elcik (42:21). https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BooksActuallycollection.mp3 Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:04:05 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoBooks, Actually is The Drum's collection of interlaced stories set in and around the Boston Book Festival. A thief, a teenaged poet, a coxswain, and a disgruntled author are just a few of the characters created by Boston authors Catherine Elcik, Ethan Gilsdorf, Katrina Grigg-Saito, Ted Weesner, Becky Tuch, Clarence Lai, Stace Budzko, and Henriette Lazaridis Power. Hear them all, or go directly to a selected story. Elcik (00:31), Gilsdorf (6:20), Lai (11:47), Power (17:12), Weesner (22:51), Tuch (29:23), Budzko (35:39), Grigg-Saito (37:17), Elcik (42:21).The Drum Literary MagazineBooks, Actually is The Drum's collection of interlaced stories set in and around the Boston Book Festival. A thief, a teenaged poet, a coxswain, and a disgruntled author are just a few of the characters created by Boston authors Catherine Elcik, Ethan Gilsdorf, Katrina Grigg-Saito, Ted Weesner, Becky Tuch, Clarence Lai, Stace Budzko, and Henriette Lazaridis Power. Hear them all, or go directly to a selected story. Elcik (00:31), Gilsdorf (6:20), Lai (11:47), Power (17:12), Weesner (22:51), Tuch (29:23), Budzko (35:39), Grigg-Saito (37:17), Elcik (42:21). https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AnnieDawid--DomeLife.mp3 13:35 Annie Dawid's "Dome Life" describes a life under a figurative dome, on the margins of conventional society. Set in the world of pot-growers in 1970's Mendocino County, Dawid's essay tracks a descent into drugs and violence, and other dangers hiding in plain sight. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AnnieDawid--DomeLife.mp3 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:36:37 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAnnie Dawid's "Dome Life" describes a life under a figurative dome, on the margins of conventional society. Set in the world of pot-growers in 1970's Mendocino County, Dawid's essay tracks a descent into drugs and violence, and other dangers hiding in plain sight.The Drum Literary MagazineAnnie Dawid's "Dome Life" describes a life under a figurative dome, on the margins of conventional society. Set in the world of pot-growers in 1970's Mendocino County, Dawid's essay tracks a descent into drugs and violence, and other dangers hiding in plain sight. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JeanRyan--WhatWeAreGiven.mp3 10:27 In "What We Are Given," Jean Ryan recounts the experience of taking in her mother-in-law despite the older woman's condemnation of Ryan's and her partner's sexuality. Ryan's essay asks us to consider the limits of obligation, and offers a moving exploration of the challenges of allegiance and commitment. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JeanRyan--WhatWeAreGiven.mp3 Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:39:01 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn "What We Are Given," Jean Ryan recounts the experience of taking in her mother-in-law despite the older woman's condemnation of Ryan's and her partner's sexuality. Ryan's essay asks us to consider the limits of obligation, and offers a moving exploration of the challenges of allegiance and commitment.The Drum Literary MagazineIn "What We Are Given," Jean Ryan recounts the experience of taking in her mother-in-law despite the older woman's condemnation of Ryan's and her partner's sexuality. Ryan's essay asks us to consider the limits of obligation, and offers a moving exploration of the challenges of allegiance and commitment. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JoshMacIvor-Andersen--BedfordForrestBirthday-Unexpected.mp3 11:38 Josh MacIvor-Andersen writes lyrically about his brother, who has made it to his thirtieth birthday in spite of a persistent craving for risk. MacIvor-Andersen's essay "Bedford Forrest Birthday--Unexpected" contemplates the seduction of danger, the power of risk to imbue our experience with seemingly greater value. The essay asks the question: do we need danger in order to validate our survival? https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JoshMacIvor-Andersen--BedfordForrestBirthday-Unexpected.mp3 Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:26:12 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJosh MacIvor-Andersen writes lyrically about his brother, who has made it to his thirtieth birthday in spite of a persistent craving for risk. MacIvor-Andersen's essay "Bedford Forrest Birthday--Unexpected" contemplates the seduction of danger, the power of risk to imbue our experience with seemingly greater value. The essay asks the question: do we need danger in order to validate our survival?The Drum Literary MagazineJosh MacIvor-Andersen writes lyrically about his brother, who has made it to his thirtieth birthday in spite of a persistent craving for risk. MacIvor-Andersen's essay "Bedford Forrest Birthday--Unexpected" contemplates the seduction of danger, the power of risk to imbue our experience with seemingly greater value. The essay asks the question: do we need danger in order to validate our survival? https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-NickDybek--ThreeSummers.mp3 39:16 In a summer rental shared by two families, a boy and a girl in Nick Dybek's "Three Summers" search for treasure in the secret corners of the house. Parents search for a different kind of treasure--a shared history whose adventure and romance now eludes them. Over the course of three summers, both adults and children wrestle with the pull of the past and the allure of the imagined. "Three Summers" appears in print in the Fall 2013 issue of Ploughshares, and in text on Ploughshares online. The story is read aloud for The Drum by David Mawhinney. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-NickDybek--ThreeSummers.mp3 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 12:18:53 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn a summer rental shared by two families, a boy and a girl in Nick Dybek's "Three Summers" search for treasure in the secret corners of the house. Parents search for a different kind of treasure--a shared history whose adventure and romance now eludes them. Over the course of three summers, both adults and children wrestle with the pull of the past and the allure of the imagined. "Three Summers" appears in print in the Fall 2013 issue of Ploughshares, and in text on Ploughshares online. The story is read aloud for The Drum by David Mawhinney.The Drum Literary MagazineIn a summer rental shared by two families, a boy and a girl in Nick Dybek's "Three Summers" search for treasure in the secret corners of the house. Parents search for a different kind of treasure--a shared history whose adventure and romance now eludes them. Over the course of three summers, both adults and children wrestle with the pull of the past and the allure of the imagined. "Three Summers" appears in print in the Fall 2013 issue of Ploughshares, and in text on Ploughshares online. The story is read aloud for The Drum by David Mawhinney. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-GabeBamforth--YAWP2013.mp3 3:36 Gabe Bamforth was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his essay at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-GabeBamforth--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:23:18 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoGabe Bamforth was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his essay at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineGabe Bamforth was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his essay at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CatherineCray--YAWP2013.mp3 3:46 Catherine Cray was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. The story was one of The Drum's four featured pieces from the 2013 YAWP collection. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CatherineCray--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:21:27 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoCatherine Cray was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. The story was one of The Drum's four featured pieces from the 2013 YAWP collection.The Drum Literary MagazineCatherine Cray was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. The story was one of The Drum's four featured pieces from the 2013 YAWP collection. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JaneZhao--YAWP2013.mp3 4:17 Jane Zhao was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her poem at the conclusion of the 2013 program. Her poem was one of The Drum's four featured pieces from the 2013 YAWP collection. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JaneZhao--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:19:59 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJane Zhao was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her poem at the conclusion of the 2013 program. Her poem was one of The Drum's four featured pieces from the 2013 YAWP collection.The Drum Literary MagazineJane Zhao was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her poem at the conclusion of the 2013 program. Her poem was one of The Drum's four featured pieces from the 2013 YAWP collection. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CharlotteGoddu--YAWP2013.mp3 5:27 Charlotte Goddu was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. Her story is one of The Drum's four featured pieces from the 2013 YAWP collection. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CharlotteGoddu--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:16:32 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoCharlotte Goddu was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. Her story is one of The Drum's four featured pieces from the 2013 YAWP collection.The Drum Literary MagazineCharlotte Goddu was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. Her story is one of The Drum's four featured pieces from the 2013 YAWP collection. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EthanAronson--YAWP2013.mp3 4:17 Ethan Aronson was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. The story is one of The Drum's four featured pieces from the 2013 YAWP collection. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EthanAronson--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:13:48 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoEthan Aronson was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. The story is one of The Drum's four featured pieces from the 2013 YAWP collection.The Drum Literary MagazineEthan Aronson was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. The story is one of The Drum's four featured pieces from the 2013 YAWP collection. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EmmaTrujillo--YAWP2013.mp3 1:10 Emma Trujillo was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EmmaTrujillo--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:12:51 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoEmma Trujillo was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineEmma Trujillo was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-TaraRahman--YAWP2013.mp3 3:53 Tara Rahman was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-TaraRahman--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:11:14 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoTara Rahman was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineTara Rahman was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CarolineBrink--YAWP2013.mp3 2:29 Caroline Brink was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CarolineBrink--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:09:37 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoCaroline Brink was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineCaroline Brink was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-SabrinaPriestley--YAWP2013.mp3 2:45 Sabrina Priestley was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-SabrinaPriestley--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:08:09 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoSabrina Priestley was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineSabrina Priestley was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AmariahCondon--YAWP2013.mp3 5:13 Amariah Condon was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AmariahCondon--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:04:13 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAmariah Condon was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineAmariah Condon was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-NoahRiley--YAWP2013.mp3 2:17 Noah Riley was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-NoahRiley--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:49:45 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoNoah Riley was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineNoah Riley was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-QuddosRodriques--YAWP2013.mp3 3:01 Quddos Rodrigues was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-QuddosRodriques--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:48:11 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoQuddos Rodrigues was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineQuddos Rodrigues was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ChristinaWiese--YAWP2013.mp3 3:22 Christina Wiese was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her essay at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ChristinaWiese--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:45:27 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoChristina Wiese was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her essay at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineChristina Wiese was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her essay at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RichardNjoroge-YAWP2013.mp3 1:47 Richard Njoroge was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RichardNjoroge-YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:43:49 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoRichard Njoroge was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineRichard Njoroge was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-GaelleRigaud--YAWP2013.mp3 4:16 Gaelle Rigaud was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-GaelleRigaud--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:42:02 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoGaelle Rigaud was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineGaelle Rigaud was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ArthurGalstian--YAWP2013.mp3 2:06 Arthur Galstian was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-ArthurGalstian--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:40:36 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoArthur Galstian was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineArthur Galstian was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EmmaLeBlancPerez--YAWP2013.mp3 3:21 Emma LeBlanc Perez was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EmmaLeBlancPerez--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:38:07 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoEmma LeBlanc Perez was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineEmma LeBlanc Perez was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JohnGlasfeld--YAWP2013.mp3 3:15 John Glasfeld was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JohnGlasfeld--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:34:11 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJohn Glasfeld was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineJohn Glasfeld was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AshleyLee--YAWP2013.mp3 4:30 Ashley Lee was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AshleyLee--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:31:11 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAshley Lee was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineAshley Lee was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. She recorded her story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MarquisKnight-Jacks--YAWP2013.mp3 4:58 Marquis Knight-Jacks was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MarquisKnight-Jacks--YAWP2013.mp3 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:18:52 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoMarquis Knight-Jacks was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program.The Drum Literary MagazineMarquis Knight-Jacks was a 2013 Summer Fellow at Grub Street's 2013 Young Adult Writers Program. He recorded his story at the conclusion of the 2013 program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MatthewSalesses--excerptfromTheLastRepatriate.mp3 11:09 Matthew Salesses' novella The Last Repatriate tells the story of Theodore Dickerson, a prisoner who eventually returns to his home in Virginia in the midst of the McCarthy Era. He is welcomed back as a hero, though he has not returned unscathed. The lasting effects of the POW camp and troubles with his ex-fiancée complicate his new marriage as he struggles to readjust to the Virginia he holds dear. The letter from Teddy's fiancée is read by Joanne Barker. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MatthewSalesses--excerptfromTheLastRepatriate.mp3 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:24:48 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoMatthew Salesses' novella The Last Repatriate tells the story of Theodore Dickerson, a prisoner who eventually returns to his home in Virginia in the midst of the McCarthy Era. He is welcomed back as a hero, though he has not returned unscathed. The lasting effects of the POW camp and troubles with his ex-fiancée complicate his new marriage as he struggles to readjust to the Virginia he holds dear. The letter from Teddy's fiancée is read by Joanne Barker.The Drum Literary MagazineMatthew Salesses' novella The Last Repatriate tells the story of Theodore Dickerson, a prisoner who eventually returns to his home in Virginia in the midst of the McCarthy Era. He is welcomed back as a hero, though he has not returned unscathed. The lasting effects of the POW camp and troubles with his ex-fiancée complicate his new marriage as he struggles to readjust to the Virginia he holds dear. The letter from Teddy's fiancée is read by Joanne Barker. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum7038-750.mp3 6:14 In Alix Ohlin's "Taking," the memory game played by two sisters in childhood finds heartbreaking resonance in the events of their lives. "Taking" explores the often painful connections between memory and loss, possession and disappearance, in prose of melancholic power. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum7038-750.mp3 Mon, 22 Jul 2013 09:46:36 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Alix Ohlin's "Taking," the memory game played by two sisters in childhood finds heartbreaking resonance in the events of their lives. "Taking" explores the often painful connections between memory and loss, possession and disappearance, in prose of melancholic power.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Alix Ohlin's "Taking," the memory game played by two sisters in childhood finds heartbreaking resonance in the events of their lives. "Taking" explores the often painful connections between memory and loss, possession and disappearance, in prose of melancholic power. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MitaliPerkins--WritingRaceinNovels.mp3 8:38 Mitali Perkins' essay "Writing Race in Novels" is both a collection of practical advice on a matter of writing craft, and a philosophical analysis of how our treatment of identity--our own or that of others--reveals how we approach otherness. Though this essay is directed towards writers, it bears thought-provoking ideas for non-writers as well. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MitaliPerkins--WritingRaceinNovels.mp3 Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:21:28 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoMitali Perkins' essay "Writing Race in Novels" is both a collection of practical advice on a matter of writing craft, and a philosophical analysis of how our treatment of identity--our own or that of others--reveals how we approach otherness. Though this essay is directed towards writers, it bears thought-provoking ideas for non-writers as well.The Drum Literary MagazineMitali Perkins' essay "Writing Race in Novels" is both a collection of practical advice on a matter of writing craft, and a philosophical analysis of how our treatment of identity--our own or that of others--reveals how we approach otherness. Though this essay is directed towards writers, it bears thought-provoking ideas for non-writers as well. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LionelShriverreadsatBrooklineBooksmith.mp3 57:22 In this recording of her June 19 appearance at Brookline Booksmith, acclaimed novelist Lionel Shriver reads from her new novel Big Brother and discusses issues surrounding obesity in our culture. In her introduction to a short reading, and in her answers to audience questions, Shriver speaks with passion and insight about such topics as personal responsibility, government missteps, and the power of family and sibling relationships. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LionelShriverreadsatBrooklineBooksmith.mp3 Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:22:12 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn this recording of her June 19 appearance at Brookline Booksmith, acclaimed novelist Lionel Shriver reads from her new novel Big Brother and discusses issues surrounding obesity in our culture. In her introduction to a short reading, and in her answers to audience questions, Shriver speaks with passion and insight about such topics as personal responsibility, government missteps, and the power of family and sibling relationships.The Drum Literary MagazineIn this recording of her June 19 appearance at Brookline Booksmith, acclaimed novelist Lionel Shriver reads from her new novel Big Brother and discusses issues surrounding obesity in our culture. In her introduction to a short reading, and in her answers to audience questions, Shriver speaks with passion and insight about such topics as personal responsibility, government missteps, and the power of family and sibling relationships. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JaneHamilton--FindingForgivenessinaZiploc.mp3 11:04 Her husband's placement of a Ziploc bag at a TSA screening station becomes a watershed moment for Jane Hamilton as she contemplates the intricacies and interdependencies of marriage. "Finding Forgiveness in a Ziploc" takes us through fury to empathy, examining the ways in which imagination can lead to understanding. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JaneHamilton--FindingForgivenessinaZiploc.mp3 Thu, 04 Jul 2013 13:01:42 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoHer husband's placement of a Ziploc bag at a TSA screening station becomes a watershed moment for Jane Hamilton as she contemplates the intricacies and interdependencies of marriage. "Finding Forgiveness in a Ziploc" takes us through fury to empathy, examining the ways in which imagination can lead to understanding.The Drum Literary MagazineHer husband's placement of a Ziploc bag at a TSA screening station becomes a watershed moment for Jane Hamilton as she contemplates the intricacies and interdependencies of marriage. "Finding Forgiveness in a Ziploc" takes us through fury to empathy, examining the ways in which imagination can lead to understanding. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-PabolMedina--excerptfromCubopCityBlues.mp3 7:33 With rich language and striking images, the narrator of Pablo Medina's novel Cubop City Blues introduces himself, from the moment of his birth. His mother's infidelity, his aunts' various devotions, his father's cuckolding, and the rhythms and voices of this creative and created version of New York City--all of them come powerfully to life in this vivid excerpt. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-PabolMedina--excerptfromCubopCityBlues.mp3 Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:42:01 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoWith rich language and striking images, the narrator of Pablo Medina's novel Cubop City Blues introduces himself, from the moment of his birth. His mother's infidelity, his aunts' various devotions, his father's cuckolding, and the rhythms and voices of this creative and created version of New York City--all of them come powerfully to life in this vivid excerpt.The Drum Literary MagazineWith rich language and striking images, the narrator of Pablo Medina's novel Cubop City Blues introduces himself, from the moment of his birth. His mother's infidelity, his aunts' various devotions, his father's cuckolding, and the rhythms and voices of this creative and created version of New York City--all of them come powerfully to life in this vivid excerpt. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AnnLeary--excerptfromTheGoodHouse.mp3 10:07 Hildy, the narrator of Ann Leary's The Good House, is a descendant of a Salem witch, making her living selling real estate in the fictional Wendover of Massachusetts' Gold Coast. In this excerpt from Leary's novel, Hildy demonstrates her power to judge character, background, and aspiration simply by looking at the landscaping of a seaside mansion. Moving within but also slightly outside the culture of wealth and ambition, Hildy assesses the tensions and anxieties of her surroundings with acerbic wit. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AnnLeary--excerptfromTheGoodHouse.mp3 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:09:34 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoHildy, the narrator of Ann Leary's The Good House, is a descendant of a Salem witch, making her living selling real estate in the fictional Wendover of Massachusetts' Gold Coast. In this excerpt from Leary's novel, Hildy demonstrates her power to judge character, background, and aspiration simply by looking at the landscaping of a seaside mansion. Moving within but also slightly outside the culture of wealth and ambition, Hildy assesses the tensions and anxieties of her surroundings with acerbic wit.The Drum Literary MagazineHildy, the narrator of Ann Leary's The Good House, is a descendant of a Salem witch, making her living selling real estate in the fictional Wendover of Massachusetts' Gold Coast. In this excerpt from Leary's novel, Hildy demonstrates her power to judge character, background, and aspiration simply by looking at the landscaping of a seaside mansion. Moving within but also slightly outside the culture of wealth and ambition, Hildy assesses the tensions and anxieties of her surroundings with acerbic wit. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-SabineHeinlein--PompandCircumstance.mp3 23:16 Sabine Heinlein's essay "Pomp and Circumstance" traces the challenges and successes in the life of a young blind man negotiating life in New York. Heinlein gives us a vivid sense of the world as this young man experiences it, as she follows him through certain key milestones. A version of the essay first appeared in the American Literary Review where it was awarded the 2011 non-fiction award. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-SabineHeinlein--PompandCircumstance.mp3 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:50:58 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoSabine Heinlein's essay "Pomp and Circumstance" traces the challenges and successes in the life of a young blind man negotiating life in New York. Heinlein gives us a vivid sense of the world as this young man experiences it, as she follows him through certain key milestones. A version of the essay first appeared in the American Literary Review where it was awarded the 2011 non-fiction award.The Drum Literary MagazineSabine Heinlein's essay "Pomp and Circumstance" traces the challenges and successes in the life of a young blind man negotiating life in New York. Heinlein gives us a vivid sense of the world as this young man experiences it, as she follows him through certain key milestones. A version of the essay first appeared in the American Literary Review where it was awarded the 2011 non-fiction award. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LaurieA.Jacobs--TheCall.mp3 3:25 Laurie Jacobs' flash fiction piece "The Call" is a MuseFlash selection from The Drum's Third Annual MuseFlash contest, recorded at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference earlier this month. "The Call" is an early morning phone call that alters the life of Jacobs' college-student narrator. The brevity of the piece belies its dense emotional impact and its moving tone. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LaurieA.Jacobs--TheCall.mp3 Tue, 21 May 2013 14:27:37 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoLaurie Jacobs' flash fiction piece "The Call" is a MuseFlash selection from The Drum's Third Annual MuseFlash contest, recorded at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference earlier this month. "The Call" is an early morning phone call that alters the life of Jacobs' college-student narrator. The brevity of the piece belies its dense emotional impact and its moving tone.The Drum Literary MagazineLaurie Jacobs' flash fiction piece "The Call" is a MuseFlash selection from The Drum's Third Annual MuseFlash contest, recorded at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference earlier this month. "The Call" is an early morning phone call that alters the life of Jacobs' college-student narrator. The brevity of the piece belies its dense emotional impact and its moving tone. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-WendyWakeman--IdentityTheft.mp3 3:44 Wendy Wakeman's "Identity Theft" was a selection from The Drum's Third Annual MuseFlash contest at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference earlier this month. Financial dire straits and the pressures of college and work form the setting for the piece, in which a ten dollar bill and a grandmother's handwriting come together to alter the narrator's life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-WendyWakeman--IdentityTheft.mp3 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:25:56 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoWendy Wakeman's "Identity Theft" was a selection from The Drum's Third Annual MuseFlash contest at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference earlier this month. Financial dire straits and the pressures of college and work form the setting for the piece, in which a ten dollar bill and a grandmother's handwriting come together to alter the narrator's life.The Drum Literary MagazineWendy Wakeman's "Identity Theft" was a selection from The Drum's Third Annual MuseFlash contest at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference earlier this month. Financial dire straits and the pressures of college and work form the setting for the piece, in which a ten dollar bill and a grandmother's handwriting come together to alter the narrator's life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MarciaDouglas--BoyWithaWaterguninHisSchoolbag.mp3 5:33 In Marcia Douglas' "Boy With a Watergun in His Schoolbag", a boy finds power and poetry in something so basic as the multiplication tables. The number seven becomes the source of discovery of his own greatness and of his identity in the face of the confining world of school and a teacher with a ruler in her hand. "Boy With a Watergun in His Schoolbag" was The Drum's selection from our Third Annual MuseFlash contest, recorded at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference earlier this month. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-MarciaDouglas--BoyWithaWaterguninHisSchoolbag.mp3 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:19:08 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Marcia Douglas' "Boy With a Watergun in His Schoolbag", a boy finds power and poetry in something so basic as the multiplication tables. The number seven becomes the source of discovery of his own greatness and of his identity in the face of the confining world of school and a teacher with a ruler in her hand. "Boy With a Watergun in His Schoolbag" was The Drum's selection from our Third Annual MuseFlash contest, recorded at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference earlier this month.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Marcia Douglas' "Boy With a Watergun in His Schoolbag", a boy finds power and poetry in something so basic as the multiplication tables. The number seven becomes the source of discovery of his own greatness and of his identity in the face of the confining world of school and a teacher with a ruler in her hand. "Boy With a Watergun in His Schoolbag" was The Drum's selection from our Third Annual MuseFlash contest, recorded at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference earlier this month. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-KellyRobertson--TheCharacteristicsofDirt.mp3 3:37 Kelly Robertson's "The Characteristics of Dirt" is one of The Drum's selections from our Third Annual MuseFlash contest, recorded at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference earlier this month. Robertson's piece takes an intriguing and almost eerie look at a woman with an intense need to dig. This short work brings the listener in close, focusing on vivid sensory details of the loam the character sifts through. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-KellyRobertson--TheCharacteristicsofDirt.mp3 Mon, 20 May 2013 21:07:14 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoKelly Robertson's "The Characteristics of Dirt" is one of The Drum's selections from our Third Annual MuseFlash contest, recorded at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference earlier this month. Robertson's piece takes an intriguing and almost eerie look at a woman with an intense need to dig. This short work brings the listener in close, focusing on vivid sensory details of the loam the character sifts through.The Drum Literary MagazineKelly Robertson's "The Characteristics of Dirt" is one of The Drum's selections from our Third Annual MuseFlash contest, recorded at Grub Street's Muse and the Marketplace conference earlier this month. Robertson's piece takes an intriguing and almost eerie look at a woman with an intense need to dig. This short work brings the listener in close, focusing on vivid sensory details of the loam the character sifts through. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LadetteRandolph--HavensWake.mp3 12:35 Ladette Randolph's novel Haven's Wake tells the story of a family reunited on the family farm after the death of their patriarch. Set in a Mennonite community in eastern Nebraska, the novel illuminates themes of faith and loyalty, belief and imagination, family and allegiance. In this excerpt, a son discovers the strange clay figures his father was building beside the lake where met his death. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-LadetteRandolph--HavensWake.mp3 Mon, 13 May 2013 21:47:55 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoLadette Randolph's novel Haven's Wake tells the story of a family reunited on the family farm after the death of their patriarch. Set in a Mennonite community in eastern Nebraska, the novel illuminates themes of faith and loyalty, belief and imagination, family and allegiance. In this excerpt, a son discovers the strange clay figures his father was building beside the lake where met his death.The Drum Literary MagazineLadette Randolph's novel Haven's Wake tells the story of a family reunited on the family farm after the death of their patriarch. Set in a Mennonite community in eastern Nebraska, the novel illuminates themes of faith and loyalty, belief and imagination, family and allegiance. In this excerpt, a son discovers the strange clay figures his father was building beside the lake where met his death. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-TiphanieYanique--OaklandGomorrah.mp3 33:50 A man and a woman, a car, and a long drive in the company of memories and ruminations. Religion, race, and the seductive power of persuasion all come together in Tiphanie Yanique's story "Oakland Gomorrah". The story's conclusion offers a particularly thought-provoking reflection on beliefs and history. "Oakland Gomorrah" appears in print in the current issue of the literary journal AGNI. Listen to the story here, and read along in print. The story is read aloud by Katrina Grigg-Saito. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-TiphanieYanique--OaklandGomorrah.mp3 Mon, 06 May 2013 19:21:42 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA man and a woman, a car, and a long drive in the company of memories and ruminations. Religion, race, and the seductive power of persuasion all come together in Tiphanie Yanique's story "Oakland Gomorrah". The story's conclusion offers a particularly thought-provoking reflection on beliefs and history. "Oakland Gomorrah" appears in print in the current issue of the literary journal AGNI. Listen to the story here, and read along in print. The story is read aloud by Katrina Grigg-Saito.The Drum Literary MagazineA man and a woman, a car, and a long drive in the company of memories and ruminations. Religion, race, and the seductive power of persuasion all come together in Tiphanie Yanique's story "Oakland Gomorrah". The story's conclusion offers a particularly thought-provoking reflection on beliefs and history. "Oakland Gomorrah" appears in print in the current issue of the literary journal AGNI. Listen to the story here, and read along in print. The story is read aloud by Katrina Grigg-Saito. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AineGreaney--Sanctuary.mp3 8:13 Aine Greaney's "Sanctuary" is an eloquent meditation on the people and places that give us comfort, often in unexpected ways. With her mother's death as starting point, Greaney explores the notion of the individual in place and time, the connections that link us to history and to the present. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-AineGreaney--Sanctuary.mp3 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:02:32 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAine Greaney's "Sanctuary" is an eloquent meditation on the people and places that give us comfort, often in unexpected ways. With her mother's death as starting point, Greaney explores the notion of the individual in place and time, the connections that link us to history and to the present.The Drum Literary MagazineAine Greaney's "Sanctuary" is an eloquent meditation on the people and places that give us comfort, often in unexpected ways. With her mother's death as starting point, Greaney explores the notion of the individual in place and time, the connections that link us to history and to the present. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RonMacLean--IsFictionEmpathysBestHope.mp3 14:18 Ron MacLean's essay examines how stories connect us, and how the imagination becomes a powerful force in the creation of empathy. Citing writers Rabindranath Tagore, Ian McEwan, Tim O'Brien, and Marilynne Robinson, among others, MacLean reminds us that empathy is not just a desired effect of fiction, but a social and cultural need. In "Is Fiction Empathy's Best Hope?" MacLean offers us the hope and the promise of literature. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-RonMacLean--IsFictionEmpathysBestHope.mp3 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:32:37 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoRon MacLean's essay examines how stories connect us, and how the imagination becomes a powerful force in the creation of empathy. Citing writers Rabindranath Tagore, Ian McEwan, Tim O'Brien, and Marilynne Robinson, among others, MacLean reminds us that empathy is not just a desired effect of fiction, but a social and cultural need. In "Is Fiction Empathy's Best Hope?" MacLean offers us the hope and the promise of literature.The Drum Literary MagazineRon MacLean's essay examines how stories connect us, and how the imagination becomes a powerful force in the creation of empathy. Citing writers Rabindranath Tagore, Ian McEwan, Tim O'Brien, and Marilynne Robinson, among others, MacLean reminds us that empathy is not just a desired effect of fiction, but a social and cultural need. In "Is Fiction Empathy's Best Hope?" MacLean offers us the hope and the promise of literature. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EdBull--Seed.mp3 13:06 Ed Bull's "Seed" revisits the shocking events of August 1, 1966 when Charles Whitman shot seventeen people from the University of Texas clock tower. Part essay, part invention, Bull's piece bring us into the events, allowing us to ponder Whitman himself and the nature of his horrible crime and the nature of violence. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-EdBull--Seed.mp3 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:52:02 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoEd Bull's "Seed" revisits the shocking events of August 1, 1966 when Charles Whitman shot seventeen people from the University of Texas clock tower. Part essay, part invention, Bull's piece bring us into the events, allowing us to ponder Whitman himself and the nature of his horrible crime and the nature of violence.The Drum Literary MagazineEd Bull's "Seed" revisits the shocking events of August 1, 1966 when Charles Whitman shot seventeen people from the University of Texas clock tower. Part essay, part invention, Bull's piece bring us into the events, allowing us to ponder Whitman himself and the nature of his horrible crime and the nature of violence. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JudithMcCormack--CreationStories.mp3 45:41 Judith McCormack's "Creation Stories" appears in the current issue (Issue Number 43) of the Harvard Review. "Creation Stories" is the tale of a relationship and the law--social laws, laws of attraction, and the laws that govern the creation of facts and identity. In McCormack's narrative, Elisabetta and Miles meet en route to a legal conference in Sicily, and proceed to build a connection founded as much on omission as communication. The story is read aloud by Katrina Grigg-Saito. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JudithMcCormack--CreationStories.mp3 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:21:25 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJudith McCormack's "Creation Stories" appears in the current issue (Issue Number 43) of the Harvard Review. "Creation Stories" is the tale of a relationship and the law--social laws, laws of attraction, and the laws that govern the creation of facts and identity. In McCormack's narrative, Elisabetta and Miles meet en route to a legal conference in Sicily, and proceed to build a connection founded as much on omission as communication. The story is read aloud by Katrina Grigg-Saito.The Drum Literary MagazineJudith McCormack's "Creation Stories" appears in the current issue (Issue Number 43) of the Harvard Review. "Creation Stories" is the tale of a relationship and the law--social laws, laws of attraction, and the laws that govern the creation of facts and identity. In McCormack's narrative, Elisabetta and Miles meet en route to a legal conference in Sicily, and proceed to build a connection founded as much on omission as communication. The story is read aloud by Katrina Grigg-Saito. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JoshuaMalbin--TheMatingBehaviorofGreatTits.mp3 6:07 Joshua Malbin creates an avian drama for his short story "The Mating Behavior of Great Tits". It's a new genre, possibly with this story as its only example. Malbin's unusual story sets a drama of relationships and family in the world of birds, immersing the listener in one bird's struggle to establish a family and a place in his world. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-JoshuaMalbin--TheMatingBehaviorofGreatTits.mp3 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:28:21 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJoshua Malbin creates an avian drama for his short story "The Mating Behavior of Great Tits". It's a new genre, possibly with this story as its only example. Malbin's unusual story sets a drama of relationships and family in the world of birds, immersing the listener in one bird's struggle to establish a family and a place in his world.The Drum Literary MagazineJoshua Malbin creates an avian drama for his short story "The Mating Behavior of Great Tits". It's a new genre, possibly with this story as its only example. Malbin's unusual story sets a drama of relationships and family in the world of birds, immersing the listener in one bird's struggle to establish a family and a place in his world. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-HenrietteLazaridisPower--TheCloverHouseChapterOne.mp3 47:32 Henriette Lazaridis Power's novel The Clover House follows a Greek-American woman who discovers the secrets to a wartime family tragedy when she returns to Greece to sift through an inheritance. In the novel's first chapter, Callie Brown determines to make the trip to Greece, motivated by her mother's attempts to keep her away, and by her own unease about her recent engagement. For more about the book, visit www.henriettepower.com. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-HenrietteLazaridisPower--TheCloverHouseChapterOne.mp3 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:54:58 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoHenriette Lazaridis Power's novel The Clover House follows a Greek-American woman who discovers the secrets to a wartime family tragedy when she returns to Greece to sift through an inheritance. In the novel's first chapter, Callie Brown determines to make the trip to Greece, motivated by her mother's attempts to keep her away, and by her own unease about her recent engagement. For more about the book, visit www.henriettepower.com.The Drum Literary MagazineHenriette Lazaridis Power's novel The Clover House follows a Greek-American woman who discovers the secrets to a wartime family tragedy when she returns to Greece to sift through an inheritance. In the novel's first chapter, Callie Brown determines to make the trip to Greece, motivated by her mother's attempts to keep her away, and by her own unease about her recent engagement. For more about the book, visit www.henriettepower.com. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum4966-703.mp3 8:57 Before winter leaves us behind completely, and while memories of the latest snowstorms are still fresh in our minds, we offer Ellen Freeman Roth's tale of a predicament many snowbound drivers fear. In "Going's Tough In a Storm, But Don't Mention It," Freeman Roth recounts her car-bound adventure with liquids, frozen and otherwise. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/thedrum4966-703.mp3 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:23:01 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoBefore winter leaves us behind completely, and while memories of the latest snowstorms are still fresh in our minds, we offer Ellen Freeman Roth's tale of a predicament many snowbound drivers fear. In "Going's Tough In a Storm, But Don't Mention It," Freeman Roth recounts her car-bound adventure with liquids, frozen and otherwise.The Drum Literary MagazineBefore winter leaves us behind completely, and while memories of the latest snowstorms are still fresh in our minds, we offer Ellen Freeman Roth's tale of a predicament many snowbound drivers fear. In "Going's Tough In a Storm, But Don't Mention It," Freeman Roth recounts her car-bound adventure with liquids, frozen and otherwise. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-SteveAdams--Fish.mp3 10:01 Steve Adams's "The Fish" opens as a woman realizes her husband has killed his entire herd of cattle. This brief and powerful story goes on to sketch an entire marriage strained by the hard life of the land. It offers a poignant look at loss as well as the tenuous promise of a new beginning."The Fish" was originally published in Glimmer Train. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-SteveAdams--Fish.mp3 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:35:55 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoSteve Adams's "The Fish" opens as a woman realizes her husband has killed his entire herd of cattle. This brief and powerful story goes on to sketch an entire marriage strained by the hard life of the land. It offers a poignant look at loss as well as the tenuous promise of a new beginning."The Fish" was originally published in Glimmer Train.The Drum Literary MagazineSteve Adams's "The Fish" opens as a woman realizes her husband has killed his entire herd of cattle. This brief and powerful story goes on to sketch an entire marriage strained by the hard life of the land. It offers a poignant look at loss as well as the tenuous promise of a new beginning."The Fish" was originally published in Glimmer Train. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Lisa_Duff--What_Matters.mp3 17:44 Lisa Duffy's "What Matters" explores our notions of exactly that in the telling and remembering of the events surrounding the brief disappearance of the narrator's son. When the little boy gets lost in Central Park, his absence sets off a chain of events both in the search for him and in the narrator's search for the meaning of the events as she relives them. Trust, fidelity, and truth are just some of the ideas Duffy mines for this compelling and compellingly told story. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Lisa_Duff--What_Matters.mp3 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:22:06 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoLisa Duffy's "What Matters" explores our notions of exactly that in the telling and remembering of the events surrounding the brief disappearance of the narrator's son. When the little boy gets lost in Central Park, his absence sets off a chain of events both in the search for him and in the narrator's search for the meaning of the events as she relives them. Trust, fidelity, and truth are just some of the ideas Duffy mines for this compelling and compellingly told story.The Drum Literary MagazineLisa Duffy's "What Matters" explores our notions of exactly that in the telling and remembering of the events surrounding the brief disappearance of the narrator's son. When the little boy gets lost in Central Park, his absence sets off a chain of events both in the search for him and in the narrator's search for the meaning of the events as she relives them. Trust, fidelity, and truth are just some of the ideas Duffy mines for this compelling and compellingly told story. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-GrubStreetWriteInMay192017.mp3 8:39 On May 19, 2017, GrubStreet hosted Boston's first Write-In. The Drum was on the scene to record some of the many stories told by recent immigrants and refugees. Here are stories by Yanley Francois, Zach Ben-Amots, U-Melgn ‘Mhlaba-Apebo, Dana Lopes, Carolyn De Jesus, Christelle Narcisse, and Aseret Laparra. Write-In audio was recorded by Ilya Methot and Jordan Fischer. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-GrubStreetWriteInMay192017.mp3 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:49:38 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoOn May 19, 2017, GrubStreet hosted Boston's first Write-In. The Drum was on the scene to record some of the many stories told by recent immigrants and refugees. Here are stories by Yanley Francois, Zach Ben-Amots, U-Melgn ‘Mhlaba-Apebo, Dana Lopes, Carolyn De Jesus, Christelle Narcisse, and Aseret Laparra. Write-In audio was recorded by Ilya Methot and Jordan Fischer.The Drum Literary MagazineOn May 19, 2017, GrubStreet hosted Boston's first Write-In. The Drum was on the scene to record some of the many stories told by recent immigrants and refugees. Here are stories by Yanley Francois, Zach Ben-Amots, U-Melgn ‘Mhlaba-Apebo, Dana Lopes, Carolyn De Jesus, Christelle Narcisse, and Aseret Laparra. Write-In audio was recorded by Ilya Methot and Jordan Fischer. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Robert_Alaine_Couture--Zip-Code_Stories.mp3 3:20 Robert Alaine Couture's "Moment of Forgiveness" turns a Williamsburg, Massachusetts orchard into the setting for a fraught moment between lovers old and new. In just three minutes, Couture evokes the complications of long relationships and offers an intriguing twist on the idea of the snake in the garden. "Moment of Forgiveness" is our selection for the February 2013 round of Zip-Code Stories. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Robert_Alaine_Couture--Zip-Code_Stories.mp3 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:41:36 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoRobert Alaine Couture's "Moment of Forgiveness" turns a Williamsburg, Massachusetts orchard into the setting for a fraught moment between lovers old and new. In just three minutes, Couture evokes the complications of long relationships and offers an intriguing twist on the idea of the snake in the garden. "Moment of Forgiveness" is our selection for the February 2013 round of Zip-Code Stories.The Drum Literary MagazineRobert Alaine Couture's "Moment of Forgiveness" turns a Williamsburg, Massachusetts orchard into the setting for a fraught moment between lovers old and new. In just three minutes, Couture evokes the complications of long relationships and offers an intriguing twist on the idea of the snake in the garden. "Moment of Forgiveness" is our selection for the February 2013 round of Zip-Code Stories. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Pagan_Kennedy--How_to_Get_High_on_Compost.mp3 4:06 New York Times columnist Pagan Kennedy takes a whiff of her backyard compost pile and examines the science of terroir. In the seemingly lowly M. vaccae, she finds a rich scientific history and a personal memory--all tied to the soil beneath her feet. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Pagan_Kennedy--How_to_Get_High_on_Compost.mp3 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:54:55 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoNew York Times columnist Pagan Kennedy takes a whiff of her backyard compost pile and examines the science of terroir. In the seemingly lowly M. vaccae, she finds a rich scientific history and a personal memory--all tied to the soil beneath her feet.The Drum Literary MagazineNew York Times columnist Pagan Kennedy takes a whiff of her backyard compost pile and examines the science of terroir. In the seemingly lowly M. vaccae, she finds a rich scientific history and a personal memory--all tied to the soil beneath her feet. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Vijee_Vankatraman--Improbable_Cargo.mp3 3:57 "Improbable Cargo" follows the "frozen-water trade" connecting India and the northeastern United States--from a personal perspective. Vijee Venkatraman muses on her life at each end of this journey of blocks of ice across oceans, and on how something as transient as ice could create a bond that lasted centuries. A version of this essay appeared in the Harvard Book Store's essay collection Paige Leaves. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Vijee_Vankatraman--Improbable_Cargo.mp3 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:17:03 EST The Drum Literary Magazineno"Improbable Cargo" follows the "frozen-water trade" connecting India and the northeastern United States--from a personal perspective. Vijee Venkatraman muses on her life at each end of this journey of blocks of ice across oceans, and on how something as transient as ice could create a bond that lasted centuries. A version of this essay appeared in the Harvard Book Store's essay collection Paige Leaves.The Drum Literary Magazine"Improbable Cargo" follows the "frozen-water trade" connecting India and the northeastern United States--from a personal perspective. Vijee Venkatraman muses on her life at each end of this journey of blocks of ice across oceans, and on how something as transient as ice could create a bond that lasted centuries. A version of this essay appeared in the Harvard Book Store's essay collection Paige Leaves. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jackson_Culpepper--The_Last_Thing_To_Go.mp3 25:59 A violent flood provides the backdrop for the tentative relationship developing in Jackson Culpepper's "The Last Thing To Go." As the storm waters surge, a young man searching for stability--and for connection with the young woman he meets at church--confronts new questions about himself and about the nature of love and salvation. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jackson_Culpepper--The_Last_Thing_To_Go.mp3 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 08:34:25 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoA violent flood provides the backdrop for the tentative relationship developing in Jackson Culpepper's "The Last Thing To Go." As the storm waters surge, a young man searching for stability--and for connection with the young woman he meets at church--confronts new questions about himself and about the nature of love and salvation.The Drum Literary MagazineA violent flood provides the backdrop for the tentative relationship developing in Jackson Culpepper's "The Last Thing To Go." As the storm waters surge, a young man searching for stability--and for connection with the young woman he meets at church--confronts new questions about himself and about the nature of love and salvation. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-D.J._Lee--Collage.mp3 5:59 D.J. Lee's essay "Collage" contemplates the difficult intersection between mothers and daughters, dramatized in the placement of photographs in a collage. Lee's essay explores how a two-dimensional image "can express the depth of pain and love between generations." https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-D.J._Lee--Collage.mp3 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:24:32 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoD.J. Lee's essay "Collage" contemplates the difficult intersection between mothers and daughters, dramatized in the placement of photographs in a collage. Lee's essay explores how a two-dimensional image "can express the depth of pain and love between generations."The Drum Literary MagazineD.J. Lee's essay "Collage" contemplates the difficult intersection between mothers and daughters, dramatized in the placement of photographs in a collage. Lee's essay explores how a two-dimensional image "can express the depth of pain and love between generations." https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Leeyee_Lim--Hereditary.mp3 12:09 The narrator of Leeyee Lim's "Hereditary" is a young girl troubled by her mother's illness and her sister's loss. Sharing a sandwich with a homeless man, she thinks of her family, and the strange ways in which people nourish each other. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Leeyee_Lim--Hereditary.mp3 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:51:22 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe narrator of Leeyee Lim's "Hereditary" is a young girl troubled by her mother's illness and her sister's loss. Sharing a sandwich with a homeless man, she thinks of her family, and the strange ways in which people nourish each other.The Drum Literary MagazineThe narrator of Leeyee Lim's "Hereditary" is a young girl troubled by her mother's illness and her sister's loss. Sharing a sandwich with a homeless man, she thinks of her family, and the strange ways in which people nourish each other. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Steven_Brykman--The_Box.mp3 20:23 Frequent Drum contributor Steven Brykman strikes a serious tone in his essay "The Box" about a childhood visit to his older brother's residence  in a home for people with autism. Brykman tells a dramatic story of his long-ago encounter with a frightening element of his brother's life, and muses on the nature of shared experience, isolation, and love. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Steven_Brykman--The_Box.mp3 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:21:46 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoFrequent Drum contributor Steven Brykman strikes a serious tone in his essay "The Box" about a childhood visit to his older brother's residence  in a home for people with autism. Brykman tells a dramatic story of his long-ago encounter with a frightening element of his brother's life, and muses on the nature of shared experience, isolation, and love.The Drum Literary MagazineFrequent Drum contributor Steven Brykman strikes a serious tone in his essay "The Box" about a childhood visit to his older brother's residence  in a home for people with autism. Brykman tells a dramatic story of his long-ago encounter with a frightening element of his brother's life, and muses on the nature of shared experience, isolation, and love. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Ioanna_Mavrou--Lucky_Cat.mp3 4:03 The narrator of Ioanna Mavrou's "Lucky Cat" invests the eponymous figurine with hope, bravado, and fear in this flash fiction piece about a relationship challenged by illness. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Ioanna_Mavrou--Lucky_Cat.mp3 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:49:30 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe narrator of Ioanna Mavrou's "Lucky Cat" invests the eponymous figurine with hope, bravado, and fear in this flash fiction piece about a relationship challenged by illness.The Drum Literary MagazineThe narrator of Ioanna Mavrou's "Lucky Cat" invests the eponymous figurine with hope, bravado, and fear in this flash fiction piece about a relationship challenged by illness. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Mary_O-squo-Donoghue--Honest_or_Nine_Precious_Insights.mp3 7:52 It's only one sentence, but "Honest, Or Nine Precious Insights" offers a vivid portrait of a man looking for companionship. As he weighs the merits and disadvantages of a blind date at "a tea place," Mary O'Donoghue's narrator expresses both vulnerability and confidence, confusion and insight. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Mary_O-squo-Donoghue--Honest_or_Nine_Precious_Insights.mp3 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:19:43 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoIt's only one sentence, but "Honest, Or Nine Precious Insights" offers a vivid portrait of a man looking for companionship. As he weighs the merits and disadvantages of a blind date at "a tea place," Mary O'Donoghue's narrator expresses both vulnerability and confidence, confusion and insight.The Drum Literary MagazineIt's only one sentence, but "Honest, Or Nine Precious Insights" offers a vivid portrait of a man looking for companionship. As he weighs the merits and disadvantages of a blind date at "a tea place," Mary O'Donoghue's narrator expresses both vulnerability and confidence, confusion and insight. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag0311-633.mp3 3:26 The frailty of the human body and the strength that emerges from one woman's self-scrutiny are the subjects of Joanne Barker's "How To Be Naked". A swimming-pool locker room sets the scene for this unflinching assessment of nakedness in many forms. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag0311-633.mp3 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:11:17 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe frailty of the human body and the strength that emerges from one woman's self-scrutiny are the subjects of Joanne Barker's "How To Be Naked". A swimming-pool locker room sets the scene for this unflinching assessment of nakedness in many forms.The Drum Literary MagazineThe frailty of the human body and the strength that emerges from one woman's self-scrutiny are the subjects of Joanne Barker's "How To Be Naked". A swimming-pool locker room sets the scene for this unflinching assessment of nakedness in many forms. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Ben_Lurie--Looking_Forwards.mp3 3:28 Ben Lurie's "Looking Forward" tells the story of a young man dealing with the loss of his memory. An encounter with someone from his past--a stranger to him now--gives him an ominous sense of who he was and who he might become. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Ben_Lurie--Looking_Forwards.mp3 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:59:42 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoBen Lurie's "Looking Forward" tells the story of a young man dealing with the loss of his memory. An encounter with someone from his past--a stranger to him now--gives him an ominous sense of who he was and who he might become.The Drum Literary MagazineBen Lurie's "Looking Forward" tells the story of a young man dealing with the loss of his memory. An encounter with someone from his past--a stranger to him now--gives him an ominous sense of who he was and who he might become. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jonathan_Starke--Sling_and_Stone.mp3 4:18 Jonathan Starke's "Sling and Stone" looks at Michelangelo's David with the eyes of a bodybuilder--and finds poignant mortality in the timeless statue. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jonathan_Starke--Sling_and_Stone.mp3 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:19:51 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoJonathan Starke's "Sling and Stone" looks at Michelangelo's David with the eyes of a bodybuilder--and finds poignant mortality in the timeless statue.The Drum Literary MagazineJonathan Starke's "Sling and Stone" looks at Michelangelo's David with the eyes of a bodybuilder--and finds poignant mortality in the timeless statue. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Boston_Book_Festival--Great_Brits_and_Books.mp3 1:00:35 Courtesy of the Boston Book Festival, the Great Brits and Books Panel, with Maria Tatar, Rachel Brownstein, Lisa Rodensky, and Leah Price, moderated by Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power. Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, James Barrie, and the Brontës were just some of the authors these scholars discussed during the BBF session on October 27, 2012. Listen to the audio of the panel to hear how books were used as instruments of power in the 19th century, how Jane Austen continues to engage readers today, and how Barrie's Peter Pan explores questions of our own mortality.This session was sponsored by the British Consulate. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Boston_Book_Festival--Great_Brits_and_Books.mp3 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:49:46 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoCourtesy of the Boston Book Festival, the Great Brits and Books Panel, with Maria Tatar, Rachel Brownstein, Lisa Rodensky, and Leah Price, moderated by Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power. Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, James Barrie, and the Brontës were just some of the authors these scholars discussed during the BBF session on October 27, 2012. Listen to the audio of the panel to hear how books were used as instruments of power in the 19th century, how Jane Austen continues to engage readers today, and how Barrie's Peter Pan explores questions of our own mortality.This session was sponsored by the British Consulate.The Drum Literary MagazineCourtesy of the Boston Book Festival, the Great Brits and Books Panel, with Maria Tatar, Rachel Brownstein, Lisa Rodensky, and Leah Price, moderated by Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power. Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, James Barrie, and the Brontës were just some of the authors these scholars discussed during the BBF session on October 27, 2012. Listen to the audio of the panel to hear how books were used as instruments of power in the 19th century, how Jane Austen continues to engage readers today, and how Barrie's Peter Pan explores questions of our own mortality.This session was sponsored by the British Consulate. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Colleen_Fullin--The_Dead_and_The_Drowned.mp3 27:17 Colleen Fullin's "The Dead and The Drowned" focuses in on a teenaged boy in the aftermath of the drownings of young men in his city. Garrison is shaken by their deaths, but unsettled more profoundly in ways that he only comes to understand--if at all--at the story's end. The reader is in for a powerful conclusion to Fullin's tale, as it touches on the complications of identity, desire, and sexuality. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Colleen_Fullin--The_Dead_and_The_Drowned.mp3 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:00:56 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoColleen Fullin's "The Dead and The Drowned" focuses in on a teenaged boy in the aftermath of the drownings of young men in his city. Garrison is shaken by their deaths, but unsettled more profoundly in ways that he only comes to understand--if at all--at the story's end. The reader is in for a powerful conclusion to Fullin's tale, as it touches on the complications of identity, desire, and sexuality.The Drum Literary MagazineColleen Fullin's "The Dead and The Drowned" focuses in on a teenaged boy in the aftermath of the drownings of young men in his city. Garrison is shaken by their deaths, but unsettled more profoundly in ways that he only comes to understand--if at all--at the story's end. The reader is in for a powerful conclusion to Fullin's tale, as it touches on the complications of identity, desire, and sexuality. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Grigg-Saito--Assailing_Otherness.mp3.mp3 19:59 In "Assailing Otherness," Katrina Grigg-Saito confronts the ultimate food taboo and survives to tell the tale.  Grigg-Saito's essay explores the limits different cultures draw around what's approved and what's beyond the pale. Her experience of learning to cook in Laos begins with the desire to get to the heart of a culture and ends with a discovery about her own assumptions and willingness to set them aside. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Grigg-Saito--Assailing_Otherness.mp3.mp3 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:18:19 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn "Assailing Otherness," Katrina Grigg-Saito confronts the ultimate food taboo and survives to tell the tale.  Grigg-Saito's essay explores the limits different cultures draw around what's approved and what's beyond the pale. Her experience of learning to cook in Laos begins with the desire to get to the heart of a culture and ends with a discovery about her own assumptions and willingness to set them aside.The Drum Literary MagazineIn "Assailing Otherness," Katrina Grigg-Saito confronts the ultimate food taboo and survives to tell the tale.  Grigg-Saito's essay explores the limits different cultures draw around what's approved and what's beyond the pale. Her experience of learning to cook in Laos begins with the desire to get to the heart of a culture and ends with a discovery about her own assumptions and willingness to set them aside. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Lisa_Mecham--You_Get_What_You_Get.mp3 34:55 "You Get What You Get" offers an intense story of a woman confronted with her husband's deteriorating mental health.  A trip to the remote suburbs to see a house her husband has purchased brings Jennifer face to face with the dangers in her own home. At the heart of Lisa Mecham's story are detailed character studies of people in crisis. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Lisa_Mecham--You_Get_What_You_Get.mp3 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:15:49 EDT The Drum Literary Magazineno"You Get What You Get" offers an intense story of a woman confronted with her husband's deteriorating mental health.  A trip to the remote suburbs to see a house her husband has purchased brings Jennifer face to face with the dangers in her own home. At the heart of Lisa Mecham's story are detailed character studies of people in crisis.The Drum Literary Magazine"You Get What You Get" offers an intense story of a woman confronted with her husband's deteriorating mental health.  A trip to the remote suburbs to see a house her husband has purchased brings Jennifer face to face with the dangers in her own home. At the heart of Lisa Mecham's story are detailed character studies of people in crisis. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Sandra_Jensen--War.mp3 17:01 In Sandra Jensen's "War", a young South African girl wrestles with her emerging sexuality and with the political, familial, and cultural conflicts taking place around her. Learning about the Boer War in school, Kimberly thinks instead of the more immediate aggression in her mother's relationship with her boyfriend. Attraction and repulsion, love and violence, mingle in this rich story. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Sandra_Jensen--War.mp3 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:46:26 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Sandra Jensen's "War", a young South African girl wrestles with her emerging sexuality and with the political, familial, and cultural conflicts taking place around her. Learning about the Boer War in school, Kimberly thinks instead of the more immediate aggression in her mother's relationship with her boyfriend. Attraction and repulsion, love and violence, mingle in this rich story.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Sandra Jensen's "War", a young South African girl wrestles with her emerging sexuality and with the political, familial, and cultural conflicts taking place around her. Learning about the Boer War in school, Kimberly thinks instead of the more immediate aggression in her mother's relationship with her boyfriend. Attraction and repulsion, love and violence, mingle in this rich story. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Vicky_Grut--Debts.mp3 23:19 Over the course of a slightly chaotic supper, Kay, the protagonist of Vicky Grut's short story "Debts" confronts her social, financial, and emotional obligations. The story is populated by vivid characters--a strange boy who keeps washing Kay's husband's car, Kay's unruly daughter, surprise guests with complicated histories--all of whom come together in a sometimes clashing interaction. Grut brings the story's various elements together in a thoughtful and moving conclusion. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Vicky_Grut--Debts.mp3 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:44:22 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoOver the course of a slightly chaotic supper, Kay, the protagonist of Vicky Grut's short story "Debts" confronts her social, financial, and emotional obligations. The story is populated by vivid characters--a strange boy who keeps washing Kay's husband's car, Kay's unruly daughter, surprise guests with complicated histories--all of whom come together in a sometimes clashing interaction. Grut brings the story's various elements together in a thoughtful and moving conclusion.The Drum Literary MagazineOver the course of a slightly chaotic supper, Kay, the protagonist of Vicky Grut's short story "Debts" confronts her social, financial, and emotional obligations. The story is populated by vivid characters--a strange boy who keeps washing Kay's husband's car, Kay's unruly daughter, surprise guests with complicated histories--all of whom come together in a sometimes clashing interaction. Grut brings the story's various elements together in a thoughtful and moving conclusion. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Elizabeth_O-squo-Brien--Over_Easy.mp3 3:47 A plate of eggs, a map, and a greasy table top inspire a new journey for the young narrator of Elizabeth O'Brien's "Over Easy". O'Brien's vivid and concise writing, and her evocative reading performance, give the listener a strong sense of the narrator's need to just go. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Elizabeth_O-squo-Brien--Over_Easy.mp3 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:14:48 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA plate of eggs, a map, and a greasy table top inspire a new journey for the young narrator of Elizabeth O'Brien's "Over Easy". O'Brien's vivid and concise writing, and her evocative reading performance, give the listener a strong sense of the narrator's need to just go.The Drum Literary MagazineA plate of eggs, a map, and a greasy table top inspire a new journey for the young narrator of Elizabeth O'Brien's "Over Easy". O'Brien's vivid and concise writing, and her evocative reading performance, give the listener a strong sense of the narrator's need to just go. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Andrew_Sullivan--The_Lesser_Half_of_Sir_John_A._Macdonald.mp3 13:43 Andrew Sullivan's narrator names the lesions on his body after the cities where he has endured the loneliness and pain of homelessness. "The Lesser Half of Sir John A. Macdonald" paints a world in which people can be torn in two, like the eponymous Canadian banknote, by the longing to stay put and the need to keep moving. Sullivan's story follows a young man struggling through the consequences of one bad turn, as he makes his way across Canada. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Andrew_Sullivan--The_Lesser_Half_of_Sir_John_A._Macdonald.mp3 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:55:51 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAndrew Sullivan's narrator names the lesions on his body after the cities where he has endured the loneliness and pain of homelessness. "The Lesser Half of Sir John A. Macdonald" paints a world in which people can be torn in two, like the eponymous Canadian banknote, by the longing to stay put and the need to keep moving. Sullivan's story follows a young man struggling through the consequences of one bad turn, as he makes his way across Canada.The Drum Literary MagazineAndrew Sullivan's narrator names the lesions on his body after the cities where he has endured the loneliness and pain of homelessness. "The Lesser Half of Sir John A. Macdonald" paints a world in which people can be torn in two, like the eponymous Canadian banknote, by the longing to stay put and the need to keep moving. Sullivan's story follows a young man struggling through the consequences of one bad turn, as he makes his way across Canada. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Lisa_Korzeniowski--The_Summer_of_Nathan_Nicky.mp3 5:52 Lisa Korzeniowski's "The Summer of Nathan Nicky" watches two young sisters watching a boy--a shirtless boy mowing a lawn next door. As the narrator ogles the boy, she engages in a curious seduction, displaying herself as desirable. This brief story paints a vivid picture of adolescent sexuality and the sensuality of the gaze. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Lisa_Korzeniowski--The_Summer_of_Nathan_Nicky.mp3 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:24:54 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoLisa Korzeniowski's "The Summer of Nathan Nicky" watches two young sisters watching a boy--a shirtless boy mowing a lawn next door. As the narrator ogles the boy, she engages in a curious seduction, displaying herself as desirable. This brief story paints a vivid picture of adolescent sexuality and the sensuality of the gaze.The Drum Literary MagazineLisa Korzeniowski's "The Summer of Nathan Nicky" watches two young sisters watching a boy--a shirtless boy mowing a lawn next door. As the narrator ogles the boy, she engages in a curious seduction, displaying herself as desirable. This brief story paints a vivid picture of adolescent sexuality and the sensuality of the gaze. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-One_City_One_Story__The_Lobster_Mafia_Story_by_Anna_Solomon.mp3 42:11 "The Lobster Mafia Story," by Anna Solomon, is the Boston Book Festival's choice for this year's One City One Story, a project to promote reading and to create community around a shared reading experience. It's a poignant tale set in motion by a widow's dreadful secret about a long-ago murder. The story is read aloud by The Drum's editor, Henriette Lazaridis Power. Anna Solomon will appear at the Boston Book Festival on October 27 to discuss the story.To download the audio recording of "The Lobster Mafia Story," right-click on the download button beside the play button, and save the mp3 to your computer. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-One_City_One_Story__The_Lobster_Mafia_Story_by_Anna_Solomon.mp3 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:06:51 EDT The Drum Literary Magazineno"The Lobster Mafia Story," by Anna Solomon, is the Boston Book Festival's choice for this year's One City One Story, a project to promote reading and to create community around a shared reading experience. It's a poignant tale set in motion by a widow's dreadful secret about a long-ago murder. The story is read aloud by The Drum's editor, Henriette Lazaridis Power. Anna Solomon will appear at the Boston Book Festival on October 27 to discuss the story.To download the audio recording of "The Lobster Mafia Story," right-click on the download button beside the play button, and save the mp3 to your computer.The Drum Literary Magazine"The Lobster Mafia Story," by Anna Solomon, is the Boston Book Festival's choice for this year's One City One Story, a project to promote reading and to create community around a shared reading experience. It's a poignant tale set in motion by a widow's dreadful secret about a long-ago murder. The story is read aloud by The Drum's editor, Henriette Lazaridis Power. Anna Solomon will appear at the Boston Book Festival on October 27 to discuss the story.To download the audio recording of "The Lobster Mafia Story," right-click on the download button beside the play button, and save the mp3 to your computer. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-L.E._Miller--Zip-Code_Stories.mp3 4:23 L.E. Miller's "The Sea Gives" begins with a shard of china floating in the water off Plum Island and ends with a young girl questioning her place in an older woman's life. Along the way, in a brief 500 words, Miller depicts a bond between the two women, a coming together of two different worlds, and the fragility of that relationship. The prompt for this round of Zip-Code Stories was an opening line of "She saw something at the water's edge and. . . ". Listen to hear how "The Sea Gives" concludes that sentence. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-L.E._Miller--Zip-Code_Stories.mp3 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:02:28 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoL.E. Miller's "The Sea Gives" begins with a shard of china floating in the water off Plum Island and ends with a young girl questioning her place in an older woman's life. Along the way, in a brief 500 words, Miller depicts a bond between the two women, a coming together of two different worlds, and the fragility of that relationship. The prompt for this round of Zip-Code Stories was an opening line of "She saw something at the water's edge and. . . ". Listen to hear how "The Sea Gives" concludes that sentence.The Drum Literary MagazineL.E. Miller's "The Sea Gives" begins with a shard of china floating in the water off Plum Island and ends with a young girl questioning her place in an older woman's life. Along the way, in a brief 500 words, Miller depicts a bond between the two women, a coming together of two different worlds, and the fragility of that relationship. The prompt for this round of Zip-Code Stories was an opening line of "She saw something at the water's edge and. . . ". Listen to hear how "The Sea Gives" concludes that sentence. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jessica_Keener--Excerpt_from_Night_Swim.mp3 12:52 Set in affluent Boston surburbia in 1970, Night Swim follows the Kunitz family as tragedy breaks through the country-club lifestyle masking an array of simmering, emotional troubles. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jessica_Keener--Excerpt_from_Night_Swim.mp3 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:33:49 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoSet in affluent Boston surburbia in 1970, Night Swim follows the Kunitz family as tragedy breaks through the country-club lifestyle masking an array of simmering, emotional troubles.The Drum Literary MagazineSet in affluent Boston surburbia in 1970, Night Swim follows the Kunitz family as tragedy breaks through the country-club lifestyle masking an array of simmering, emotional troubles. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Martin_Amis--Interview.mp3 27:43 Martin Amis joined Henriette Lazaridis Power for a conversation on September 7, 2012. Amis spoke about his novel Lionel Asbo: State of England, about why we don't like Dickens' Little Nell, why we still like Jane Austen, and other topics, including religion and writing. The Drum's Audio Editor Ethan Wolff Mann joined in the conversation while Amis took a lunch break at the Keltic Krust Bakery in West Newton, Massachusetts. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Martin_Amis--Interview.mp3 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:39:43 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoMartin Amis joined Henriette Lazaridis Power for a conversation on September 7, 2012. Amis spoke about his novel Lionel Asbo: State of England, about why we don't like Dickens' Little Nell, why we still like Jane Austen, and other topics, including religion and writing. The Drum's Audio Editor Ethan Wolff Mann joined in the conversation while Amis took a lunch break at the Keltic Krust Bakery in West Newton, Massachusetts.The Drum Literary MagazineMartin Amis joined Henriette Lazaridis Power for a conversation on September 7, 2012. Amis spoke about his novel Lionel Asbo: State of England, about why we don't like Dickens' Little Nell, why we still like Jane Austen, and other topics, including religion and writing. The Drum's Audio Editor Ethan Wolff Mann joined in the conversation while Amis took a lunch break at the Keltic Krust Bakery in West Newton, Massachusetts. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Ilie_Ruby--Excerpt_from_The_Salt_God-squo-s_Daughter.mp3 13:18 Ilie Ruby's novel The Salt God's Daughter tells the story of Ruthie and Naida, a mother and daughter bound by loss, by violence, and by family mysteries. In this excerpt, Ruthie describes a storm that sends her, her mother, and her sister into a desperate escape, even as internal storms continue to pursue this small and vulnerable family. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Ilie_Ruby--Excerpt_from_The_Salt_God-squo-s_Daughter.mp3 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:48:44 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIlie Ruby's novel The Salt God's Daughter tells the story of Ruthie and Naida, a mother and daughter bound by loss, by violence, and by family mysteries. In this excerpt, Ruthie describes a storm that sends her, her mother, and her sister into a desperate escape, even as internal storms continue to pursue this small and vulnerable family.The Drum Literary MagazineIlie Ruby's novel The Salt God's Daughter tells the story of Ruthie and Naida, a mother and daughter bound by loss, by violence, and by family mysteries. In this excerpt, Ruthie describes a storm that sends her, her mother, and her sister into a desperate escape, even as internal storms continue to pursue this small and vulnerable family. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Joan_Kane_Nichols--Treasures.mp3 5:06 At this time of year in 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and much of the surrounding area. Joan Kane Nichols's flash fiction "Treasures" sets us down in one woman's home as she and her husband Darryl prepare to evacuate, one of them more readily than the other. The story is a vivid dramatization of the pull of belongings--treasures--as both burden and rescue. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Joan_Kane_Nichols--Treasures.mp3 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:50:09 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAt this time of year in 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and much of the surrounding area. Joan Kane Nichols's flash fiction "Treasures" sets us down in one woman's home as she and her husband Darryl prepare to evacuate, one of them more readily than the other. The story is a vivid dramatization of the pull of belongings--treasures--as both burden and rescue.The Drum Literary MagazineAt this time of year in 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and much of the surrounding area. Joan Kane Nichols's flash fiction "Treasures" sets us down in one woman's home as she and her husband Darryl prepare to evacuate, one of them more readily than the other. The story is a vivid dramatization of the pull of belongings--treasures--as both burden and rescue. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Drum_Literary_Magazine_audio_prompt_-num-1.mp3 :7 Get some audio inspiration from our regularly changing audio prompts and record a three-minute story for The Drum. Send us the audio on our Soundcloud Dropbox--over there on the left-hand side of our home page--and share with Drum listeners and writers. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Drum_Literary_Magazine_audio_prompt_-num-1.mp3 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:49:37 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoGet some audio inspiration from our regularly changing audio prompts and record a three-minute story for The Drum. Send us the audio on our Soundcloud Dropbox--over there on the left-hand side of our home page--and share with Drum listeners and writers.The Drum Literary MagazineGet some audio inspiration from our regularly changing audio prompts and record a three-minute story for The Drum. Send us the audio on our Soundcloud Dropbox--over there on the left-hand side of our home page--and share with Drum listeners and writers. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Prairie_Markussen--Nothing_Special.mp3 4:01 Prairie Markussen's "Nothing Special" tells the short, moving story of an old Korean woman fighting for permanence in her changing city. Am-yeong Im, given the name for babies not expected to survive, patiently and insistently works for the survival of her home. In Markussen's story, a woman's small act of erasure turns into an attempt to make something last. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Prairie_Markussen--Nothing_Special.mp3 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:23:36 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoPrairie Markussen's "Nothing Special" tells the short, moving story of an old Korean woman fighting for permanence in her changing city. Am-yeong Im, given the name for babies not expected to survive, patiently and insistently works for the survival of her home. In Markussen's story, a woman's small act of erasure turns into an attempt to make something last.The Drum Literary MagazinePrairie Markussen's "Nothing Special" tells the short, moving story of an old Korean woman fighting for permanence in her changing city. Am-yeong Im, given the name for babies not expected to survive, patiently and insistently works for the survival of her home. In Markussen's story, a woman's small act of erasure turns into an attempt to make something last. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag3778-536.mp3 16:19 Aine Greaney's essay "Green Card" recounts a trip to renew the eponymous card in Lawrence, MA. As her GPS tries to lead her to the INS office, Greaney meditates on the obstacles and miscommunications of the immigrant's experience. She thinks over her years in the United States, her departure from Ireland, and her sense of belonging to those who don't belong. Greaney's essay offers a thoughtful meditation on cultural and personal identity. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag3778-536.mp3 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:27:48 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAine Greaney's essay "Green Card" recounts a trip to renew the eponymous card in Lawrence, MA. As her GPS tries to lead her to the INS office, Greaney meditates on the obstacles and miscommunications of the immigrant's experience. She thinks over her years in the United States, her departure from Ireland, and her sense of belonging to those who don't belong. Greaney's essay offers a thoughtful meditation on cultural and personal identity.The Drum Literary MagazineAine Greaney's essay "Green Card" recounts a trip to renew the eponymous card in Lawrence, MA. As her GPS tries to lead her to the INS office, Greaney meditates on the obstacles and miscommunications of the immigrant's experience. She thinks over her years in the United States, her departure from Ireland, and her sense of belonging to those who don't belong. Greaney's essay offers a thoughtful meditation on cultural and personal identity. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Mary_Medlin--Not_Now_But_Soon.mp3 46:10 Mary Medlin's short story "Not Now But Soon" follows Connor as he crosses Somerville to pay the rent on his girlfriend's apartment. But Afshan is dead, and the tragic event that caused her death haunts Connor, rendering his rent-payments a tangible form of inadequate expiation. The story is shot through with themes of atonement and guilt as it offers an in-depth portrait of a young man and woman as they fall in love. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Mary_Medlin--Not_Now_But_Soon.mp3 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:08:44 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoMary Medlin's short story "Not Now But Soon" follows Connor as he crosses Somerville to pay the rent on his girlfriend's apartment. But Afshan is dead, and the tragic event that caused her death haunts Connor, rendering his rent-payments a tangible form of inadequate expiation. The story is shot through with themes of atonement and guilt as it offers an in-depth portrait of a young man and woman as they fall in love.The Drum Literary MagazineMary Medlin's short story "Not Now But Soon" follows Connor as he crosses Somerville to pay the rent on his girlfriend's apartment. But Afshan is dead, and the tragic event that caused her death haunts Connor, rendering his rent-payments a tangible form of inadequate expiation. The story is shot through with themes of atonement and guilt as it offers an in-depth portrait of a young man and woman as they fall in love. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Charles_Rafferty--Dump.mp3 3:14 In Charles Rafferty's "Dump," a simple garbage trip becomes a test of a newly single father's need for his children's safety. While he worries, they are carefree. He is left to ponder his daughters' responses to a world in which people leave--sometimes without returning. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Charles_Rafferty--Dump.mp3 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:43:10 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Charles Rafferty's "Dump," a simple garbage trip becomes a test of a newly single father's need for his children's safety. While he worries, they are carefree. He is left to ponder his daughters' responses to a world in which people leave--sometimes without returning.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Charles Rafferty's "Dump," a simple garbage trip becomes a test of a newly single father's need for his children's safety. While he worries, they are carefree. He is left to ponder his daughters' responses to a world in which people leave--sometimes without returning. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Sabina_Murray--Balboa.mp3 20:27 Sabina Murray's "Balboa" imagines the explorer in 1513 as he climbs a ridge on the Isthmus of Panama and sees the Pacific Ocean. "Balboa," Murray writes from the explorer's point of view, "is that divining line between the modern and the primitive." In this story, from her collection Tales of the New World, Murray investigates the meaning of civilization, discovery, and the foreign, and makes us consider the intersection of power and desire. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Sabina_Murray--Balboa.mp3 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:23:27 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoSabina Murray's "Balboa" imagines the explorer in 1513 as he climbs a ridge on the Isthmus of Panama and sees the Pacific Ocean. "Balboa," Murray writes from the explorer's point of view, "is that divining line between the modern and the primitive." In this story, from her collection Tales of the New World, Murray investigates the meaning of civilization, discovery, and the foreign, and makes us consider the intersection of power and desire.The Drum Literary MagazineSabina Murray's "Balboa" imagines the explorer in 1513 as he climbs a ridge on the Isthmus of Panama and sees the Pacific Ocean. "Balboa," Murray writes from the explorer's point of view, "is that divining line between the modern and the primitive." In this story, from her collection Tales of the New World, Murray investigates the meaning of civilization, discovery, and the foreign, and makes us consider the intersection of power and desire. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jen_Bergmark--Turn_of_the_Century.mp3 44:08 "The world will end soon." So says the protagonist of Jen Bergmark's "Turn of the Century." An old rock and roller who views himself as a has-been, the singer is fascinated by Nostradamus and by predictions that the millennium will send us all into chaos. He looks ahead to New Year's of 2000 as the confirmation of the ending he has experienced in his career and his life. But when a young concert promoter recognizes him at an LA flea market, his life, like the century, takes a different turn. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jen_Bergmark--Turn_of_the_Century.mp3 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:29:11 EDT The Drum Literary Magazineno"The world will end soon." So says the protagonist of Jen Bergmark's "Turn of the Century." An old rock and roller who views himself as a has-been, the singer is fascinated by Nostradamus and by predictions that the millennium will send us all into chaos. He looks ahead to New Year's of 2000 as the confirmation of the ending he has experienced in his career and his life. But when a young concert promoter recognizes him at an LA flea market, his life, like the century, takes a different turn.The Drum Literary Magazine"The world will end soon." So says the protagonist of Jen Bergmark's "Turn of the Century." An old rock and roller who views himself as a has-been, the singer is fascinated by Nostradamus and by predictions that the millennium will send us all into chaos. He looks ahead to New Year's of 2000 as the confirmation of the ending he has experienced in his career and his life. But when a young concert promoter recognizes him at an LA flea market, his life, like the century, takes a different turn. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Kim_Savage--Zip-Code_Stories.mp3 3:42 The narrator of Kim Savage's "The Fells" tells the chiling story of her abduction from this remote part of Winchester, Massachusetts (01890). Describing a routine fells run turned dangerous, the story hints at the complicated relationships between the abductor, the intended victim, and the girl who took her place. "The Fells" is the featured Zip-Code Story for June 2012, as part of The Drum's project with WBUR's Radio Boston. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Kim_Savage--Zip-Code_Stories.mp3 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:27:38 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe narrator of Kim Savage's "The Fells" tells the chiling story of her abduction from this remote part of Winchester, Massachusetts (01890). Describing a routine fells run turned dangerous, the story hints at the complicated relationships between the abductor, the intended victim, and the girl who took her place. "The Fells" is the featured Zip-Code Story for June 2012, as part of The Drum's project with WBUR's Radio Boston.The Drum Literary MagazineThe narrator of Kim Savage's "The Fells" tells the chiling story of her abduction from this remote part of Winchester, Massachusetts (01890). Describing a routine fells run turned dangerous, the story hints at the complicated relationships between the abductor, the intended victim, and the girl who took her place. "The Fells" is the featured Zip-Code Story for June 2012, as part of The Drum's project with WBUR's Radio Boston. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Rosie_Sultan--excerpt_from_Helen_Keller_in_Love.mp3 23:42 Rosie Sultan reads from her novel Helen Keller in Love (Viking 2012), specifically, the episode in which Keller first meets Peter Fagan, the man she was to fall in love with. The excerpt offers a vivid sense of Keller's world, in which messages are communicated by signs in her palm, and sounds are felt through vibration. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Rosie_Sultan--excerpt_from_Helen_Keller_in_Love.mp3 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 17:02:54 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoRosie Sultan reads from her novel Helen Keller in Love (Viking 2012), specifically, the episode in which Keller first meets Peter Fagan, the man she was to fall in love with. The excerpt offers a vivid sense of Keller's world, in which messages are communicated by signs in her palm, and sounds are felt through vibration.The Drum Literary MagazineRosie Sultan reads from her novel Helen Keller in Love (Viking 2012), specifically, the episode in which Keller first meets Peter Fagan, the man she was to fall in love with. The excerpt offers a vivid sense of Keller's world, in which messages are communicated by signs in her palm, and sounds are felt through vibration. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Anita_Diamant--excerpt_from_Day_After_Night.mp3 18:46 Anita Diamant's novel Day After Night tells the story of four women among the two hundred prisoners of the Atlit internment camp, a prison for “illegal” immigrants run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast south of Haifa. Diamant reads the Prologue and "Waiting" from Part One, focusing in on Tedi, a young Dutch woman prisoner trying to make sense of life in Barracks C. When a train brings new arrivals to the camp, Tedi must resist the urge to remember her home and her lost life, lest the memories overwhelm her. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Anita_Diamant--excerpt_from_Day_After_Night.mp3 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:08:19 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAnita Diamant's novel Day After Night tells the story of four women among the two hundred prisoners of the Atlit internment camp, a prison for “illegal” immigrants run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast south of Haifa. Diamant reads the Prologue and "Waiting" from Part One, focusing in on Tedi, a young Dutch woman prisoner trying to make sense of life in Barracks C. When a train brings new arrivals to the camp, Tedi must resist the urge to remember her home and her lost life, lest the memories overwhelm her.The Drum Literary MagazineAnita Diamant's novel Day After Night tells the story of four women among the two hundred prisoners of the Atlit internment camp, a prison for “illegal” immigrants run by the British military near the Mediterranean coast south of Haifa. Diamant reads the Prologue and "Waiting" from Part One, focusing in on Tedi, a young Dutch woman prisoner trying to make sense of life in Barracks C. When a train brings new arrivals to the camp, Tedi must resist the urge to remember her home and her lost life, lest the memories overwhelm her. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_Tempest_at_Coney_Island.mp3 1:40 The Drum's Stories on the Street project brings Shakespeare to Coney Island. This place of temporary pleasures was a fitting location for Sara Fetherolf to record visitors reading Prospero's well-known speech from The Tempest. This recording may be the only time that "our revels now are ended" is captured with the ambient sounds of a roller-coaster. To read along from Shakespeare's text, click Project Gutenberg here. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_Tempest_at_Coney_Island.mp3 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:03:02 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe Drum's Stories on the Street project brings Shakespeare to Coney Island. This place of temporary pleasures was a fitting location for Sara Fetherolf to record visitors reading Prospero's well-known speech from The Tempest. This recording may be the only time that "our revels now are ended" is captured with the ambient sounds of a roller-coaster. To read along from Shakespeare's text, click Project Gutenberg here.The Drum Literary MagazineThe Drum's Stories on the Street project brings Shakespeare to Coney Island. This place of temporary pleasures was a fitting location for Sara Fetherolf to record visitors reading Prospero's well-known speech from The Tempest. This recording may be the only time that "our revels now are ended" is captured with the ambient sounds of a roller-coaster. To read along from Shakespeare's text, click Project Gutenberg here. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Bharati_Mukherjee--The_Going-Back_Party.mp3 27:13 A farewell gathering held by the Calcutta Heritage Society of Northern California is the starting point for Bharati Mukherjee's story "The Going-Back Party". Shefali Sinha watches as the actions of the guests reveal the envy, nostalgia, and uncertainty that direct their interactions. The story goes on to offer a wry and insightful meditation on distance and closeness, and on the ways in which our emotions can surprise us. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Bharati_Mukherjee--The_Going-Back_Party.mp3 Tue, 29 May 2012 10:21:01 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA farewell gathering held by the Calcutta Heritage Society of Northern California is the starting point for Bharati Mukherjee's story "The Going-Back Party". Shefali Sinha watches as the actions of the guests reveal the envy, nostalgia, and uncertainty that direct their interactions. The story goes on to offer a wry and insightful meditation on distance and closeness, and on the ways in which our emotions can surprise us.The Drum Literary MagazineA farewell gathering held by the Calcutta Heritage Society of Northern California is the starting point for Bharati Mukherjee's story "The Going-Back Party". Shefali Sinha watches as the actions of the guests reveal the envy, nostalgia, and uncertainty that direct their interactions. The story goes on to offer a wry and insightful meditation on distance and closeness, and on the ways in which our emotions can surprise us. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Kamela_Jordan--Fried_Locusts.mp3 11:42 Kamela Jordan's "Fried Locusts" evokes a childhood spent in Thailand and a child's world of discovery, rivalrly, and allegiance. Jordan's essay hints at the ways in which the distinction between the exotic and the familiar blurs and shifts. Through a tale of children catching locusts to eat, she raises interesting questions about the nature of home. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Kamela_Jordan--Fried_Locusts.mp3 Thu, 17 May 2012 23:14:31 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoKamela Jordan's "Fried Locusts" evokes a childhood spent in Thailand and a child's world of discovery, rivalrly, and allegiance. Jordan's essay hints at the ways in which the distinction between the exotic and the familiar blurs and shifts. Through a tale of children catching locusts to eat, she raises interesting questions about the nature of home.The Drum Literary MagazineKamela Jordan's "Fried Locusts" evokes a childhood spent in Thailand and a child's world of discovery, rivalrly, and allegiance. Jordan's essay hints at the ways in which the distinction between the exotic and the familiar blurs and shifts. Through a tale of children catching locusts to eat, she raises interesting questions about the nature of home. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jean_Ryan--Migration.mp3 37:49 A broken marriage and a change of scenery find the protagonist of Jean Ryan's "Migration" examining her past and planning a future in northern California. A flock of geese by her house, and one particular goose who refuses to leave, lead Erica to consider old bonds and new loyalties as she charts a new life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jean_Ryan--Migration.mp3 Mon, 14 May 2012 12:41:00 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA broken marriage and a change of scenery find the protagonist of Jean Ryan's "Migration" examining her past and planning a future in northern California. A flock of geese by her house, and one particular goose who refuses to leave, lead Erica to consider old bonds and new loyalties as she charts a new life.The Drum Literary MagazineA broken marriage and a change of scenery find the protagonist of Jean Ryan's "Migration" examining her past and planning a future in northern California. A flock of geese by her house, and one particular goose who refuses to leave, lead Erica to consider old bonds and new loyalties as she charts a new life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Colette_Sartor--Daredevil.mp3 35:41 In Colette Sartor's "Daredevil," a little girl becomes the catalyst for unsettling and then tragic events in the lives of a young mother, Grace, and her son Aidan. The story explores issues of faith, risk-taking, and the limits of sympathy, and looks at the many ways in which a home can be threatened. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Colette_Sartor--Daredevil.mp3 Mon, 07 May 2012 13:24:14 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Colette Sartor's "Daredevil," a little girl becomes the catalyst for unsettling and then tragic events in the lives of a young mother, Grace, and her son Aidan. The story explores issues of faith, risk-taking, and the limits of sympathy, and looks at the many ways in which a home can be threatened.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Colette Sartor's "Daredevil," a little girl becomes the catalyst for unsettling and then tragic events in the lives of a young mother, Grace, and her son Aidan. The story explores issues of faith, risk-taking, and the limits of sympathy, and looks at the many ways in which a home can be threatened. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Stories_on_the_Street--Dante-squo-s_Inferno.mp3 2:18 Stories on the Street went underground in April to record Dante's Inferno. Dante's journey through the underworld begins at the gateway warning of the horrors awaiting within. The Drum's Sara Fetherolf went into the New York City subway to ask ordinary people to read from this classic text. Click here to read along on Project Gutenberg. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Stories_on_the_Street--Dante-squo-s_Inferno.mp3 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:50:29 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoStories on the Street went underground in April to record Dante's Inferno. Dante's journey through the underworld begins at the gateway warning of the horrors awaiting within. The Drum's Sara Fetherolf went into the New York City subway to ask ordinary people to read from this classic text. Click here to read along on Project Gutenberg.The Drum Literary MagazineStories on the Street went underground in April to record Dante's Inferno. Dante's journey through the underworld begins at the gateway warning of the horrors awaiting within. The Drum's Sara Fetherolf went into the New York City subway to ask ordinary people to read from this classic text. Click here to read along on Project Gutenberg. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Daniel_Davis--West_Texas_Tears.mp3 15:02 Daniel Davis brings a modern sensibility to the cowboys-and-Indians tale in "West Texas Tears". In his short story, two lawmen come upon a land-grabbers' home where Indians have left only one little girl alive. The narrator, Horace, wrestles with what's fair and what's just as he comes upon a surviving Indian caught in barbed wire. Davis' story is a subtle study of the complications of justice and belonging. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Daniel_Davis--West_Texas_Tears.mp3 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:26:57 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoDaniel Davis brings a modern sensibility to the cowboys-and-Indians tale in "West Texas Tears". In his short story, two lawmen come upon a land-grabbers' home where Indians have left only one little girl alive. The narrator, Horace, wrestles with what's fair and what's just as he comes upon a surviving Indian caught in barbed wire. Davis' story is a subtle study of the complications of justice and belonging.The Drum Literary MagazineDaniel Davis brings a modern sensibility to the cowboys-and-Indians tale in "West Texas Tears". In his short story, two lawmen come upon a land-grabbers' home where Indians have left only one little girl alive. The narrator, Horace, wrestles with what's fair and what's just as he comes upon a surviving Indian caught in barbed wire. Davis' story is a subtle study of the complications of justice and belonging. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jyotsna_Sreenivasan--Home.mp3 30:00 Jyotsna Sreenivasan's "Home" explores exactly the nature of that concept for young Amiya as she returns to 1970s Ohio after several years of childhood in her native India. She is in the position of being both immigrant and emigrant at the same time. As Amiya navigates her return to American culture and second grade, Sreenivasan sheds new insight on what it means to belong and to be different. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jyotsna_Sreenivasan--Home.mp3 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:53:18 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJyotsna Sreenivasan's "Home" explores exactly the nature of that concept for young Amiya as she returns to 1970s Ohio after several years of childhood in her native India. She is in the position of being both immigrant and emigrant at the same time. As Amiya navigates her return to American culture and second grade, Sreenivasan sheds new insight on what it means to belong and to be different.The Drum Literary MagazineJyotsna Sreenivasan's "Home" explores exactly the nature of that concept for young Amiya as she returns to 1970s Ohio after several years of childhood in her native India. She is in the position of being both immigrant and emigrant at the same time. As Amiya navigates her return to American culture and second grade, Sreenivasan sheds new insight on what it means to belong and to be different. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Angela_Foster--Shards_of_Glass.mp3 13:26 Angela Foster's "Shards of Glass" finds a brother and sister fighting their step-father with whatever tools they have--a knife, a gun, anger, and rejection. But books, escape, and the imagination turn out to be just as powerful as these young people stand up to the bully who runs their house. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Angela_Foster--Shards_of_Glass.mp3 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:52:45 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAngela Foster's "Shards of Glass" finds a brother and sister fighting their step-father with whatever tools they have--a knife, a gun, anger, and rejection. But books, escape, and the imagination turn out to be just as powerful as these young people stand up to the bully who runs their house.The Drum Literary MagazineAngela Foster's "Shards of Glass" finds a brother and sister fighting their step-father with whatever tools they have--a knife, a gun, anger, and rejection. But books, escape, and the imagination turn out to be just as powerful as these young people stand up to the bully who runs their house. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Daniel_Roberts--Zip-Code_Stories.mp3 3:13 Daniel Roberts' story "Sandwich" is our Zip-Code Stories winner for this month--and our first piece of fiction to win in the Zip-Code Stories project. "Sandwich" is set in the eponymous Cape town, where Eugene's wife Jan has decided to take him to resolve certain issues in their long marriage. Is Eugene a victim of hypochondria, or an aging American man plagued by the standard ills of body, mind, and psyche? In Sandwich, he takes matters into his own hands. Listen to the piece to see if you think it's a lighthearted or a cynical conclusion. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Daniel_Roberts--Zip-Code_Stories.mp3 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:50:57 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoDaniel Roberts' story "Sandwich" is our Zip-Code Stories winner for this month--and our first piece of fiction to win in the Zip-Code Stories project. "Sandwich" is set in the eponymous Cape town, where Eugene's wife Jan has decided to take him to resolve certain issues in their long marriage. Is Eugene a victim of hypochondria, or an aging American man plagued by the standard ills of body, mind, and psyche? In Sandwich, he takes matters into his own hands. Listen to the piece to see if you think it's a lighthearted or a cynical conclusion.The Drum Literary MagazineDaniel Roberts' story "Sandwich" is our Zip-Code Stories winner for this month--and our first piece of fiction to win in the Zip-Code Stories project. "Sandwich" is set in the eponymous Cape town, where Eugene's wife Jan has decided to take him to resolve certain issues in their long marriage. Is Eugene a victim of hypochondria, or an aging American man plagued by the standard ills of body, mind, and psyche? In Sandwich, he takes matters into his own hands. Listen to the piece to see if you think it's a lighthearted or a cynical conclusion. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Eric_Weinberger--Once_More_With_Feeling.mp3 22:17 Eric Weinberger's "Once More With Feeling" is a story of fidelity and infidelity set in the world of guided tourism. The story's protagonist Adam steers his tour groups around locales emblematic of diplomacy and international negotiation as he encounters one couple who seem to manage a diplomatic menage of their own. The narrative follows him as he studies these two and contemplates a crisis in his own relationship. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Eric_Weinberger--Once_More_With_Feeling.mp3 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:24:52 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoEric Weinberger's "Once More With Feeling" is a story of fidelity and infidelity set in the world of guided tourism. The story's protagonist Adam steers his tour groups around locales emblematic of diplomacy and international negotiation as he encounters one couple who seem to manage a diplomatic menage of their own. The narrative follows him as he studies these two and contemplates a crisis in his own relationship.The Drum Literary MagazineEric Weinberger's "Once More With Feeling" is a story of fidelity and infidelity set in the world of guided tourism. The story's protagonist Adam steers his tour groups around locales emblematic of diplomacy and international negotiation as he encounters one couple who seem to manage a diplomatic menage of their own. The narrative follows him as he studies these two and contemplates a crisis in his own relationship. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Eleni_Gage--Interview.mp3 46:15 Eleni Gage met with Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power on February 29, 2012 for an interview at Newtonville Books in Newton, Massachusetts. Gage spoke about her new novel Other Waters, about living with two cultures and more than two languages, and about aspects of Greek history and of her own family's history. The conversation ranged as well into dicussion of the notion of the curse--a key element of her novel--and how the practical and scientific world and the more mystical world of curses and fate intersect and combine. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Eleni_Gage--Interview.mp3 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:34:59 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoEleni Gage met with Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power on February 29, 2012 for an interview at Newtonville Books in Newton, Massachusetts. Gage spoke about her new novel Other Waters, about living with two cultures and more than two languages, and about aspects of Greek history and of her own family's history. The conversation ranged as well into dicussion of the notion of the curse--a key element of her novel--and how the practical and scientific world and the more mystical world of curses and fate intersect and combine.The Drum Literary MagazineEleni Gage met with Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power on February 29, 2012 for an interview at Newtonville Books in Newton, Massachusetts. Gage spoke about her new novel Other Waters, about living with two cultures and more than two languages, and about aspects of Greek history and of her own family's history. The conversation ranged as well into dicussion of the notion of the curse--a key element of her novel--and how the practical and scientific world and the more mystical world of curses and fate intersect and combine. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-James_Claffey--Placenta.mp3 3:39 "Placenta" completes the trio of flash fiction pieces from Irish writer James Claffey for The Drum. Here, a son watches as his parents react to a miscarriage. Themes of pain and nourishment run through this narrative which concludes with a strange communion between mother and child. To hear the other two flash fiction pieces by James Claffey, click here. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-James_Claffey--Placenta.mp3 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:36:00 EDT The Drum Literary Magazineno"Placenta" completes the trio of flash fiction pieces from Irish writer James Claffey for The Drum. Here, a son watches as his parents react to a miscarriage. Themes of pain and nourishment run through this narrative which concludes with a strange communion between mother and child. To hear the other two flash fiction pieces by James Claffey, click here.The Drum Literary Magazine"Placenta" completes the trio of flash fiction pieces from Irish writer James Claffey for The Drum. Here, a son watches as his parents react to a miscarriage. Themes of pain and nourishment run through this narrative which concludes with a strange communion between mother and child. To hear the other two flash fiction pieces by James Claffey, click here. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag2190-479.mp3 18:20 A teenaged girl narrates John Haggerty's "The Other Half of Graceland," describing a trip to the eponymous home of Elvis along with her mother, who is looking for what the magazines call more pizzazz in her life. Armed with a make-up kit, an expertise for matching blush to skin tone, and a keen eye for adult behavior, Lisa steers them through their pilgrimage and tries to mediate the relationship between a young man they meet there and his father. As Lisa manages her mother's own delicate emotions, Graceland becomes the setting for the revelation of flaws and for the discovery that some flaws are only imagined. "The Other Half of Graceland" is read aloud by Megan Biglow. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag2190-479.mp3 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:14:28 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA teenaged girl narrates John Haggerty's "The Other Half of Graceland," describing a trip to the eponymous home of Elvis along with her mother, who is looking for what the magazines call more pizzazz in her life. Armed with a make-up kit, an expertise for matching blush to skin tone, and a keen eye for adult behavior, Lisa steers them through their pilgrimage and tries to mediate the relationship between a young man they meet there and his father. As Lisa manages her mother's own delicate emotions, Graceland becomes the setting for the revelation of flaws and for the discovery that some flaws are only imagined. "The Other Half of Graceland" is read aloud by Megan Biglow.The Drum Literary MagazineA teenaged girl narrates John Haggerty's "The Other Half of Graceland," describing a trip to the eponymous home of Elvis along with her mother, who is looking for what the magazines call more pizzazz in her life. Armed with a make-up kit, an expertise for matching blush to skin tone, and a keen eye for adult behavior, Lisa steers them through their pilgrimage and tries to mediate the relationship between a young man they meet there and his father. As Lisa manages her mother's own delicate emotions, Graceland becomes the setting for the revelation of flaws and for the discovery that some flaws are only imagined. "The Other Half of Graceland" is read aloud by Megan Biglow. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Stories_on_the_Street--_poems_by_Emily_Dickinson.mp3 2:14 Stories on the Street gives several voices to three poems by Emily Dickinson, read aloud near the national-debt clock in New York's Union Square, by New York's Con-Ed building, and in front of the Waverley Social Security office. Click here and here to follow along as you listen to passersby recite the poems "'Remember me' implored the Thief!", "There's a certain slant of light," and "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?". Stories on the Street intern Sara Fetherolf recorded and produced this audio for The Drum. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Stories_on_the_Street--_poems_by_Emily_Dickinson.mp3 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:52:53 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoStories on the Street gives several voices to three poems by Emily Dickinson, read aloud near the national-debt clock in New York's Union Square, by New York's Con-Ed building, and in front of the Waverley Social Security office. Click here and here to follow along as you listen to passersby recite the poems "'Remember me' implored the Thief!", "There's a certain slant of light," and "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?". Stories on the Street intern Sara Fetherolf recorded and produced this audio for The Drum.The Drum Literary MagazineStories on the Street gives several voices to three poems by Emily Dickinson, read aloud near the national-debt clock in New York's Union Square, by New York's Con-Ed building, and in front of the Waverley Social Security office. Click here and here to follow along as you listen to passersby recite the poems "'Remember me' implored the Thief!", "There's a certain slant of light," and "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?". Stories on the Street intern Sara Fetherolf recorded and produced this audio for The Drum. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Annemarie_Neary--Firebird.mp3 31:32 The burning of an opera house, a rivalry between two sisters, self-creation in Venice--these are all elements of Annemarie Neary's short story "Firebird". Its narrative threads woven together like those of an opera, Neary's story mines the relationship between Elvira and Betsy (or Betzi, as she renames herself) and their ongoing attempts to define themselves against and with each other. The story is a meditation on identity and art, originality and imitation. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Annemarie_Neary--Firebird.mp3 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:22:53 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe burning of an opera house, a rivalry between two sisters, self-creation in Venice--these are all elements of Annemarie Neary's short story "Firebird". Its narrative threads woven together like those of an opera, Neary's story mines the relationship between Elvira and Betsy (or Betzi, as she renames herself) and their ongoing attempts to define themselves against and with each other. The story is a meditation on identity and art, originality and imitation.The Drum Literary MagazineThe burning of an opera house, a rivalry between two sisters, self-creation in Venice--these are all elements of Annemarie Neary's short story "Firebird". Its narrative threads woven together like those of an opera, Neary's story mines the relationship between Elvira and Betsy (or Betzi, as she renames herself) and their ongoing attempts to define themselves against and with each other. The story is a meditation on identity and art, originality and imitation. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-jamesobrienpennedup.mp3 6:10 James O'Brien's "Penned Up" tells a soldier's story. In a laconic tone that still hints at the pain of his experience, the narrator describes the heat, the smells, and the tragedy of his tour in Iraq. "Penned Up" is about detachment and loyalty, isolation and belonging, and expectations met and withheld. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-jamesobrienpennedup.mp3 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:13:51 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoJames O'Brien's "Penned Up" tells a soldier's story. In a laconic tone that still hints at the pain of his experience, the narrator describes the heat, the smells, and the tragedy of his tour in Iraq. "Penned Up" is about detachment and loyalty, isolation and belonging, and expectations met and withheld.The Drum Literary MagazineJames O'Brien's "Penned Up" tells a soldier's story. In a laconic tone that still hints at the pain of his experience, the narrator describes the heat, the smells, and the tragedy of his tour in Iraq. "Penned Up" is about detachment and loyalty, isolation and belonging, and expectations met and withheld. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag4794-466.mp3 7:25 Missed the first Lounge Lit event in our series with the Boston Book Festival and WBUR's Radio Boston? Catch some excerpts from the night here, from stories by Holly LeCraw, Dawn Tripp, Lisa Rogers, and our Open Mic participants. And whet your appetite for the other two Lounge Lit events on March 8th and April 19th. For more info, visit bostonbookfest.org. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag4794-466.mp3 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:01:12 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoMissed the first Lounge Lit event in our series with the Boston Book Festival and WBUR's Radio Boston? Catch some excerpts from the night here, from stories by Holly LeCraw, Dawn Tripp, Lisa Rogers, and our Open Mic participants. And whet your appetite for the other two Lounge Lit events on March 8th and April 19th. For more info, visit bostonbookfest.org.The Drum Literary MagazineMissed the first Lounge Lit event in our series with the Boston Book Festival and WBUR's Radio Boston? Catch some excerpts from the night here, from stories by Holly LeCraw, Dawn Tripp, Lisa Rogers, and our Open Mic participants. And whet your appetite for the other two Lounge Lit events on March 8th and April 19th. For more info, visit bostonbookfest.org. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Vanessa_Blakeslee--Welcome_Lost_Dogs.mp3 38:19 The narrator of Vanessa Blakeslee's "Welcome, Lost Dogs" offers a combination of mercy and practicality, sentiment and realism, as she tries to recover her dogs, stolen from her Costa Rican ranch. An expat American, riding the borders between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, she encounters--and is part of--a world in which everything and everyone has a value to be assessed and calculated. She tries to find her way among old relationships and new communities, thinking about what she hast lost and what she might restore. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Vanessa_Blakeslee--Welcome_Lost_Dogs.mp3 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:20:19 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe narrator of Vanessa Blakeslee's "Welcome, Lost Dogs" offers a combination of mercy and practicality, sentiment and realism, as she tries to recover her dogs, stolen from her Costa Rican ranch. An expat American, riding the borders between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, she encounters--and is part of--a world in which everything and everyone has a value to be assessed and calculated. She tries to find her way among old relationships and new communities, thinking about what she hast lost and what she might restore.The Drum Literary MagazineThe narrator of Vanessa Blakeslee's "Welcome, Lost Dogs" offers a combination of mercy and practicality, sentiment and realism, as she tries to recover her dogs, stolen from her Costa Rican ranch. An expat American, riding the borders between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, she encounters--and is part of--a world in which everything and everyone has a value to be assessed and calculated. She tries to find her way among old relationships and new communities, thinking about what she hast lost and what she might restore. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-James_Claffey--A_Hoor_of_a_Day.mp3 3:19 James Claffey returns to The Drum with the second of three short pieces. This one, "A Hoor of a Day," finds the narrator confronting his Da in his coffin. Even from his box, the man has the power to intrude on his son's thoughts and his memories, the father's phrases and aphorisms serving as an unsettling coda to his life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-James_Claffey--A_Hoor_of_a_Day.mp3 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:53:05 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoJames Claffey returns to The Drum with the second of three short pieces. This one, "A Hoor of a Day," finds the narrator confronting his Da in his coffin. Even from his box, the man has the power to intrude on his son's thoughts and his memories, the father's phrases and aphorisms serving as an unsettling coda to his life.The Drum Literary MagazineJames Claffey returns to The Drum with the second of three short pieces. This one, "A Hoor of a Day," finds the narrator confronting his Da in his coffin. Even from his box, the man has the power to intrude on his son's thoughts and his memories, the father's phrases and aphorisms serving as an unsettling coda to his life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Stories_on_the_Street--Andrew_Marvell-squo-s__To_His_Coy_Mistress_.mp3 3:27 To celebrate Valentine's Day, The Drum's Stories on the Street project presents Andrew Marvell's 17th-century poem "To His Coy Mistress," read aloud by the denizens of two East Village singles bars on the weekend before the notorious holiday. The first reader fights off tears in his eyes; the second is the bartender, who brings drama and emotion to the text; all the readers offer a contemporary take on Marvell's poem about love, lust, and desperation. This audio of "To His Coy Mistress" was recorded and produced by Stories on the Street intern Sara Fetherolf. follow the recording with the text of "To His Coy Mistress" on Poets.org https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Stories_on_the_Street--Andrew_Marvell-squo-s__To_His_Coy_Mistress_.mp3 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:41:34 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoTo celebrate Valentine's Day, The Drum's Stories on the Street project presents Andrew Marvell's 17th-century poem "To His Coy Mistress," read aloud by the denizens of two East Village singles bars on the weekend before the notorious holiday. The first reader fights off tears in his eyes; the second is the bartender, who brings drama and emotion to the text; all the readers offer a contemporary take on Marvell's poem about love, lust, and desperation. This audio of "To His Coy Mistress" was recorded and produced by Stories on the Street intern Sara Fetherolf. follow the recording with the text of "To His Coy Mistress" on Poets.orgThe Drum Literary MagazineTo celebrate Valentine's Day, The Drum's Stories on the Street project presents Andrew Marvell's 17th-century poem "To His Coy Mistress," read aloud by the denizens of two East Village singles bars on the weekend before the notorious holiday. The first reader fights off tears in his eyes; the second is the bartender, who brings drama and emotion to the text; all the readers offer a contemporary take on Marvell's poem about love, lust, and desperation. This audio of "To His Coy Mistress" was recorded and produced by Stories on the Street intern Sara Fetherolf. follow the recording with the text of "To His Coy Mistress" on Poets.org https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Lisa_Rogers--Zip-Code_Stories.mp3 3:37 Lisa Roger's "Off the Map" is our selection for the January round of our Zip-Code Stories project with WBUR's Radio Boston. Rogers' "Off the Map"--about Wellesley's 02482--plays with the very idea of zip codes, describing the ways in which Morse's Pond transcends categorization, connecting two towns, and multiple communities, especially in winter when the ice forms a beautiful link. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Lisa_Rogers--Zip-Code_Stories.mp3 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:48:08 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoLisa Roger's "Off the Map" is our selection for the January round of our Zip-Code Stories project with WBUR's Radio Boston. Rogers' "Off the Map"--about Wellesley's 02482--plays with the very idea of zip codes, describing the ways in which Morse's Pond transcends categorization, connecting two towns, and multiple communities, especially in winter when the ice forms a beautiful link.The Drum Literary MagazineLisa Roger's "Off the Map" is our selection for the January round of our Zip-Code Stories project with WBUR's Radio Boston. Rogers' "Off the Map"--about Wellesley's 02482--plays with the very idea of zip codes, describing the ways in which Morse's Pond transcends categorization, connecting two towns, and multiple communities, especially in winter when the ice forms a beautiful link. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Anne_Colwell--excerpt_from_Holy_Day.mp3 26:33 This excerpt from Anne Colwell's novel Holy Day finds Maxine waking hungover in 1969 to confront her three young children and the challenges that arise from the issues surrounding their birth. Religion, marriage, the ability to be a good mother--these obligations press against Maxine as she remembers the post-McCarthy-era days before her marriage, when even conformity could offer a sense of new beginning. Her decision to convert to Catholicism sets up the complicated balance of independence and loss that both she and her husband now face. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Anne_Colwell--excerpt_from_Holy_Day.mp3 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:08:06 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThis excerpt from Anne Colwell's novel Holy Day finds Maxine waking hungover in 1969 to confront her three young children and the challenges that arise from the issues surrounding their birth. Religion, marriage, the ability to be a good mother--these obligations press against Maxine as she remembers the post-McCarthy-era days before her marriage, when even conformity could offer a sense of new beginning. Her decision to convert to Catholicism sets up the complicated balance of independence and loss that both she and her husband now face.The Drum Literary MagazineThis excerpt from Anne Colwell's novel Holy Day finds Maxine waking hungover in 1969 to confront her three young children and the challenges that arise from the issues surrounding their birth. Religion, marriage, the ability to be a good mother--these obligations press against Maxine as she remembers the post-McCarthy-era days before her marriage, when even conformity could offer a sense of new beginning. Her decision to convert to Catholicism sets up the complicated balance of independence and loss that both she and her husband now face. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-James_Claffey--A_Clip_on_The_Ear.mp3 5:40 James Claffey's "A Clip on the Ear" blends a Catholic litany with the rituals of a boy's Sundays at home in Ireland. It's a home presided over by a violent father who, when not away on the North Sea oil rigs, maintains strict control--over his wife, his children, the household rituals, and the litany itself. The boy seeks refuge in the hiding places of his home and in his fantasies of revenge. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-James_Claffey--A_Clip_on_The_Ear.mp3 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:24:29 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoJames Claffey's "A Clip on the Ear" blends a Catholic litany with the rituals of a boy's Sundays at home in Ireland. It's a home presided over by a violent father who, when not away on the North Sea oil rigs, maintains strict control--over his wife, his children, the household rituals, and the litany itself. The boy seeks refuge in the hiding places of his home and in his fantasies of revenge.The Drum Literary MagazineJames Claffey's "A Clip on the Ear" blends a Catholic litany with the rituals of a boy's Sundays at home in Ireland. It's a home presided over by a violent father who, when not away on the North Sea oil rigs, maintains strict control--over his wife, his children, the household rituals, and the litany itself. The boy seeks refuge in the hiding places of his home and in his fantasies of revenge. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Stories_on_the_Street--James_Joyce-squo-s__The_Dead_.mp3 4:53 James Joyce's "The Dead" takes place on or around the New Year and Epiphany, January 6, and that is when The Drum ventured into Times Square to record Joyce's story for our Stories on the Street Project. Listen as passersby and New Year's Eve revelers take their turn reading Joyce's prose aloud, each one in his or her own unique accent. This Stories on the Street audio of the final paragraphs of "The Dead" was recorded and produced by Sara Fetherolf. follow the recording with the text of "The Dead" from Project Gutenberg https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Stories_on_the_Street--James_Joyce-squo-s__The_Dead_.mp3 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:59:15 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoJames Joyce's "The Dead" takes place on or around the New Year and Epiphany, January 6, and that is when The Drum ventured into Times Square to record Joyce's story for our Stories on the Street Project. Listen as passersby and New Year's Eve revelers take their turn reading Joyce's prose aloud, each one in his or her own unique accent. This Stories on the Street audio of the final paragraphs of "The Dead" was recorded and produced by Sara Fetherolf. follow the recording with the text of "The Dead" from Project GutenbergThe Drum Literary MagazineJames Joyce's "The Dead" takes place on or around the New Year and Epiphany, January 6, and that is when The Drum ventured into Times Square to record Joyce's story for our Stories on the Street Project. Listen as passersby and New Year's Eve revelers take their turn reading Joyce's prose aloud, each one in his or her own unique accent. This Stories on the Street audio of the final paragraphs of "The Dead" was recorded and produced by Sara Fetherolf. follow the recording with the text of "The Dead" from Project Gutenberg https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-E.R._Catalano--Trying_Lesson.mp3 11:10 In E.R. Catalano's "Trying Lesson," a young girl's search for Titian in the hair-color aisle is the starting point for more than a superficial transformation. Looking for a sense of home and belonging, the narrator of this excerpt from Catalano's novel-in-progress Becoming the Girl Detective seeks identity through her admiration of Nancy Drew. Perhaps if she can model herself after the girl detective, the narrator can solve the mysteries surrounding her own family. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-E.R._Catalano--Trying_Lesson.mp3 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:51:02 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn E.R. Catalano's "Trying Lesson," a young girl's search for Titian in the hair-color aisle is the starting point for more than a superficial transformation. Looking for a sense of home and belonging, the narrator of this excerpt from Catalano's novel-in-progress Becoming the Girl Detective seeks identity through her admiration of Nancy Drew. Perhaps if she can model herself after the girl detective, the narrator can solve the mysteries surrounding her own family.The Drum Literary MagazineIn E.R. Catalano's "Trying Lesson," a young girl's search for Titian in the hair-color aisle is the starting point for more than a superficial transformation. Looking for a sense of home and belonging, the narrator of this excerpt from Catalano's novel-in-progress Becoming the Girl Detective seeks identity through her admiration of Nancy Drew. Perhaps if she can model herself after the girl detective, the narrator can solve the mysteries surrounding her own family. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Colette_Sartor--Dress_Shoes.mp3 45:09 Colette Sartor's "Dress Shoes" recounts a relationship tested by one friend's transition from male to female. From Elke's perspective, we feel her longing and her sense of loss as her friend Ralph drifts away from her, forming a new bond. "Dress Shoes" is about sexuality--Elke's and Ralph's--but it is also about control, identity, and about the various ways in which we try to make our marks, literal and figurative, on ourselves and on others. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Colette_Sartor--Dress_Shoes.mp3 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:17:58 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoColette Sartor's "Dress Shoes" recounts a relationship tested by one friend's transition from male to female. From Elke's perspective, we feel her longing and her sense of loss as her friend Ralph drifts away from her, forming a new bond. "Dress Shoes" is about sexuality--Elke's and Ralph's--but it is also about control, identity, and about the various ways in which we try to make our marks, literal and figurative, on ourselves and on others.The Drum Literary MagazineColette Sartor's "Dress Shoes" recounts a relationship tested by one friend's transition from male to female. From Elke's perspective, we feel her longing and her sense of loss as her friend Ralph drifts away from her, forming a new bond. "Dress Shoes" is about sexuality--Elke's and Ralph's--but it is also about control, identity, and about the various ways in which we try to make our marks, literal and figurative, on ourselves and on others. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Leslie_Pietrzyk--Lady_of_the_House.mp3 43:07 Leslie Pietrzyk's novel excerpt Lady of the House brings a crisis into the already unsettled life of sisters Nettie and Lucy in the Chicago of 1900. At the turn of a new century, with their father recently dead and Lucy newly married, both women face decisions about how to respond to the pressures of motherhood and marriage. Their situation sharpens when a maid introduces a crisis of her own into the sisters' household. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Leslie_Pietrzyk--Lady_of_the_House.mp3 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:59:27 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoLeslie Pietrzyk's novel excerpt Lady of the House brings a crisis into the already unsettled life of sisters Nettie and Lucy in the Chicago of 1900. At the turn of a new century, with their father recently dead and Lucy newly married, both women face decisions about how to respond to the pressures of motherhood and marriage. Their situation sharpens when a maid introduces a crisis of her own into the sisters' household.The Drum Literary MagazineLeslie Pietrzyk's novel excerpt Lady of the House brings a crisis into the already unsettled life of sisters Nettie and Lucy in the Chicago of 1900. At the turn of a new century, with their father recently dead and Lucy newly married, both women face decisions about how to respond to the pressures of motherhood and marriage. Their situation sharpens when a maid introduces a crisis of her own into the sisters' household. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag9886-437.mp3 24:25 Jessica Barksdale's "Marco on the Beach" captures Marco trying to make do--with food stamps, with his girlfriend who can't sleep enough, with uncertainty over where to live. As he and Sara negotiate the grocery-store aisles and settle down over a meager meal, a new discovery makes Marco imagine his life, an alternate future spinning out from a single choice. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag9886-437.mp3 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:32:06 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoJessica Barksdale's "Marco on the Beach" captures Marco trying to make do--with food stamps, with his girlfriend who can't sleep enough, with uncertainty over where to live. As he and Sara negotiate the grocery-store aisles and settle down over a meager meal, a new discovery makes Marco imagine his life, an alternate future spinning out from a single choice.The Drum Literary MagazineJessica Barksdale's "Marco on the Beach" captures Marco trying to make do--with food stamps, with his girlfriend who can't sleep enough, with uncertainty over where to live. As he and Sara negotiate the grocery-store aisles and settle down over a meager meal, a new discovery makes Marco imagine his life, an alternate future spinning out from a single choice. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Liz_Moore--The_Start_of_Something.mp3 3:57 Liz Moore's "The Start of Something" is our featured Zip-Code Story for the month of December. Moore's piece about Framingham's 01702 captures that feeling of being pulled into new experiences and new places even as we yearn for what we know. As she contemplates her own relationship with her hometown through adolescence and young adulthood, Moore gives us a vivid sense of the excitement and wistfulness in realizing that there's always the start of something new. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Liz_Moore--The_Start_of_Something.mp3 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:09:44 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoLiz Moore's "The Start of Something" is our featured Zip-Code Story for the month of December. Moore's piece about Framingham's 01702 captures that feeling of being pulled into new experiences and new places even as we yearn for what we know. As she contemplates her own relationship with her hometown through adolescence and young adulthood, Moore gives us a vivid sense of the excitement and wistfulness in realizing that there's always the start of something new.The Drum Literary MagazineLiz Moore's "The Start of Something" is our featured Zip-Code Story for the month of December. Moore's piece about Framingham's 01702 captures that feeling of being pulled into new experiences and new places even as we yearn for what we know. As she contemplates her own relationship with her hometown through adolescence and young adulthood, Moore gives us a vivid sense of the excitement and wistfulness in realizing that there's always the start of something new. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Cheryl_Walsh--Unequal_Temperaments.mp3 22:37 Cheryl Walsh's "Unequal Temperaments" is narrated by a musician and a tuner of harpsichords--instruments whose tuning challenges give the story its title. Telling a story about friction among players in a conservatory, the piece explores our ability to adjust, align, and predict events in our experience, and suggests that despite our certainty that we can foretell things, we will always be surprised and perhaps foiled by the irrational and the unruly. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Cheryl_Walsh--Unequal_Temperaments.mp3 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:05:13 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoCheryl Walsh's "Unequal Temperaments" is narrated by a musician and a tuner of harpsichords--instruments whose tuning challenges give the story its title. Telling a story about friction among players in a conservatory, the piece explores our ability to adjust, align, and predict events in our experience, and suggests that despite our certainty that we can foretell things, we will always be surprised and perhaps foiled by the irrational and the unruly.The Drum Literary MagazineCheryl Walsh's "Unequal Temperaments" is narrated by a musician and a tuner of harpsichords--instruments whose tuning challenges give the story its title. Telling a story about friction among players in a conservatory, the piece explores our ability to adjust, align, and predict events in our experience, and suggests that despite our certainty that we can foretell things, we will always be surprised and perhaps foiled by the irrational and the unruly. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Hadley_Moore--When_My_Father_Was_in_Prison.mp3 19:46 Hadley Moore's "When My Father Was In Prison" describes the power of language in the life of a nine-year-old boy as he tries to sort out what it means to be a boy, a man, a father. A father in prison, a pet bird that has died, an older brother discovering his sexuality--Moore's narrator studies it all, coming to understand some part of how he fits in to his world. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Hadley_Moore--When_My_Father_Was_in_Prison.mp3 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:03:24 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoHadley Moore's "When My Father Was In Prison" describes the power of language in the life of a nine-year-old boy as he tries to sort out what it means to be a boy, a man, a father. A father in prison, a pet bird that has died, an older brother discovering his sexuality--Moore's narrator studies it all, coming to understand some part of how he fits in to his world.The Drum Literary MagazineHadley Moore's "When My Father Was In Prison" describes the power of language in the life of a nine-year-old boy as he tries to sort out what it means to be a boy, a man, a father. A father in prison, a pet bird that has died, an older brother discovering his sexuality--Moore's narrator studies it all, coming to understand some part of how he fits in to his world. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Kimberly_Elkins--Laura_Bridgman.mp3 3:33 Kimberly Elkins' "Laura Bridgman" offers a fascinating fictionalized account of an actual historical moment. As she meets the young girl who is being groomed to take her place as a celebrity, Bridgman muses on the vagaries of fame and reputation. Elkins' piece raises interesting questions about the rivalry among the senses (or their loss), and the strange power that can be wielded by disability. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Kimberly_Elkins--Laura_Bridgman.mp3 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:58:37 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoKimberly Elkins' "Laura Bridgman" offers a fascinating fictionalized account of an actual historical moment. As she meets the young girl who is being groomed to take her place as a celebrity, Bridgman muses on the vagaries of fame and reputation. Elkins' piece raises interesting questions about the rivalry among the senses (or their loss), and the strange power that can be wielded by disability.The Drum Literary MagazineKimberly Elkins' "Laura Bridgman" offers a fascinating fictionalized account of an actual historical moment. As she meets the young girl who is being groomed to take her place as a celebrity, Bridgman muses on the vagaries of fame and reputation. Elkins' piece raises interesting questions about the rivalry among the senses (or their loss), and the strange power that can be wielded by disability. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Lauren_Norton_Carson--The_Ironing.mp3 3:30 Lauren Carson's "The Ironing" takes a domestic scene as the setting for a domestic undoing. Carson paints a detailed portrait of a woman's experience as a pair of pants becomes a wry battleground. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Lauren_Norton_Carson--The_Ironing.mp3 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:42:58 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoLauren Carson's "The Ironing" takes a domestic scene as the setting for a domestic undoing. Carson paints a detailed portrait of a woman's experience as a pair of pants becomes a wry battleground.The Drum Literary MagazineLauren Carson's "The Ironing" takes a domestic scene as the setting for a domestic undoing. Carson paints a detailed portrait of a woman's experience as a pair of pants becomes a wry battleground. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Lisa_Korzeniowski--While_You_Were_Gone.mp3 3:00 In Lisa Korzeniowski's "While You Were Gone", a mother's night out leaves her children to do whatever they want, thrilled to be free from a parent whose weaknesses and failures are all too apparent.  But their experience of exhilaration quickly slides into yearning for their mother's love and for the return of her questionable authority. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Lisa_Korzeniowski--While_You_Were_Gone.mp3 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:11:38 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Lisa Korzeniowski's "While You Were Gone", a mother's night out leaves her children to do whatever they want, thrilled to be free from a parent whose weaknesses and failures are all too apparent.  But their experience of exhilaration quickly slides into yearning for their mother's love and for the return of her questionable authority.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Lisa Korzeniowski's "While You Were Gone", a mother's night out leaves her children to do whatever they want, thrilled to be free from a parent whose weaknesses and failures are all too apparent.  But their experience of exhilaration quickly slides into yearning for their mother's love and for the return of her questionable authority. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BBF_Time_Is._._._Panel.mp3 1:00:07 Courtesy of the Boston Book Festival, the Time Is. . .  panel with Jennifer Egan, Lawrence Douglas, and Peter Mountford, moderated by Henriette Lazaridis Power. The discussion took place in the Sanctuary of Old South Church on Saturday, October 15th, 2011. The panelists discussed issues like the structural choices they made in handling narrative time in their novels, the relationship between memory and identity in their work, the way their characters manipulate history and time, and how as novelists they represent time itself. Listen through to the end to hear the discussion include physics, the Big Bang, and narrative craft. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BBF_Time_Is._._._Panel.mp3 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:21:04 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoCourtesy of the Boston Book Festival, the Time Is. . .  panel with Jennifer Egan, Lawrence Douglas, and Peter Mountford, moderated by Henriette Lazaridis Power. The discussion took place in the Sanctuary of Old South Church on Saturday, October 15th, 2011. The panelists discussed issues like the structural choices they made in handling narrative time in their novels, the relationship between memory and identity in their work, the way their characters manipulate history and time, and how as novelists they represent time itself. Listen through to the end to hear the discussion include physics, the Big Bang, and narrative craft.The Drum Literary MagazineCourtesy of the Boston Book Festival, the Time Is. . .  panel with Jennifer Egan, Lawrence Douglas, and Peter Mountford, moderated by Henriette Lazaridis Power. The discussion took place in the Sanctuary of Old South Church on Saturday, October 15th, 2011. The panelists discussed issues like the structural choices they made in handling narrative time in their novels, the relationship between memory and identity in their work, the way their characters manipulate history and time, and how as novelists they represent time itself. Listen through to the end to hear the discussion include physics, the Big Bang, and narrative craft. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Leah_Hager_Cohen--The_Grief_of_Others_-oparen-prologue-cparen-.mp3 8:40 The New York Times Book Review called Leah Hager Cohen "one of our foremost chroniclers of the mundane complexities, nuanced tragedies and unexpected tendernesses of human connection." Her reading of the prologue from The Grief of Others clearly demonstrates why she deserves the label. In this brief opening scene, Cohen describes with microscopic and eloquent detail the features of a newborn and the love his mother feels for him. Cohen raises moving questions about the fragility of life and about the limits of our ability to name the events and emotions of our experience. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Leah_Hager_Cohen--The_Grief_of_Others_-oparen-prologue-cparen-.mp3 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:36:52 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe New York Times Book Review called Leah Hager Cohen "one of our foremost chroniclers of the mundane complexities, nuanced tragedies and unexpected tendernesses of human connection." Her reading of the prologue from The Grief of Others clearly demonstrates why she deserves the label. In this brief opening scene, Cohen describes with microscopic and eloquent detail the features of a newborn and the love his mother feels for him. Cohen raises moving questions about the fragility of life and about the limits of our ability to name the events and emotions of our experience.The Drum Literary MagazineThe New York Times Book Review called Leah Hager Cohen "one of our foremost chroniclers of the mundane complexities, nuanced tragedies and unexpected tendernesses of human connection." Her reading of the prologue from The Grief of Others clearly demonstrates why she deserves the label. In this brief opening scene, Cohen describes with microscopic and eloquent detail the features of a newborn and the love his mother feels for him. Cohen raises moving questions about the fragility of life and about the limits of our ability to name the events and emotions of our experience. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag0684-409.mp3 27:41 Michael Kula's novel The Good Doctor opens at the 1917 Wisconsin State Fair where a young veterinarian learns that tragedy has come into his life. With precise and powerful detail, Kula evokes the physicality of the world of David Roberts--both the strength of the body and its vulnerability that becomes all too apparent as the novel begins. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag0684-409.mp3 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:04:15 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoMichael Kula's novel The Good Doctor opens at the 1917 Wisconsin State Fair where a young veterinarian learns that tragedy has come into his life. With precise and powerful detail, Kula evokes the physicality of the world of David Roberts--both the strength of the body and its vulnerability that becomes all too apparent as the novel begins.The Drum Literary MagazineMichael Kula's novel The Good Doctor opens at the 1917 Wisconsin State Fair where a young veterinarian learns that tragedy has come into his life. With precise and powerful detail, Kula evokes the physicality of the world of David Roberts--both the strength of the body and its vulnerability that becomes all too apparent as the novel begins. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Steve_Macone--Who-squo-s_Walking_Who.mp3 16:33 Steve Macone's "Who's Walking Who" is a wry and hilarious love letter to his local Market Basket grocery store, with its chaos, its crowds, and the various mysteries of its organizing principles. He spots the foibles of human behavior there--his own and those of others--and identifies the strange beauty of this place "where everything meets and touches". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Steve_Macone--Who-squo-s_Walking_Who.mp3 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:36:02 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoSteve Macone's "Who's Walking Who" is a wry and hilarious love letter to his local Market Basket grocery store, with its chaos, its crowds, and the various mysteries of its organizing principles. He spots the foibles of human behavior there--his own and those of others--and identifies the strange beauty of this place "where everything meets and touches".The Drum Literary MagazineSteve Macone's "Who's Walking Who" is a wry and hilarious love letter to his local Market Basket grocery store, with its chaos, its crowds, and the various mysteries of its organizing principles. He spots the foibles of human behavior there--his own and those of others--and identifies the strange beauty of this place "where everything meets and touches". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Emma_Forrest--excerpts_from_Your_Voice_in_My_Head.mp3 5:58 Emma Forrest's memoir Your Voice in My Head chronicles her descent into darkness and her relationship with the therapist who helped her find her way back out. In the Prologue and the excerpt of Chapter Four that she reads here for The Drum, Forrest writes movingly of being a teenaged girl with a dangerous fixation on Millais' painting of Ophelia. She writes with restraint of powerful emotions, and describes her younger self's disturbing desire for annihilation with intensity and insight. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Emma_Forrest--excerpts_from_Your_Voice_in_My_Head.mp3 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:32:43 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoEmma Forrest's memoir Your Voice in My Head chronicles her descent into darkness and her relationship with the therapist who helped her find her way back out. In the Prologue and the excerpt of Chapter Four that she reads here for The Drum, Forrest writes movingly of being a teenaged girl with a dangerous fixation on Millais' painting of Ophelia. She writes with restraint of powerful emotions, and describes her younger self's disturbing desire for annihilation with intensity and insight.The Drum Literary MagazineEmma Forrest's memoir Your Voice in My Head chronicles her descent into darkness and her relationship with the therapist who helped her find her way back out. In the Prologue and the excerpt of Chapter Four that she reads here for The Drum, Forrest writes movingly of being a teenaged girl with a dangerous fixation on Millais' painting of Ophelia. She writes with restraint of powerful emotions, and describes her younger self's disturbing desire for annihilation with intensity and insight. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Vanessa_Tardiff--Brookline_Night_-oparen-ZCS-cparen-.mp3 3:36 Vanessa Tardiff's "Brookline Night" was one of our featured stories for the October round of Zip-Code Stories. "Brookline Night" describes just that. A story of a mother and a daughter, Vanessa's piece explores the connection between place and person, and the shifting between the familiar and the strange. To hear more Zip-Code Stories submitted by listeners to WBUR and fans of The Drum, listen to our playlist on Broadcastr, an innovative platform for sharing geo-tagged audio. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Vanessa_Tardiff--Brookline_Night_-oparen-ZCS-cparen-.mp3 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:29:22 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoVanessa Tardiff's "Brookline Night" was one of our featured stories for the October round of Zip-Code Stories. "Brookline Night" describes just that. A story of a mother and a daughter, Vanessa's piece explores the connection between place and person, and the shifting between the familiar and the strange. To hear more Zip-Code Stories submitted by listeners to WBUR and fans of The Drum, listen to our playlist on Broadcastr, an innovative platform for sharing geo-tagged audio.The Drum Literary MagazineVanessa Tardiff's "Brookline Night" was one of our featured stories for the October round of Zip-Code Stories. "Brookline Night" describes just that. A story of a mother and a daughter, Vanessa's piece explores the connection between place and person, and the shifting between the familiar and the strange. To hear more Zip-Code Stories submitted by listeners to WBUR and fans of The Drum, listen to our playlist on Broadcastr, an innovative platform for sharing geo-tagged audio. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Daniel_Gewertz--Revere_1972_-oparen-ZCS-cparen-.mp3 3:59 Daniel Gewertz' "Revere, 1972" is one of our featured stories for the October round of Zip-Code Stories. "Revere, 1972" involves a carnival game, a revelation, and a stranger's kindness. To hear an interview with Daniel in which he talks about the motivation behind the story, click here and listen to the Radio Boston program for October 10, 2011. To hear the other Zip-Code Stories submitted by listeners to WBUR and fans of The Drum, visit The Drum's playlist on Broadcastr. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Daniel_Gewertz--Revere_1972_-oparen-ZCS-cparen-.mp3 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:19:55 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoDaniel Gewertz' "Revere, 1972" is one of our featured stories for the October round of Zip-Code Stories. "Revere, 1972" involves a carnival game, a revelation, and a stranger's kindness. To hear an interview with Daniel in which he talks about the motivation behind the story, click here and listen to the Radio Boston program for October 10, 2011. To hear the other Zip-Code Stories submitted by listeners to WBUR and fans of The Drum, visit The Drum's playlist on Broadcastr.The Drum Literary MagazineDaniel Gewertz' "Revere, 1972" is one of our featured stories for the October round of Zip-Code Stories. "Revere, 1972" involves a carnival game, a revelation, and a stranger's kindness. To hear an interview with Daniel in which he talks about the motivation behind the story, click here and listen to the Radio Boston program for October 10, 2011. To hear the other Zip-Code Stories submitted by listeners to WBUR and fans of The Drum, visit The Drum's playlist on Broadcastr. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Barry_Jay_Kaplan--Marco_Sells_His_Book.mp3 11:36 Barry Jay Kaplan takes on the world of publishing in his short story "Marco Sells His Book." A group of friends is shaken by news that an underserving member of their Thursday night salon has reached what they view as premature success. The launch party for Marco's novel is shot through with jealousy and social strategizing, but comes to an encouraging conclusion. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Barry_Jay_Kaplan--Marco_Sells_His_Book.mp3 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:35:43 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoBarry Jay Kaplan takes on the world of publishing in his short story "Marco Sells His Book." A group of friends is shaken by news that an underserving member of their Thursday night salon has reached what they view as premature success. The launch party for Marco's novel is shot through with jealousy and social strategizing, but comes to an encouraging conclusion.The Drum Literary MagazineBarry Jay Kaplan takes on the world of publishing in his short story "Marco Sells His Book." A group of friends is shaken by news that an underserving member of their Thursday night salon has reached what they view as premature success. The launch party for Marco's novel is shot through with jealousy and social strategizing, but comes to an encouraging conclusion. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Erin_Kelly--Shhh.mp3 5:57 The teenaged narrator of Erin Kelly's "Shhh" has decided to stop talking. It's an eloquent protest, conveying independence and resistance to her mother, affection for her younger brother, and a nuanced sensitivity to the world around her. While her brother builds tiny walls to protect the backyard ants, the narrator builds a connection that requires almost no words. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Erin_Kelly--Shhh.mp3 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:33:57 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe teenaged narrator of Erin Kelly's "Shhh" has decided to stop talking. It's an eloquent protest, conveying independence and resistance to her mother, affection for her younger brother, and a nuanced sensitivity to the world around her. While her brother builds tiny walls to protect the backyard ants, the narrator builds a connection that requires almost no words.The Drum Literary MagazineThe teenaged narrator of Erin Kelly's "Shhh" has decided to stop talking. It's an eloquent protest, conveying independence and resistance to her mother, affection for her younger brother, and a nuanced sensitivity to the world around her. While her brother builds tiny walls to protect the backyard ants, the narrator builds a connection that requires almost no words. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Caralyn_Davis--Wallow.mp3 12:34 Caralyn Davis' short story "Wallow" is the Winner of The 2011 Drum/Side B Magazine Dual Publication Award. "Wallow" depicts an evening in the life of a sin-eater, a woman with the ability to consume and absorb the sins of the dead. Following the traditions of the ancient Egyptians, Davis' contemporary sin-eater dresses in style, makes keen social observations about her customers and clients, and contemplates the balance of good and evil. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Caralyn_Davis--Wallow.mp3 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:46:02 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoCaralyn Davis' short story "Wallow" is the Winner of The 2011 Drum/Side B Magazine Dual Publication Award. "Wallow" depicts an evening in the life of a sin-eater, a woman with the ability to consume and absorb the sins of the dead. Following the traditions of the ancient Egyptians, Davis' contemporary sin-eater dresses in style, makes keen social observations about her customers and clients, and contemplates the balance of good and evil.The Drum Literary MagazineCaralyn Davis' short story "Wallow" is the Winner of The 2011 Drum/Side B Magazine Dual Publication Award. "Wallow" depicts an evening in the life of a sin-eater, a woman with the ability to consume and absorb the sins of the dead. Following the traditions of the ancient Egyptians, Davis' contemporary sin-eater dresses in style, makes keen social observations about her customers and clients, and contemplates the balance of good and evil. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Randy_Ross--One_Day_in_Thailand.mp3 2:39 Randy Ross' "One Day in Thailand" is the Finalist in the 2011 Drum/Side B Dual Publication Award. Brief, clever, and with a final twist, "One Day in Thailand" presents a comic observation on the experience of the ex-patriate in Asia. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Randy_Ross--One_Day_in_Thailand.mp3 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:39:49 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoRandy Ross' "One Day in Thailand" is the Finalist in the 2011 Drum/Side B Dual Publication Award. Brief, clever, and with a final twist, "One Day in Thailand" presents a comic observation on the experience of the ex-patriate in Asia.The Drum Literary MagazineRandy Ross' "One Day in Thailand" is the Finalist in the 2011 Drum/Side B Dual Publication Award. Brief, clever, and with a final twist, "One Day in Thailand" presents a comic observation on the experience of the ex-patriate in Asia. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-James_McGirk--The_Tramp_Steamer.mp3 34:00 James McGirk's short story "The Tramp Steamer" presents a side of Richard M. Nixon we've never seen before. McGirk imagines the young lawyer and his new bride traveling on a tramp steamer of the United Fruit Company to celebrate their first anniversary. Seasick, angry, jealous, Nixon reveals his inelegance to his wife who yearns for more glamour and glitz. McGirk takes the facts of the Nixons' actual 1941 trip and spins out an incisive and compelling story of bitterness and dreams. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-James_McGirk--The_Tramp_Steamer.mp3 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:12:43 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJames McGirk's short story "The Tramp Steamer" presents a side of Richard M. Nixon we've never seen before. McGirk imagines the young lawyer and his new bride traveling on a tramp steamer of the United Fruit Company to celebrate their first anniversary. Seasick, angry, jealous, Nixon reveals his inelegance to his wife who yearns for more glamour and glitz. McGirk takes the facts of the Nixons' actual 1941 trip and spins out an incisive and compelling story of bitterness and dreams.The Drum Literary MagazineJames McGirk's short story "The Tramp Steamer" presents a side of Richard M. Nixon we've never seen before. McGirk imagines the young lawyer and his new bride traveling on a tramp steamer of the United Fruit Company to celebrate their first anniversary. Seasick, angry, jealous, Nixon reveals his inelegance to his wife who yearns for more glamour and glitz. McGirk takes the facts of the Nixons' actual 1941 trip and spins out an incisive and compelling story of bitterness and dreams. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Hau_Nguyen--Immigrants.mp3 3:47 Hau Nguyen's story "Immigrants" is a young man's advice to himself on how to navigate a new life in a new world. Part reminder, part exhortation, part warning, "Immigrants" conveys the newcomer's desires for assimilation and independence, and his embrace of the new while holding onto the old. "Immigrants" appears in The Drum as part of our selection from Grub Street's Young Adult Writers' Program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Hau_Nguyen--Immigrants.mp3 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:24:59 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoHau Nguyen's story "Immigrants" is a young man's advice to himself on how to navigate a new life in a new world. Part reminder, part exhortation, part warning, "Immigrants" conveys the newcomer's desires for assimilation and independence, and his embrace of the new while holding onto the old. "Immigrants" appears in The Drum as part of our selection from Grub Street's Young Adult Writers' Program.The Drum Literary MagazineHau Nguyen's story "Immigrants" is a young man's advice to himself on how to navigate a new life in a new world. Part reminder, part exhortation, part warning, "Immigrants" conveys the newcomer's desires for assimilation and independence, and his embrace of the new while holding onto the old. "Immigrants" appears in The Drum as part of our selection from Grub Street's Young Adult Writers' Program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Molly_Zimetbaum--Balloons.mp3 5:51 In Molly Zimetbaum's "Balloons," an older sister tells the poignant story of the birthday celebration for her little sister that seemingly goes awry. This family of three--two daughters and a weary but caring father--finds a sweet balm for disappointment. "Balloons" appears in The Drum as part of our selection from Grub Street's Young Adult Writers' Program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Molly_Zimetbaum--Balloons.mp3 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:40:14 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Molly Zimetbaum's "Balloons," an older sister tells the poignant story of the birthday celebration for her little sister that seemingly goes awry. This family of three--two daughters and a weary but caring father--finds a sweet balm for disappointment. "Balloons" appears in The Drum as part of our selection from Grub Street's Young Adult Writers' Program.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Molly Zimetbaum's "Balloons," an older sister tells the poignant story of the birthday celebration for her little sister that seemingly goes awry. This family of three--two daughters and a weary but caring father--finds a sweet balm for disappointment. "Balloons" appears in The Drum as part of our selection from Grub Street's Young Adult Writers' Program. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jennifer_Haigh--Bent.mp3 26:08 Jennifer Haigh's short story "Bent" takes place in Cape Cod's Provincetown (02657), where Kip's family has vacationed every summer he can remember, renting the same house by the shore. He's always brought along his neighborhood friend Fanelli, but this year, he's added his college buddy Jean-Luc, a Frenchman whose exoticism and way with girls Kip envies. "Bent" portrays the subtle dance of allegiance and rivalry between these young men, as it studies Kip's first true experience of regret. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jennifer_Haigh--Bent.mp3 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:04:13 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJennifer Haigh's short story "Bent" takes place in Cape Cod's Provincetown (02657), where Kip's family has vacationed every summer he can remember, renting the same house by the shore. He's always brought along his neighborhood friend Fanelli, but this year, he's added his college buddy Jean-Luc, a Frenchman whose exoticism and way with girls Kip envies. "Bent" portrays the subtle dance of allegiance and rivalry between these young men, as it studies Kip's first true experience of regret.The Drum Literary MagazineJennifer Haigh's short story "Bent" takes place in Cape Cod's Provincetown (02657), where Kip's family has vacationed every summer he can remember, renting the same house by the shore. He's always brought along his neighborhood friend Fanelli, but this year, he's added his college buddy Jean-Luc, a Frenchman whose exoticism and way with girls Kip envies. "Bent" portrays the subtle dance of allegiance and rivalry between these young men, as it studies Kip's first true experience of regret. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Roland_Merullo--excerpts_from_In_Revere_In_Those_Days.mp3 22:29 The opening to Roland Merullo's 2003 novel In Revere, In Those Days sets us squarely down in Revere (02151), and in the mind of a narrator for whom the city of his childhood is more than geographical location. For Anthony Benedetto, Revere is a place outside time, a world full of blue-collar families dreaming for something bigger. He looks back on the "ordinary heroism of the household, the factory, and the street" and reflects on those who are able to transcend the bitterness and hardship of their lives. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Roland_Merullo--excerpts_from_In_Revere_In_Those_Days.mp3 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:29:50 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe opening to Roland Merullo's 2003 novel In Revere, In Those Days sets us squarely down in Revere (02151), and in the mind of a narrator for whom the city of his childhood is more than geographical location. For Anthony Benedetto, Revere is a place outside time, a world full of blue-collar families dreaming for something bigger. He looks back on the "ordinary heroism of the household, the factory, and the street" and reflects on those who are able to transcend the bitterness and hardship of their lives.The Drum Literary MagazineThe opening to Roland Merullo's 2003 novel In Revere, In Those Days sets us squarely down in Revere (02151), and in the mind of a narrator for whom the city of his childhood is more than geographical location. For Anthony Benedetto, Revere is a place outside time, a world full of blue-collar families dreaming for something bigger. He looks back on the "ordinary heroism of the household, the factory, and the street" and reflects on those who are able to transcend the bitterness and hardship of their lives. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag8086-365.mp3 20:41 Fifteen years old and educated beyond his years, beset by the chaos of his family and a possibly pregnant girlfriend, Jonathan Levy Wainscoting IV narrates Askold Melnyczuk's novel-in-progress Excerpts from SMEDLEY's Secret Guide to World Literature. Woven through with literary, philosophical, and cultural references, Jonathan's narrative muses on his parents' and his friends' complicated lives on the eve of his forced summer's-long departure from his Cambridge home. Excerpts from SMEDLEY's Secret Guide to World Literature first appeared in the June 2011 issue of The Drum, and represents 02139 for our Zip-Code Stories project in collaboration with WBUR. Send us your story about 02139! https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag8086-365.mp3 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:45:34 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoFifteen years old and educated beyond his years, beset by the chaos of his family and a possibly pregnant girlfriend, Jonathan Levy Wainscoting IV narrates Askold Melnyczuk's novel-in-progress Excerpts from SMEDLEY's Secret Guide to World Literature. Woven through with literary, philosophical, and cultural references, Jonathan's narrative muses on his parents' and his friends' complicated lives on the eve of his forced summer's-long departure from his Cambridge home. Excerpts from SMEDLEY's Secret Guide to World Literature first appeared in the June 2011 issue of The Drum, and represents 02139 for our Zip-Code Stories project in collaboration with WBUR. Send us your story about 02139!The Drum Literary MagazineFifteen years old and educated beyond his years, beset by the chaos of his family and a possibly pregnant girlfriend, Jonathan Levy Wainscoting IV narrates Askold Melnyczuk's novel-in-progress Excerpts from SMEDLEY's Secret Guide to World Literature. Woven through with literary, philosophical, and cultural references, Jonathan's narrative muses on his parents' and his friends' complicated lives on the eve of his forced summer's-long departure from his Cambridge home. Excerpts from SMEDLEY's Secret Guide to World Literature first appeared in the June 2011 issue of The Drum, and represents 02139 for our Zip-Code Stories project in collaboration with WBUR. Send us your story about 02139! https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Daphne_Kalotay--Sunshine_Cleaners.mp3 32:28 Daphne Kalotay's "Sunshine Cleaners" takes place in a laundromat in Brookline (02446), where cultures tumble together in misunderstanding and miscommunication. Sergei ponders the mysteries of America in everything from simple signs to interactions between men and women, while the Tall Girl struggles to make herself understood as her transactions in coins and language repeatedly fail. All the same, the tiny world of the laundromat offers a sweet and surprising payoff. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Daphne_Kalotay--Sunshine_Cleaners.mp3 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:04:20 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoDaphne Kalotay's "Sunshine Cleaners" takes place in a laundromat in Brookline (02446), where cultures tumble together in misunderstanding and miscommunication. Sergei ponders the mysteries of America in everything from simple signs to interactions between men and women, while the Tall Girl struggles to make herself understood as her transactions in coins and language repeatedly fail. All the same, the tiny world of the laundromat offers a sweet and surprising payoff.The Drum Literary MagazineDaphne Kalotay's "Sunshine Cleaners" takes place in a laundromat in Brookline (02446), where cultures tumble together in misunderstanding and miscommunication. Sergei ponders the mysteries of America in everything from simple signs to interactions between men and women, while the Tall Girl struggles to make herself understood as her transactions in coins and language repeatedly fail. All the same, the tiny world of the laundromat offers a sweet and surprising payoff. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Julie_Wheelwright--excerpts_from_Esther__The_Remarkable_True_Story_of_Esther_Wheelwright.mp3 33:06 Julie Wheelwright's Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright, Puritan Child, Native Daughter and Mother Superior provides a chilling and moving account of Wheelwright's ancestor who was abducted by Native American warriors from her Maine home in the 1600s. In the excerpts she reads aloud for The Drum, Wheelwright tells us about her own search for her ancestor, and recounts Esther's abduction, set in the context of the history and politics of the time. Not for the faint of heart, these excerpts nonetheless offer a vivid look at a turbulent period in New England history seen through the experience of one family. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Julie_Wheelwright--excerpts_from_Esther__The_Remarkable_True_Story_of_Esther_Wheelwright.mp3 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:18:46 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJulie Wheelwright's Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright, Puritan Child, Native Daughter and Mother Superior provides a chilling and moving account of Wheelwright's ancestor who was abducted by Native American warriors from her Maine home in the 1600s. In the excerpts she reads aloud for The Drum, Wheelwright tells us about her own search for her ancestor, and recounts Esther's abduction, set in the context of the history and politics of the time. Not for the faint of heart, these excerpts nonetheless offer a vivid look at a turbulent period in New England history seen through the experience of one family.The Drum Literary MagazineJulie Wheelwright's Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright, Puritan Child, Native Daughter and Mother Superior provides a chilling and moving account of Wheelwright's ancestor who was abducted by Native American warriors from her Maine home in the 1600s. In the excerpts she reads aloud for The Drum, Wheelwright tells us about her own search for her ancestor, and recounts Esther's abduction, set in the context of the history and politics of the time. Not for the faint of heart, these excerpts nonetheless offer a vivid look at a turbulent period in New England history seen through the experience of one family. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Carla_Panciera--All_of_A_Sudden.mp3 19:43 Carla Panciera's "All of A Sudden" paints an insightful portrait of a unusual young girl in a small New England town. Albina is odd enough to be exotic, strange enough to be awkward, and a source of mingled concern and attraction for the the narrator who befriends her during their childhood and adolescence. Watching Albina, trying at times to correct her and perhaps save her, the narrator reflects on her own changing sense of self. "All of A Sudden" originally appeared in print in the New England Review. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Carla_Panciera--All_of_A_Sudden.mp3 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:26:13 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoCarla Panciera's "All of A Sudden" paints an insightful portrait of a unusual young girl in a small New England town. Albina is odd enough to be exotic, strange enough to be awkward, and a source of mingled concern and attraction for the the narrator who befriends her during their childhood and adolescence. Watching Albina, trying at times to correct her and perhaps save her, the narrator reflects on her own changing sense of self. "All of A Sudden" originally appeared in print in the New England Review.The Drum Literary MagazineCarla Panciera's "All of A Sudden" paints an insightful portrait of a unusual young girl in a small New England town. Albina is odd enough to be exotic, strange enough to be awkward, and a source of mingled concern and attraction for the the narrator who befriends her during their childhood and adolescence. Watching Albina, trying at times to correct her and perhaps save her, the narrator reflects on her own changing sense of self. "All of A Sudden" originally appeared in print in the New England Review. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Alexandra_Johnson--excerpts_from_The_Hidden_Writer.mp3 12:41 Alex Johnson's The Hidden Writer (Doubleday 1997) explores the writer's journey from diary to published writings, and the negotiations between private and public work. In her chapter "The Married Muse," Johnson looks at the relationship between Leo and Sonya Tolstoy--as husband and wife, idol and fan, writer and scribe, and muse to muse. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Alexandra_Johnson--excerpts_from_The_Hidden_Writer.mp3 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:32:59 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAlex Johnson's The Hidden Writer (Doubleday 1997) explores the writer's journey from diary to published writings, and the negotiations between private and public work. In her chapter "The Married Muse," Johnson looks at the relationship between Leo and Sonya Tolstoy--as husband and wife, idol and fan, writer and scribe, and muse to muse.The Drum Literary MagazineAlex Johnson's The Hidden Writer (Doubleday 1997) explores the writer's journey from diary to published writings, and the negotiations between private and public work. In her chapter "The Married Muse," Johnson looks at the relationship between Leo and Sonya Tolstoy--as husband and wife, idol and fan, writer and scribe, and muse to muse. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Catherine_Elcik--Why_We-squo-re_Sleeping_With_The_Fishes.mp3 3:01 In Catherine Elcik's "Why We're Swimming With The Fishes," there are three people in one marriage: the husband, the wife, and Marlon Brando's Godfather. Over a North End dinner, the wife wants romance while the husband wants intrigue, simply the latest trouble in a failing marriage. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Catherine_Elcik--Why_We-squo-re_Sleeping_With_The_Fishes.mp3 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:09:51 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Catherine Elcik's "Why We're Swimming With The Fishes," there are three people in one marriage: the husband, the wife, and Marlon Brando's Godfather. Over a North End dinner, the wife wants romance while the husband wants intrigue, simply the latest trouble in a failing marriage.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Catherine Elcik's "Why We're Swimming With The Fishes," there are three people in one marriage: the husband, the wife, and Marlon Brando's Godfather. Over a North End dinner, the wife wants romance while the husband wants intrigue, simply the latest trouble in a failing marriage. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Dawn_Dorland_Perry--Do_Us_Part.mp3 3:36 In Dawn Dorland Perry's "Do Us Part," a simple question posed to an old friend about his wedding reveals the complicated layers of a relationship, and the longing. ambivalence, and regret for what might have been. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Dawn_Dorland_Perry--Do_Us_Part.mp3 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:02:45 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Dawn Dorland Perry's "Do Us Part," a simple question posed to an old friend about his wedding reveals the complicated layers of a relationship, and the longing. ambivalence, and regret for what might have been.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Dawn Dorland Perry's "Do Us Part," a simple question posed to an old friend about his wedding reveals the complicated layers of a relationship, and the longing. ambivalence, and regret for what might have been. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Michelle_Seaton--Low_Tide.mp3 3:56 Michelle Seaton's "Low Tide" takes a tide pool as the starting point for its study of independence and growth. A child's discovery becomes the source for a mother's discovery too, as parent and child explore the water's edge. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Michelle_Seaton--Low_Tide.mp3 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:10:16 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoMichelle Seaton's "Low Tide" takes a tide pool as the starting point for its study of independence and growth. A child's discovery becomes the source for a mother's discovery too, as parent and child explore the water's edge.The Drum Literary MagazineMichelle Seaton's "Low Tide" takes a tide pool as the starting point for its study of independence and growth. A child's discovery becomes the source for a mother's discovery too, as parent and child explore the water's edge. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Nadine_Lynne_Kenney--How_To_Meet_Your_Future_Husband.mp3 7:10 Nadine Lynn Kenney's "How To Meet Your Future Husband (and Almost Scare Him Away)" presents a nightmare mother on a Florida beach vacation. An oversexed parent, her parents' troubled marriage, her own attraction to a young vacationer, and an excess of alcohol are all ingredients in the narrator's bad trip. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Nadine_Lynne_Kenney--How_To_Meet_Your_Future_Husband.mp3 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:00:53 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoNadine Lynn Kenney's "How To Meet Your Future Husband (and Almost Scare Him Away)" presents a nightmare mother on a Florida beach vacation. An oversexed parent, her parents' troubled marriage, her own attraction to a young vacationer, and an excess of alcohol are all ingredients in the narrator's bad trip.The Drum Literary MagazineNadine Lynn Kenney's "How To Meet Your Future Husband (and Almost Scare Him Away)" presents a nightmare mother on a Florida beach vacation. An oversexed parent, her parents' troubled marriage, her own attraction to a young vacationer, and an excess of alcohol are all ingredients in the narrator's bad trip. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Laura_Packer--Running_Away_With_Greta.mp3 2:58 Laura Packer's "Running Away With Greta" focuses in on one night in the life of a little girl experiencing the temptation of escape and the pull of home. In miniature, this flash-fiction piece examines the complicated relationship between danger and comfort, risk and safety. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Laura_Packer--Running_Away_With_Greta.mp3 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:34:45 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoLaura Packer's "Running Away With Greta" focuses in on one night in the life of a little girl experiencing the temptation of escape and the pull of home. In miniature, this flash-fiction piece examines the complicated relationship between danger and comfort, risk and safety.The Drum Literary MagazineLaura Packer's "Running Away With Greta" focuses in on one night in the life of a little girl experiencing the temptation of escape and the pull of home. In miniature, this flash-fiction piece examines the complicated relationship between danger and comfort, risk and safety. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Amy_Yelin--Torn.mp3 30:29 Amy Yelin's essay "Torn" takes us through a daughter's experience guiding her father through the rituals following her mother's death. Then things get complicated, as Yelin deals with the discovery of her father's secretive relationship with another woman. In exploring that relationship, and the new family dynamic that emerges after its often humorous revelation, Yelin sheds light on the impulses that lead us to reject or welcome one another. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Amy_Yelin--Torn.mp3 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:44:30 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAmy Yelin's essay "Torn" takes us through a daughter's experience guiding her father through the rituals following her mother's death. Then things get complicated, as Yelin deals with the discovery of her father's secretive relationship with another woman. In exploring that relationship, and the new family dynamic that emerges after its often humorous revelation, Yelin sheds light on the impulses that lead us to reject or welcome one another.The Drum Literary MagazineAmy Yelin's essay "Torn" takes us through a daughter's experience guiding her father through the rituals following her mother's death. Then things get complicated, as Yelin deals with the discovery of her father's secretive relationship with another woman. In exploring that relationship, and the new family dynamic that emerges after its often humorous revelation, Yelin sheds light on the impulses that lead us to reject or welcome one another. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Askold_Melnyczuk--excerpt_from_Excerpts_from_Smedley-squo-s_Secret_Guide_to_World_Literature.mp3 20:41 Fifteen years old and educated beyond his years, beset by the chaos of his family and a possibly pregnant girlfriend, Jonathan Levy Wainscoting IV narrates Askold Melnyczuk's novel-in-progress Excerpts from SMEDLEY's Secret Guide to World Literature. Woven through with literary, philosophical, and cultural references, Jonathan's narrative muses on his parents' and his friends' complicated lives on the eve of his forced summer's-long departure from his Cambridge home.Excerpts from SMEDLEY's Secret Guide to World Literature first appeared in the June 2011 issue of The Drum, and represents 02139 for our Zip-Code Stories project in collaboration with WBUR. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Askold_Melnyczuk--excerpt_from_Excerpts_from_Smedley-squo-s_Secret_Guide_to_World_Literature.mp3 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:59:19 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoFifteen years old and educated beyond his years, beset by the chaos of his family and a possibly pregnant girlfriend, Jonathan Levy Wainscoting IV narrates Askold Melnyczuk's novel-in-progress Excerpts from SMEDLEY's Secret Guide to World Literature. Woven through with literary, philosophical, and cultural references, Jonathan's narrative muses on his parents' and his friends' complicated lives on the eve of his forced summer's-long departure from his Cambridge home.Excerpts from SMEDLEY's Secret Guide to World Literature first appeared in the June 2011 issue of The Drum, and represents 02139 for our Zip-Code Stories project in collaboration with WBUR.The Drum Literary MagazineFifteen years old and educated beyond his years, beset by the chaos of his family and a possibly pregnant girlfriend, Jonathan Levy Wainscoting IV narrates Askold Melnyczuk's novel-in-progress Excerpts from SMEDLEY's Secret Guide to World Literature. Woven through with literary, philosophical, and cultural references, Jonathan's narrative muses on his parents' and his friends' complicated lives on the eve of his forced summer's-long departure from his Cambridge home.Excerpts from SMEDLEY's Secret Guide to World Literature first appeared in the June 2011 issue of The Drum, and represents 02139 for our Zip-Code Stories project in collaboration with WBUR. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Gina_Ochsner--Sleeping_Beauty.mp3 12:20 Gina Ochsner's "Sleeping Beauty" is a retelling of the old story, set in Yakusha, one of the coldest parts of Russia. In this version, the beauty of the title is a young girl working in a Russian market, seemingly trapped inside her kiosk until a suitor with an unlikely errand frees her. Ochsner's prose mingles the lush details and fantastic elements of folk tales with the realities of the contemporary world. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Gina_Ochsner--Sleeping_Beauty.mp3 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:55:12 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoGina Ochsner's "Sleeping Beauty" is a retelling of the old story, set in Yakusha, one of the coldest parts of Russia. In this version, the beauty of the title is a young girl working in a Russian market, seemingly trapped inside her kiosk until a suitor with an unlikely errand frees her. Ochsner's prose mingles the lush details and fantastic elements of folk tales with the realities of the contemporary world.The Drum Literary MagazineGina Ochsner's "Sleeping Beauty" is a retelling of the old story, set in Yakusha, one of the coldest parts of Russia. In this version, the beauty of the title is a young girl working in a Russian market, seemingly trapped inside her kiosk until a suitor with an unlikely errand frees her. Ochsner's prose mingles the lush details and fantastic elements of folk tales with the realities of the contemporary world. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag3423-318.mp3 36:33 Jael McHenry met with Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power on May 25, 2011 to record an interview for The Drum. Taking her novel The Kitchen Daughter as a starting point, Jael answered questions about cooking culture and history, the meaning of recipes and the ways they bind us together, and the narrative challenges and opportunities of writing from the point of view of a character with Asperger's Syndrome. She also described her favorite Manhattan street food, and gave tips on that invaluable skill of supreme-ing an orange. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag3423-318.mp3 Tue, 31 May 2011 12:31:07 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJael McHenry met with Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power on May 25, 2011 to record an interview for The Drum. Taking her novel The Kitchen Daughter as a starting point, Jael answered questions about cooking culture and history, the meaning of recipes and the ways they bind us together, and the narrative challenges and opportunities of writing from the point of view of a character with Asperger's Syndrome. She also described her favorite Manhattan street food, and gave tips on that invaluable skill of supreme-ing an orange.The Drum Literary MagazineJael McHenry met with Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power on May 25, 2011 to record an interview for The Drum. Taking her novel The Kitchen Daughter as a starting point, Jael answered questions about cooking culture and history, the meaning of recipes and the ways they bind us together, and the narrative challenges and opportunities of writing from the point of view of a character with Asperger's Syndrome. She also described her favorite Manhattan street food, and gave tips on that invaluable skill of supreme-ing an orange. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Nina_Badzin--David.mp3 8:54 In Nina Badzin's short story "David," a post-delivery hospital room is the setting for a skirmish between husband and wife as they debate their new son's name. The decision is rife with social, cultural, and religious implications, seeming to set husband and wife apart even as it brings mother and child together. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Nina_Badzin--David.mp3 Sun, 22 May 2011 14:47:53 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Nina Badzin's short story "David," a post-delivery hospital room is the setting for a skirmish between husband and wife as they debate their new son's name. The decision is rife with social, cultural, and religious implications, seeming to set husband and wife apart even as it brings mother and child together.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Nina Badzin's short story "David," a post-delivery hospital room is the setting for a skirmish between husband and wife as they debate their new son's name. The decision is rife with social, cultural, and religious implications, seeming to set husband and wife apart even as it brings mother and child together. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Rahna_Reiko_Rizzuto--excerpts_from_Hiroshima_in_the_Morning.mp3 21:09 Rahna Reiko Rizzuto's memoir Hiroshima in the Morning weaves together her personal experience during a research sojourn in that city with her growing understanding of the complex political, social, and cultural issues that surround the nuclear bombing and its aftermath. She reads here from three sections of the book, examining the stresses on her marriage as she undergoes this months-long separation from her family, her relationship with her aging mother, and her own changing sense of self. Her writing examines the challenge of memory--what happens when it fails us, and when we fail it by choosing to forget. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Rahna_Reiko_Rizzuto--excerpts_from_Hiroshima_in_the_Morning.mp3 Mon, 16 May 2011 09:51:51 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoRahna Reiko Rizzuto's memoir Hiroshima in the Morning weaves together her personal experience during a research sojourn in that city with her growing understanding of the complex political, social, and cultural issues that surround the nuclear bombing and its aftermath. She reads here from three sections of the book, examining the stresses on her marriage as she undergoes this months-long separation from her family, her relationship with her aging mother, and her own changing sense of self. Her writing examines the challenge of memory--what happens when it fails us, and when we fail it by choosing to forget.The Drum Literary MagazineRahna Reiko Rizzuto's memoir Hiroshima in the Morning weaves together her personal experience during a research sojourn in that city with her growing understanding of the complex political, social, and cultural issues that surround the nuclear bombing and its aftermath. She reads here from three sections of the book, examining the stresses on her marriage as she undergoes this months-long separation from her family, her relationship with her aging mother, and her own changing sense of self. Her writing examines the challenge of memory--what happens when it fails us, and when we fail it by choosing to forget. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Sandra_Jensen--Square_Root.mp3 19:48 Rural Greece is the backdrop for Sandra Jensen's "Square Root," a story propelled by the complex relationships between a mother and her children, the mother and the men she captivates, and a group of village Greeks and the foreign family living among them. Told from the point of view of the little girl, "Square Root" turns a trip to buy a pet goat into a study of social and sexual power. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Sandra_Jensen--Square_Root.mp3 Sun, 08 May 2011 18:22:54 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoRural Greece is the backdrop for Sandra Jensen's "Square Root," a story propelled by the complex relationships between a mother and her children, the mother and the men she captivates, and a group of village Greeks and the foreign family living among them. Told from the point of view of the little girl, "Square Root" turns a trip to buy a pet goat into a study of social and sexual power.The Drum Literary MagazineRural Greece is the backdrop for Sandra Jensen's "Square Root," a story propelled by the complex relationships between a mother and her children, the mother and the men she captivates, and a group of village Greeks and the foreign family living among them. Told from the point of view of the little girl, "Square Root" turns a trip to buy a pet goat into a study of social and sexual power. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Juliette_Fay--excerpt_from_Deep_Down_True.mp3 7:48 Juliette Fay's novel Deep Down True follows Dana Stellgarten as she finds her feet after a divorce. In this excerpt, Dana encounters an unusual--and unusually-colored--addition to her usual array of daily parenting challenges. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Juliette_Fay--excerpt_from_Deep_Down_True.mp3 Sun, 01 May 2011 22:02:57 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJuliette Fay's novel Deep Down True follows Dana Stellgarten as she finds her feet after a divorce. In this excerpt, Dana encounters an unusual--and unusually-colored--addition to her usual array of daily parenting challenges.The Drum Literary MagazineJuliette Fay's novel Deep Down True follows Dana Stellgarten as she finds her feet after a divorce. In this excerpt, Dana encounters an unusual--and unusually-colored--addition to her usual array of daily parenting challenges. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Paul_Harding--Interview.mp3 13:09 In the first of what will be two interivews with The Drum, 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding spoke with editor Henriette Lazaridis Power about his experience as a rock drummer, his fascination with jazz, his views on the craft of writing, and the ways in which a writer, like a drummer, gets to keep and manipulate time. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Paul_Harding--Interview.mp3 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:40:08 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn the first of what will be two interivews with The Drum, 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding spoke with editor Henriette Lazaridis Power about his experience as a rock drummer, his fascination with jazz, his views on the craft of writing, and the ways in which a writer, like a drummer, gets to keep and manipulate time.The Drum Literary MagazineIn the first of what will be two interivews with The Drum, 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding spoke with editor Henriette Lazaridis Power about his experience as a rock drummer, his fascination with jazz, his views on the craft of writing, and the ways in which a writer, like a drummer, gets to keep and manipulate time. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag5796-288.mp3 4:01 Jonathan Papernick's essay "First Night" imagines his parents' wedding night and contemplates the marriage and eventual divorce that grew from that first evening. The essay is a brief but poignant snapshot of a young couple stepping into a new life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag5796-288.mp3 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:45:23 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJonathan Papernick's essay "First Night" imagines his parents' wedding night and contemplates the marriage and eventual divorce that grew from that first evening. The essay is a brief but poignant snapshot of a young couple stepping into a new life.The Drum Literary MagazineJonathan Papernick's essay "First Night" imagines his parents' wedding night and contemplates the marriage and eventual divorce that grew from that first evening. The essay is a brief but poignant snapshot of a young couple stepping into a new life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Drew_Balfour_Jameson--Drown.mp3 14:35 In Drew Balfour Jameson's short story "Drown," a fishing trip--and the gutting, cleaning, and cooking of the day's catch--provides the setting for a wary encounter between a teenaged boy and the new man in his mother's life. "Drown" renders the details of fish-handling with vivid detail, and allows the relationship between the boy and the man to emerge with subtelty, though just as clearly. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Drew_Balfour_Jameson--Drown.mp3 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:29:20 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Drew Balfour Jameson's short story "Drown," a fishing trip--and the gutting, cleaning, and cooking of the day's catch--provides the setting for a wary encounter between a teenaged boy and the new man in his mother's life. "Drown" renders the details of fish-handling with vivid detail, and allows the relationship between the boy and the man to emerge with subtelty, though just as clearly.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Drew Balfour Jameson's short story "Drown," a fishing trip--and the gutting, cleaning, and cooking of the day's catch--provides the setting for a wary encounter between a teenaged boy and the new man in his mother's life. "Drown" renders the details of fish-handling with vivid detail, and allows the relationship between the boy and the man to emerge with subtelty, though just as clearly. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Keith_Temple--It-squo-s_Behind_You.mp3 21:15 Keith Temple's It's Behind You is a story about fame, megalomania and murder. After years in the limelight as a popular soap star, Carina Hemsley is appearing as the Good Fairy in the Christmas pantomime show of a third-rate northern theater, terrorising the cast and crew as she drinks and smokes herself to death. Audiences are down and the outlook for the holiday show isn’t good, until Carina starts receiving death threats in the post. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Keith_Temple--It-squo-s_Behind_You.mp3 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:09:36 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoKeith Temple's It's Behind You is a story about fame, megalomania and murder. After years in the limelight as a popular soap star, Carina Hemsley is appearing as the Good Fairy in the Christmas pantomime show of a third-rate northern theater, terrorising the cast and crew as she drinks and smokes herself to death. Audiences are down and the outlook for the holiday show isn’t good, until Carina starts receiving death threats in the post.The Drum Literary MagazineKeith Temple's It's Behind You is a story about fame, megalomania and murder. After years in the limelight as a popular soap star, Carina Hemsley is appearing as the Good Fairy in the Christmas pantomime show of a third-rate northern theater, terrorising the cast and crew as she drinks and smokes herself to death. Audiences are down and the outlook for the holiday show isn’t good, until Carina starts receiving death threats in the post. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Rebecca_Pawel--Death_of_a_Nationalist.mp3 4:56 Rebecca Pawel's Death of a Nationalist follows Carlos Tejada Alonso y Lean, a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil in Spain in 1939. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and the Republicans has interrupted Tejada's legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, and now triumphant, Nationalist. Just as the Republicans have surrendered, and the Guardia Civil has begun to impose order in the ruins of Madrid, Tejada finds the body of his best friend, a hero of the siege of Toledo, shot to death on a street named Amor de Dios. Naturally, a Red is suspected. And it is easy for Tejada to assume that the woman caught kneeling over the body is the killer. But when his doubts are aroused, he cannot help seeking justice. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Rebecca_Pawel--Death_of_a_Nationalist.mp3 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:29:02 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoRebecca Pawel's Death of a Nationalist follows Carlos Tejada Alonso y Lean, a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil in Spain in 1939. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and the Republicans has interrupted Tejada's legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, and now triumphant, Nationalist. Just as the Republicans have surrendered, and the Guardia Civil has begun to impose order in the ruins of Madrid, Tejada finds the body of his best friend, a hero of the siege of Toledo, shot to death on a street named Amor de Dios. Naturally, a Red is suspected. And it is easy for Tejada to assume that the woman caught kneeling over the body is the killer. But when his doubts are aroused, he cannot help seeking justice.The Drum Literary MagazineRebecca Pawel's Death of a Nationalist follows Carlos Tejada Alonso y Lean, a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil in Spain in 1939. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and the Republicans has interrupted Tejada's legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, and now triumphant, Nationalist. Just as the Republicans have surrendered, and the Guardia Civil has begun to impose order in the ruins of Madrid, Tejada finds the body of his best friend, a hero of the siege of Toledo, shot to death on a street named Amor de Dios. Naturally, a Red is suspected. And it is easy for Tejada to assume that the woman caught kneeling over the body is the killer. But when his doubts are aroused, he cannot help seeking justice. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Christiane_Alsop--Presumed_Guilty.mp3 35:53 "What is it like to be the daughter of a Nazi?" That is the question Christiane Alsop sets out to answer in her essay "Presumed Guilty". Reflecting on her father's tales of his accounts during wartime Germany, contemplating her at-times strained relationship with her father over the years, and her own reactions to the ebb and flow of power, Christiane is torn by the equal tugs of resignation and revelation. Revelation wins out, as she conveys the moral, ethical, and personal challenges of living with that difficult question. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Christiane_Alsop--Presumed_Guilty.mp3 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:18:06 EDT The Drum Literary Magazineno"What is it like to be the daughter of a Nazi?" That is the question Christiane Alsop sets out to answer in her essay "Presumed Guilty". Reflecting on her father's tales of his accounts during wartime Germany, contemplating her at-times strained relationship with her father over the years, and her own reactions to the ebb and flow of power, Christiane is torn by the equal tugs of resignation and revelation. Revelation wins out, as she conveys the moral, ethical, and personal challenges of living with that difficult question.The Drum Literary Magazine"What is it like to be the daughter of a Nazi?" That is the question Christiane Alsop sets out to answer in her essay "Presumed Guilty". Reflecting on her father's tales of his accounts during wartime Germany, contemplating her at-times strained relationship with her father over the years, and her own reactions to the ebb and flow of power, Christiane is torn by the equal tugs of resignation and revelation. Revelation wins out, as she conveys the moral, ethical, and personal challenges of living with that difficult question. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Bruce_Holland_Rogers--Snow_and_Lemons.mp3 8:49 Bruce Holland Rogers' short story "Snow and Lemons" follows Tibor as he tries to lend purpose to his retirement. His two goals--to bring pride to Hungary's younger generation, and to make his neighbor smile--prove to be more challenging than even he might have expected. A Budapest snowstorm is the backdrop for this story about an older man's persistence and his inspired adaptation to the routines of his life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Bruce_Holland_Rogers--Snow_and_Lemons.mp3 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 18:17:51 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoBruce Holland Rogers' short story "Snow and Lemons" follows Tibor as he tries to lend purpose to his retirement. His two goals--to bring pride to Hungary's younger generation, and to make his neighbor smile--prove to be more challenging than even he might have expected. A Budapest snowstorm is the backdrop for this story about an older man's persistence and his inspired adaptation to the routines of his life.The Drum Literary MagazineBruce Holland Rogers' short story "Snow and Lemons" follows Tibor as he tries to lend purpose to his retirement. His two goals--to bring pride to Hungary's younger generation, and to make his neighbor smile--prove to be more challenging than even he might have expected. A Budapest snowstorm is the backdrop for this story about an older man's persistence and his inspired adaptation to the routines of his life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jessica_Yen--Coming_Up_For_Air.mp3 5:17 Jessica Yen's essay "Coming Up For Air" gives us a glimpse of an intriguing social ritual among a group of Beijing men, and looks further outward to notions of community and family both in China and in the US. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jessica_Yen--Coming_Up_For_Air.mp3 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:10:07 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoJessica Yen's essay "Coming Up For Air" gives us a glimpse of an intriguing social ritual among a group of Beijing men, and looks further outward to notions of community and family both in China and in the US.The Drum Literary MagazineJessica Yen's essay "Coming Up For Air" gives us a glimpse of an intriguing social ritual among a group of Beijing men, and looks further outward to notions of community and family both in China and in the US. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag2158-272.mp3 29:30 Lydia Millet's novel Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were integral to the invention of the atom bomb: Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi as they watch history's first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, 1945, and places them down in modern-day Santa Fe. One by one, the scientists are spotted by a shy librarian who becomes convinced of their authenticity. Entranced, bewildered, and overwhelmed by their significance as historical markers on the one hand, and their peculiar personalities on the other, she, to the dismay of her husband, devotes herself to them. Soon the scientists acquire a sugar daddy - a young pothead millionaire from Tokyo who bankrolls them. Heroes to some, lunatics or con artists to others, the scientists finally become messianic religious figureheads to fanatics, who believe Oppenheimer is the Second Coming. As the ever-growing convoy traverses the country in a fleet of RV's on a pilgrimage to the UN, the scientists wrestle with the legacy of their invention and their growing celebrity, while Ann and her husband struggle with the strain on their marriage, a personal journey married to a history of thermonuclear weapons. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag2158-272.mp3 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:58:23 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoLydia Millet's novel Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were integral to the invention of the atom bomb: Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi as they watch history's first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, 1945, and places them down in modern-day Santa Fe. One by one, the scientists are spotted by a shy librarian who becomes convinced of their authenticity. Entranced, bewildered, and overwhelmed by their significance as historical markers on the one hand, and their peculiar personalities on the other, she, to the dismay of her husband, devotes herself to them. Soon the scientists acquire a sugar daddy - a young pothead millionaire from Tokyo who bankrolls them. Heroes to some, lunatics or con artists to others, the scientists finally become messianic religious figureheads to fanatics, who believe Oppenheimer is the Second Coming. As the ever-growing convoy traverses the country in a fleet of RV's on a pilgrimage to the UN, the scientists wrestle with the legacy of their invention and their growing celebrity, while Ann and her husband struggle with the strain on their marriage, a personal journey married to a history of thermonuclear weapons.The Drum Literary MagazineLydia Millet's novel Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were integral to the invention of the atom bomb: Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi as they watch history's first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, 1945, and places them down in modern-day Santa Fe. One by one, the scientists are spotted by a shy librarian who becomes convinced of their authenticity. Entranced, bewildered, and overwhelmed by their significance as historical markers on the one hand, and their peculiar personalities on the other, she, to the dismay of her husband, devotes herself to them. Soon the scientists acquire a sugar daddy - a young pothead millionaire from Tokyo who bankrolls them. Heroes to some, lunatics or con artists to others, the scientists finally become messianic religious figureheads to fanatics, who believe Oppenheimer is the Second Coming. As the ever-growing convoy traverses the country in a fleet of RV's on a pilgrimage to the UN, the scientists wrestle with the legacy of their invention and their growing celebrity, while Ann and her husband struggle with the strain on their marriage, a personal journey married to a history of thermonuclear weapons. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Dustin_Long--Icelander_first_chapter.mp3 41:21 In Dustin Long's novel Icelander, the daughter of a local legend of the investigative arts searches for her dog while avoiding her biological impulse to solve the mystery of her best friend's recent murder. Icelander hums with Norse legend, an alternate reality and a cast of supporting characters including a "rogue library-scientist," a pair of philosophical investigators, and a many-faced villain. Built on mazes of time, language, and narrator, this literary fireworks display shows you what might happen if Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple had been penned by Nabokov then run through Hitchcock's lens. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Dustin_Long--Icelander_first_chapter.mp3 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:08:00 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Dustin Long's novel Icelander, the daughter of a local legend of the investigative arts searches for her dog while avoiding her biological impulse to solve the mystery of her best friend's recent murder. Icelander hums with Norse legend, an alternate reality and a cast of supporting characters including a "rogue library-scientist," a pair of philosophical investigators, and a many-faced villain. Built on mazes of time, language, and narrator, this literary fireworks display shows you what might happen if Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple had been penned by Nabokov then run through Hitchcock's lens.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Dustin Long's novel Icelander, the daughter of a local legend of the investigative arts searches for her dog while avoiding her biological impulse to solve the mystery of her best friend's recent murder. Icelander hums with Norse legend, an alternate reality and a cast of supporting characters including a "rogue library-scientist," a pair of philosophical investigators, and a many-faced villain. Built on mazes of time, language, and narrator, this literary fireworks display shows you what might happen if Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple had been penned by Nabokov then run through Hitchcock's lens. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Susan_Orlean--Interview.mp3 17:58 Susan Orlean followed up her recording of an excerpt from her Rin Tin Tin book for The Drum with an interview with Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power. Orlean asnwered questions about her interest in animals, why dogs hold such a unique place in our lives, and whether there's a place out there that is too boring to write about. She also gave valuable tips on making the most of solitary research travel and how to dine alone. The excerpt from Orlean's forthcoming Rin Tin Tin book appeared in the March 2011 issue of The Drum. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Susan_Orlean--Interview.mp3 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:43:57 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoSusan Orlean followed up her recording of an excerpt from her Rin Tin Tin book for The Drum with an interview with Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power. Orlean asnwered questions about her interest in animals, why dogs hold such a unique place in our lives, and whether there's a place out there that is too boring to write about. She also gave valuable tips on making the most of solitary research travel and how to dine alone. The excerpt from Orlean's forthcoming Rin Tin Tin book appeared in the March 2011 issue of The Drum.The Drum Literary MagazineSusan Orlean followed up her recording of an excerpt from her Rin Tin Tin book for The Drum with an interview with Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power. Orlean asnwered questions about her interest in animals, why dogs hold such a unique place in our lives, and whether there's a place out there that is too boring to write about. She also gave valuable tips on making the most of solitary research travel and how to dine alone. The excerpt from Orlean's forthcoming Rin Tin Tin book appeared in the March 2011 issue of The Drum. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Susan_Orlean--Rin_Tin_Tin_excerpt.mp3 18:08 Susan Orlean has just completed a cultural biography of the dog actor Rin Tin Tin. In the excerpt she recorded for The Drum, she writes about a visit to Paris' Cimetiere des Chiens, the special cemetery for dogs. Looking for Rin Tin Tin's grave, Orlean ponders the history of the pet-person relationship, and explores the human need to memorialize what we love even as we know we can't hold onto it. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Susan_Orlean--Rin_Tin_Tin_excerpt.mp3 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:40:54 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoSusan Orlean has just completed a cultural biography of the dog actor Rin Tin Tin. In the excerpt she recorded for The Drum, she writes about a visit to Paris' Cimetiere des Chiens, the special cemetery for dogs. Looking for Rin Tin Tin's grave, Orlean ponders the history of the pet-person relationship, and explores the human need to memorialize what we love even as we know we can't hold onto it.The Drum Literary MagazineSusan Orlean has just completed a cultural biography of the dog actor Rin Tin Tin. In the excerpt she recorded for The Drum, she writes about a visit to Paris' Cimetiere des Chiens, the special cemetery for dogs. Looking for Rin Tin Tin's grave, Orlean ponders the history of the pet-person relationship, and explores the human need to memorialize what we love even as we know we can't hold onto it. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Kevin_Brown--One_Life.mp3 23:40 The narrator of Kevin Brown's "One Life" returns to Hong Kong after his wife's death from SARS with the sole mission to contract the disease himeslf so that he can be reunited with her. We follow the narrator through the city as he reflects on his marriage, and ponders the strange situation of trying to stay alive so that he can court a particular kind of death. "One Life" is read aloud by Actors' Shakespeare Project actor Bill Barclay. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Kevin_Brown--One_Life.mp3 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:10:47 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe narrator of Kevin Brown's "One Life" returns to Hong Kong after his wife's death from SARS with the sole mission to contract the disease himeslf so that he can be reunited with her. We follow the narrator through the city as he reflects on his marriage, and ponders the strange situation of trying to stay alive so that he can court a particular kind of death. "One Life" is read aloud by Actors' Shakespeare Project actor Bill Barclay.The Drum Literary MagazineThe narrator of Kevin Brown's "One Life" returns to Hong Kong after his wife's death from SARS with the sole mission to contract the disease himeslf so that he can be reunited with her. We follow the narrator through the city as he reflects on his marriage, and ponders the strange situation of trying to stay alive so that he can court a particular kind of death. "One Life" is read aloud by Actors' Shakespeare Project actor Bill Barclay. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Ilie_Ruby--The_Language_of_Trees.mp3 12:41 Ilie Ruby's novel The Language of Trees is set in upstate New York and greatly informed by the Seneca Indians, whose lore imbues the book with spirituality. In 1988, the Ellis children set out on a stormy night in a canoe borrowed from the Songos next door to escape their brutish father. Luke, the youngest, drowns, and his older sisters are never the same: Melanie turns to drugs while Maya suffers bouts of catatonia. Years later, Grant Songo returns to his family's lake cabin after separating from his wife. While running in the woods, a wounded wolf trails him, and when Echo O'Connell, Grant's teenage flame, crashes her car to avoid hitting the wolf, she and Grant reconnect and are drawn into the mystery of the recently missing Melanie. Many locals believe Melanie's back on drugs, but Lion, the father of her baby boy, is convinced she's in danger. These characters face real and psychological fears to endure the transformative experiences needed to become whole in a worthwhile story filled with mysticism and symbolism. Ilie reads from the Maya section of the novel in this excerpt for The Drum. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Ilie_Ruby--The_Language_of_Trees.mp3 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:31:39 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoIlie Ruby's novel The Language of Trees is set in upstate New York and greatly informed by the Seneca Indians, whose lore imbues the book with spirituality. In 1988, the Ellis children set out on a stormy night in a canoe borrowed from the Songos next door to escape their brutish father. Luke, the youngest, drowns, and his older sisters are never the same: Melanie turns to drugs while Maya suffers bouts of catatonia. Years later, Grant Songo returns to his family's lake cabin after separating from his wife. While running in the woods, a wounded wolf trails him, and when Echo O'Connell, Grant's teenage flame, crashes her car to avoid hitting the wolf, she and Grant reconnect and are drawn into the mystery of the recently missing Melanie. Many locals believe Melanie's back on drugs, but Lion, the father of her baby boy, is convinced she's in danger. These characters face real and psychological fears to endure the transformative experiences needed to become whole in a worthwhile story filled with mysticism and symbolism. Ilie reads from the Maya section of the novel in this excerpt for The Drum.The Drum Literary MagazineIlie Ruby's novel The Language of Trees is set in upstate New York and greatly informed by the Seneca Indians, whose lore imbues the book with spirituality. In 1988, the Ellis children set out on a stormy night in a canoe borrowed from the Songos next door to escape their brutish father. Luke, the youngest, drowns, and his older sisters are never the same: Melanie turns to drugs while Maya suffers bouts of catatonia. Years later, Grant Songo returns to his family's lake cabin after separating from his wife. While running in the woods, a wounded wolf trails him, and when Echo O'Connell, Grant's teenage flame, crashes her car to avoid hitting the wolf, she and Grant reconnect and are drawn into the mystery of the recently missing Melanie. Many locals believe Melanie's back on drugs, but Lion, the father of her baby boy, is convinced she's in danger. These characters face real and psychological fears to endure the transformative experiences needed to become whole in a worthwhile story filled with mysticism and symbolism. Ilie reads from the Maya section of the novel in this excerpt for The Drum. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Miriam_Novogrodsky--The_Year_We_Ate_Half_A_Cow.mp3 14:01 Miriam Novogrodsky writes about growing up an outsider in Montpelier, Vermont, and the year her father's winter obsession turned to economical meat-eating and the creative use of the compost pile. This is a tale of chest freezers, prairie bonnets, and snowshoe picnics with unusual sandwiches. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Miriam_Novogrodsky--The_Year_We_Ate_Half_A_Cow.mp3 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:42:26 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoMiriam Novogrodsky writes about growing up an outsider in Montpelier, Vermont, and the year her father's winter obsession turned to economical meat-eating and the creative use of the compost pile. This is a tale of chest freezers, prairie bonnets, and snowshoe picnics with unusual sandwiches.The Drum Literary MagazineMiriam Novogrodsky writes about growing up an outsider in Montpelier, Vermont, and the year her father's winter obsession turned to economical meat-eating and the creative use of the compost pile. This is a tale of chest freezers, prairie bonnets, and snowshoe picnics with unusual sandwiches. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jennifer_Haigh--Interview.mp3 22:56 Jennifer Haigh met with The Drum's editor Henriette Lazaridis Power to answer questions about movies, film adaptations, Edith Piaf, and why she prefers gray days. Jennifer also talked about the ideas behind her novels, including her fourth, FAITH, which is due out in May 2011. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jennifer_Haigh--Interview.mp3 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:55:58 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoJennifer Haigh met with The Drum's editor Henriette Lazaridis Power to answer questions about movies, film adaptations, Edith Piaf, and why she prefers gray days. Jennifer also talked about the ideas behind her novels, including her fourth, FAITH, which is due out in May 2011.The Drum Literary MagazineJennifer Haigh met with The Drum's editor Henriette Lazaridis Power to answer questions about movies, film adaptations, Edith Piaf, and why she prefers gray days. Jennifer also talked about the ideas behind her novels, including her fourth, FAITH, which is due out in May 2011. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-No_Lease_on_Life.mp3 29:34 The East Village streets of Lynne Tillman's No Lease on Life are overrun with crooked cops, drug addicts, pimps and prostitutes. Garbage piles up along the sidewalks amid the blaring soundtrack of car stereos. Confrontations are supercharged by the summer heat wave. This merciless noise has left Elizabeth Hall an insomniac. Junkies roam her building and overturn trashcans, but the mean-spirited landlord refuses to help clean or repair the decrepit conditions. Live-in boyfriend Roy is good-natured but too avoidant to soothe the sores of city life. Though Elizabeth fights on for normalcy and sanity in this apathetic metropolis, violent fantasies threaten to push her over the edge. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-No_Lease_on_Life.mp3 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:05:22 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe East Village streets of Lynne Tillman's No Lease on Life are overrun with crooked cops, drug addicts, pimps and prostitutes. Garbage piles up along the sidewalks amid the blaring soundtrack of car stereos. Confrontations are supercharged by the summer heat wave. This merciless noise has left Elizabeth Hall an insomniac. Junkies roam her building and overturn trashcans, but the mean-spirited landlord refuses to help clean or repair the decrepit conditions. Live-in boyfriend Roy is good-natured but too avoidant to soothe the sores of city life. Though Elizabeth fights on for normalcy and sanity in this apathetic metropolis, violent fantasies threaten to push her over the edge.The Drum Literary MagazineThe East Village streets of Lynne Tillman's No Lease on Life are overrun with crooked cops, drug addicts, pimps and prostitutes. Garbage piles up along the sidewalks amid the blaring soundtrack of car stereos. Confrontations are supercharged by the summer heat wave. This merciless noise has left Elizabeth Hall an insomniac. Junkies roam her building and overturn trashcans, but the mean-spirited landlord refuses to help clean or repair the decrepit conditions. Live-in boyfriend Roy is good-natured but too avoidant to soothe the sores of city life. Though Elizabeth fights on for normalcy and sanity in this apathetic metropolis, violent fantasies threaten to push her over the edge. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-All_My_Friends.mp3 11:12 Through a partnership with Iambik Audiobooks, we bring you the first chapter of Andrew Kaufman's novel All My Friends Are Superheroes, published by Coach House Books. Gordon Mackenzie reads the chapter aloud.All Tom's friends really are superheroes. There's the Ear, the Spooner, the Impossible Man. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, the Perfectionist was hypnotized (by ex-boyfriend Hypno, of course) to believe that Tom is invisible. Nothing he does can make her see him. So she's moving to Vancouver. She'll use her superpower to make Vancouver perfect and leave all the heartbreak in Toronto. With no idea Tom's beside her, she boards an airplane in Toronto. Tom has until the wheels touch the ground in Vancouver to convince her he's visible, or he loses her forever. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-All_My_Friends.mp3 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:20:44 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThrough a partnership with Iambik Audiobooks, we bring you the first chapter of Andrew Kaufman's novel All My Friends Are Superheroes, published by Coach House Books. Gordon Mackenzie reads the chapter aloud.All Tom's friends really are superheroes. There's the Ear, the Spooner, the Impossible Man. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, the Perfectionist was hypnotized (by ex-boyfriend Hypno, of course) to believe that Tom is invisible. Nothing he does can make her see him. So she's moving to Vancouver. She'll use her superpower to make Vancouver perfect and leave all the heartbreak in Toronto. With no idea Tom's beside her, she boards an airplane in Toronto. Tom has until the wheels touch the ground in Vancouver to convince her he's visible, or he loses her forever.The Drum Literary MagazineThrough a partnership with Iambik Audiobooks, we bring you the first chapter of Andrew Kaufman's novel All My Friends Are Superheroes, published by Coach House Books. Gordon Mackenzie reads the chapter aloud.All Tom's friends really are superheroes. There's the Ear, the Spooner, the Impossible Man. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, the Perfectionist was hypnotized (by ex-boyfriend Hypno, of course) to believe that Tom is invisible. Nothing he does can make her see him. So she's moving to Vancouver. She'll use her superpower to make Vancouver perfect and leave all the heartbreak in Toronto. With no idea Tom's beside her, she boards an airplane in Toronto. Tom has until the wheels touch the ground in Vancouver to convince her he's visible, or he loses her forever. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Steven_Lee_Beeber--Blood-Red_Nails_Pale_Cold_Hands.mp3 16:34 The narrator of Steven Lee Beeber's short story "Blood-Red Nails, Pale Cold Hands" contemplates the strange combinations of violence and tenderness that underlie his relationships with the important women in his life. The story begins with an accident witnessed in childhood and concludes with the scratches left from passion. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Steven_Lee_Beeber--Blood-Red_Nails_Pale_Cold_Hands.mp3 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:01:27 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe narrator of Steven Lee Beeber's short story "Blood-Red Nails, Pale Cold Hands" contemplates the strange combinations of violence and tenderness that underlie his relationships with the important women in his life. The story begins with an accident witnessed in childhood and concludes with the scratches left from passion.The Drum Literary MagazineThe narrator of Steven Lee Beeber's short story "Blood-Red Nails, Pale Cold Hands" contemplates the strange combinations of violence and tenderness that underlie his relationships with the important women in his life. The story begins with an accident witnessed in childhood and concludes with the scratches left from passion. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Sarah_Nager--Horseshoe_Hunt.mp3 13:13 Sarah Nager's "Horseshoe Hunt" brings a weary young woman and an enthusiastic little boy together on a beach where their attitudes and world views collide over a horseshoe crab. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Sarah_Nager--Horseshoe_Hunt.mp3 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:19:15 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoSarah Nager's "Horseshoe Hunt" brings a weary young woman and an enthusiastic little boy together on a beach where their attitudes and world views collide over a horseshoe crab.The Drum Literary MagazineSarah Nager's "Horseshoe Hunt" brings a weary young woman and an enthusiastic little boy together on a beach where their attitudes and world views collide over a horseshoe crab. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jenna_Blum_interview_copy.mp3 39:26 Jenna Blum joined Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power to answer questions about her writing room, snow bombs, synaesthesia, Woodrow, the stormchasing dog, and what she sings along to while she's driving across the wide open spaces of the US. Jenna's second novel THE STORMCHASERS will be coming out in paperback on April 26, 2011. She read a chapter of the novel for The Drum's May 2010 issue. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Jenna_Blum_interview_copy.mp3 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:18:18 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoJenna Blum joined Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power to answer questions about her writing room, snow bombs, synaesthesia, Woodrow, the stormchasing dog, and what she sings along to while she's driving across the wide open spaces of the US. Jenna's second novel THE STORMCHASERS will be coming out in paperback on April 26, 2011. She read a chapter of the novel for The Drum's May 2010 issue.The Drum Literary MagazineJenna Blum joined Drum editor Henriette Lazaridis Power to answer questions about her writing room, snow bombs, synaesthesia, Woodrow, the stormchasing dog, and what she sings along to while she's driving across the wide open spaces of the US. Jenna's second novel THE STORMCHASERS will be coming out in paperback on April 26, 2011. She read a chapter of the novel for The Drum's May 2010 issue. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Steven_Brykman--You_Know_How_It_Is.mp3 10:37 Steven Brykman's essay "You Know How It Is" puts a comical spin on Jewish identity, Hasidic fashion, and the perils of running errands when your girlfriend finds you annoying. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Steven_Brykman--You_Know_How_It_Is.mp3 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:51:22 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoSteven Brykman's essay "You Know How It Is" puts a comical spin on Jewish identity, Hasidic fashion, and the perils of running errands when your girlfriend finds you annoying.The Drum Literary MagazineSteven Brykman's essay "You Know How It Is" puts a comical spin on Jewish identity, Hasidic fashion, and the perils of running errands when your girlfriend finds you annoying. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Katrina_Grigg-Saito_sample.mp3 :33 Katrina Grigg-Saito's essay "The Original Feminist" provides a tender portrait of her grandmother Mimi who did it all--worked as a hairdresser, raised five children, tailored stylish clothes, and advocated for education--in the pre-Civil-Rights South. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Katrina_Grigg-Saito_sample.mp3 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:44:50 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoKatrina Grigg-Saito's essay "The Original Feminist" provides a tender portrait of her grandmother Mimi who did it all--worked as a hairdresser, raised five children, tailored stylish clothes, and advocated for education--in the pre-Civil-Rights South.The Drum Literary MagazineKatrina Grigg-Saito's essay "The Original Feminist" provides a tender portrait of her grandmother Mimi who did it all--worked as a hairdresser, raised five children, tailored stylish clothes, and advocated for education--in the pre-Civil-Rights South. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Veronique_Hyland_sample.mp3 :30 Veronique Hyland's short story "Orchard", inspired by the Wineville Chicken Coop murders in 1920s California, is an evocative study of complicity, guilt, and the cost of a young boy's confused loyalty. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Veronique_Hyland_sample.mp3 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:04:03 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoVeronique Hyland's short story "Orchard", inspired by the Wineville Chicken Coop murders in 1920s California, is an evocative study of complicity, guilt, and the cost of a young boy's confused loyalty.The Drum Literary MagazineVeronique Hyland's short story "Orchard", inspired by the Wineville Chicken Coop murders in 1920s California, is an evocative study of complicity, guilt, and the cost of a young boy's confused loyalty. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CD_Collins_sample.mp3 :30 CD Collins' essay "The Vigilantes of Vance" is a portrait of her candy-eating, derringer-toting, fast-driving mother, and a drily funny story of the woman's power to enthrall those around her. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-CD_Collins_sample.mp3 Sun, 05 Dec 2010 19:42:09 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoCD Collins' essay "The Vigilantes of Vance" is a portrait of her candy-eating, derringer-toting, fast-driving mother, and a drily funny story of the woman's power to enthrall those around her.The Drum Literary MagazineCD Collins' essay "The Vigilantes of Vance" is a portrait of her candy-eating, derringer-toting, fast-driving mother, and a drily funny story of the woman's power to enthrall those around her. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Boy_sample.mp3 :36 Bret Anthony Johnston closes his reading at the November 15 Four Stories event by announcing he will be plagiarizing Jamaica Kincaid's famous story "Girl". Here is his short piece "Boy". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Boy_sample.mp3 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:32:49 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoBret Anthony Johnston closes his reading at the November 15 Four Stories event by announcing he will be plagiarizing Jamaica Kincaid's famous story "Girl". Here is his short piece "Boy".The Drum Literary MagazineBret Anthony Johnston closes his reading at the November 15 Four Stories event by announcing he will be plagiarizing Jamaica Kincaid's famous story "Girl". Here is his short piece "Boy". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_End_of_Summer_sample.mp3 :33 Bret Anthony Johnston spins a story about loss of innocence, loyalty, and betrayal from a simple prompt: one sentence from an author's correspondence. Bret's sentence? "Sex doesn't start on an eighteenth birthday at midnight." https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_End_of_Summer_sample.mp3 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:32:03 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoBret Anthony Johnston spins a story about loss of innocence, loyalty, and betrayal from a simple prompt: one sentence from an author's correspondence. Bret's sentence? "Sex doesn't start on an eighteenth birthday at midnight."The Drum Literary MagazineBret Anthony Johnston spins a story about loss of innocence, loyalty, and betrayal from a simple prompt: one sentence from an author's correspondence. Bret's sentence? "Sex doesn't start on an eighteenth birthday at midnight." https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Porn_Star_sample.mp3 :33 Bret Anthony Johnston starts off his reading at the November 15 Four Stories/Drum event with "Porn Star," his entry for a dictionary of dirty words. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Porn_Star_sample.mp3 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:30:53 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoBret Anthony Johnston starts off his reading at the November 15 Four Stories/Drum event with "Porn Star," his entry for a dictionary of dirty words.The Drum Literary MagazineBret Anthony Johnston starts off his reading at the November 15 Four Stories/Drum event with "Porn Star," his entry for a dictionary of dirty words. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Sea_Escape_-oparen-Four_Stories-cparen-_sample.mp3 :33 At the November 15 Four Stories event, Lynne Griffin reads a central chapter from Sea Escape, her novel about the ties between a mother and her daughter, inspired by a collection of family letters. To hear Lynne read the first two chapters of the novel for The Drum, click here and here. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Sea_Escape_-oparen-Four_Stories-cparen-_sample.mp3 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:49:52 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoAt the November 15 Four Stories event, Lynne Griffin reads a central chapter from Sea Escape, her novel about the ties between a mother and her daughter, inspired by a collection of family letters. To hear Lynne read the first two chapters of the novel for The Drum, click here and here.The Drum Literary MagazineAt the November 15 Four Stories event, Lynne Griffin reads a central chapter from Sea Escape, her novel about the ties between a mother and her daughter, inspired by a collection of family letters. To hear Lynne read the first two chapters of the novel for The Drum, click here and here. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Michelle_Hoover--The_Quickening_-oparen-sample-cparen-.mp3 1:04 Michelle Hoover reads from her novel The Quickening at the November 15 Four Stories event, choosing a scene that dramatizes the themes of loss and perseverance at the novel's core. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Michelle_Hoover--The_Quickening_-oparen-sample-cparen-.mp3 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:19:10 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoMichelle Hoover reads from her novel The Quickening at the November 15 Four Stories event, choosing a scene that dramatizes the themes of loss and perseverance at the novel's core.The Drum Literary MagazineMichelle Hoover reads from her novel The Quickening at the November 15 Four Stories event, choosing a scene that dramatizes the themes of loss and perseverance at the novel's core. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Just_to_See_If_I_Could_sample.mp3 :31 Reading at the November 15 Four Stories event, Ethan Gilsdorf begins with a boy facing a woodchuck, and leads us through a humorous and complex contemplation of the nature of play, cruelty, and kindness, in his essay "Just To See If I Could". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Just_to_See_If_I_Could_sample.mp3 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:02:03 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoReading at the November 15 Four Stories event, Ethan Gilsdorf begins with a boy facing a woodchuck, and leads us through a humorous and complex contemplation of the nature of play, cruelty, and kindness, in his essay "Just To See If I Could".The Drum Literary MagazineReading at the November 15 Four Stories event, Ethan Gilsdorf begins with a boy facing a woodchuck, and leads us through a humorous and complex contemplation of the nature of play, cruelty, and kindness, in his essay "Just To See If I Could". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-FaithSalieintroducesFourStories.mp3 4:38 Faith Salie welcomes the crowd at Cambridge's Enormous Room to the November 15 Four Stories event in collaboration with The Drum, goes over the ground rules--and opines on The Great Gatsby, pageants, and catheters. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-FaithSalieintroducesFourStories.mp3 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:48:29 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoFaith Salie welcomes the crowd at Cambridge's Enormous Room to the November 15 Four Stories event in collaboration with The Drum, goes over the ground rules--and opines on The Great Gatsby, pageants, and catheters.The Drum Literary MagazineFaith Salie welcomes the crowd at Cambridge's Enormous Room to the November 15 Four Stories event in collaboration with The Drum, goes over the ground rules--and opines on The Great Gatsby, pageants, and catheters. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Veronica-squo-s_Nap_excerpt_sample.mp3 :31 Sharon Bially's novel Veronica's Nap opens with the high winds of summer in the south of France, twin toddlers, and the pressures of painter's block. Hear the first chapter here, and read the rest at Veronica's Nap. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Veronica-squo-s_Nap_excerpt_sample.mp3 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:18:00 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoSharon Bially's novel Veronica's Nap opens with the high winds of summer in the south of France, twin toddlers, and the pressures of painter's block. Hear the first chapter here, and read the rest at Veronica's Nap.The Drum Literary MagazineSharon Bially's novel Veronica's Nap opens with the high winds of summer in the south of France, twin toddlers, and the pressures of painter's block. Hear the first chapter here, and read the rest at Veronica's Nap. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Plumbing_Problems_sample.mp3 :34 Ann King's "Plumbing Problems" sets a cancer diagnosis in the world of a plumbing supply company, where the bright white of a porcelain tub, and the cramped space of a backroom toilet give us a fresh look on an all too common event. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Plumbing_Problems_sample.mp3 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:32:12 EST The Drum Literary MagazinenoAnn King's "Plumbing Problems" sets a cancer diagnosis in the world of a plumbing supply company, where the bright white of a porcelain tub, and the cramped space of a backroom toilet give us a fresh look on an all too common event.The Drum Literary MagazineAnn King's "Plumbing Problems" sets a cancer diagnosis in the world of a plumbing supply company, where the bright white of a porcelain tub, and the cramped space of a backroom toilet give us a fresh look on an all too common event. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Elyssa_East_sample.mp3 1:04 Elyssa East’s first book, Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, interlaces the true story of a grisly murder with the strange history of a wilderness ghost town and explores the possibility that certain landscapes wield their own unique power. She reads here from the prologue of the book, "The Prophetic Pictures." https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Elyssa_East_sample.mp3 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:09:17 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoElyssa East’s first book, Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, interlaces the true story of a grisly murder with the strange history of a wilderness ghost town and explores the possibility that certain landscapes wield their own unique power. She reads here from the prologue of the book, "The Prophetic Pictures."The Drum Literary MagazineElyssa East’s first book, Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town, interlaces the true story of a grisly murder with the strange history of a wilderness ghost town and explores the possibility that certain landscapes wield their own unique power. She reads here from the prologue of the book, "The Prophetic Pictures." https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BBF_Web_of_Relationship_sample.mp3 4:04 Courtesy of the Boston Book Festival, a recording of the Web of Relationship panel with Ann Hood, Brunonia Barry, and Joanna Smith Rakoff, moderated by Henriette Lazaridis Power. The discussion took place in the Rabb Lecture Hall of the Boston Public Library on Saturday, October 16th.We hope you enjoy the discussion of secrets in novels, structure, the obligations that come with connection, and how to write novels in the post-cell-phone age. Audience members asking questions include one author's blast from the past, a twentysomething who's not on Facebook, and a ten-year-old writer looking for tips. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-BBF_Web_of_Relationship_sample.mp3 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:05:57 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoCourtesy of the Boston Book Festival, a recording of the Web of Relationship panel with Ann Hood, Brunonia Barry, and Joanna Smith Rakoff, moderated by Henriette Lazaridis Power. The discussion took place in the Rabb Lecture Hall of the Boston Public Library on Saturday, October 16th.We hope you enjoy the discussion of secrets in novels, structure, the obligations that come with connection, and how to write novels in the post-cell-phone age. Audience members asking questions include one author's blast from the past, a twentysomething who's not on Facebook, and a ten-year-old writer looking for tips.The Drum Literary MagazineCourtesy of the Boston Book Festival, a recording of the Web of Relationship panel with Ann Hood, Brunonia Barry, and Joanna Smith Rakoff, moderated by Henriette Lazaridis Power. The discussion took place in the Rabb Lecture Hall of the Boston Public Library on Saturday, October 16th.We hope you enjoy the discussion of secrets in novels, structure, the obligations that come with connection, and how to write novels in the post-cell-phone age. Audience members asking questions include one author's blast from the past, a twentysomething who's not on Facebook, and a ten-year-old writer looking for tips. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Climb_sample.mp3 :31 Shubha Sunder's "Climb" layers relationships between cousins, between mothers and daughters, and between brothers and sisters with the tug between two cultures. In Sunder's story, a voyage with Trupti's relatives visiting from America turns out to reveal the stresses within the older girl's seemingly perfect life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Climb_sample.mp3 Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:11:39 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoShubha Sunder's "Climb" layers relationships between cousins, between mothers and daughters, and between brothers and sisters with the tug between two cultures. In Sunder's story, a voyage with Trupti's relatives visiting from America turns out to reveal the stresses within the older girl's seemingly perfect life.The Drum Literary MagazineShubha Sunder's "Climb" layers relationships between cousins, between mothers and daughters, and between brothers and sisters with the tug between two cultures. In Sunder's story, a voyage with Trupti's relatives visiting from America turns out to reveal the stresses within the older girl's seemingly perfect life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/JenniferHaigh--ClaireoftheMoon.mp3 24:44 Award-winning novelist Jennifer Haigh's "Claire of the Moon" tells the story of a little girl who can't tolerate the sun and the adults who try to shield her or to let her bask in its reflection. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/JenniferHaigh--ClaireoftheMoon.mp3 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:35:13 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAward-winning novelist Jennifer Haigh's "Claire of the Moon" tells the story of a little girl who can't tolerate the sun and the adults who try to shield her or to let her bask in its reflection.The Drum Literary MagazineAward-winning novelist Jennifer Haigh's "Claire of the Moon" tells the story of a little girl who can't tolerate the sun and the adults who try to shield her or to let her bask in its reflection. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-hospitalscene.mp3 :37 Sometimes great entertainment comes in tiny packages. Here is a tweet-sized clip from the interview that gave rise to Deborah Milstein's essay about Yiddish, her grandmother, and her response to her Jewish heritage. The essay can be found in our archives, through Nimbit. Follow the Nimbit link below. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-hospitalscene.mp3 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:24:13 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoSometimes great entertainment comes in tiny packages. Here is a tweet-sized clip from the interview that gave rise to Deborah Milstein's essay about Yiddish, her grandmother, and her response to her Jewish heritage. The essay can be found in our archives, through Nimbit. Follow the Nimbit link below.The Drum Literary MagazineSometimes great entertainment comes in tiny packages. Here is a tweet-sized clip from the interview that gave rise to Deborah Milstein's essay about Yiddish, her grandmother, and her response to her Jewish heritage. The essay can be found in our archives, through Nimbit. Follow the Nimbit link below. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-A_Yiddish_Vocabulary_sample.mp3 :32 A feisty grandmother, Yiddish nicknames, and a hospital stay come together in Deborah Milstein's "A Yiddish Vocabulary." Milstein's essay offers a reverie on Jewish heritage and on the words that bind family together. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-A_Yiddish_Vocabulary_sample.mp3 Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:18:16 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA feisty grandmother, Yiddish nicknames, and a hospital stay come together in Deborah Milstein's "A Yiddish Vocabulary." Milstein's essay offers a reverie on Jewish heritage and on the words that bind family together.The Drum Literary MagazineA feisty grandmother, Yiddish nicknames, and a hospital stay come together in Deborah Milstein's "A Yiddish Vocabulary." Milstein's essay offers a reverie on Jewish heritage and on the words that bind family together. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_Good_Wife_sample.mp3 :31 Sandra Jensen's "The Good Wife," set in the South Africa of the 1950s, explores difficulties facing a politically motivated woman who has given up her anti-apartheid activities to look after her husband and young son. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_Good_Wife_sample.mp3 Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:54:16 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoSandra Jensen's "The Good Wife," set in the South Africa of the 1950s, explores difficulties facing a politically motivated woman who has given up her anti-apartheid activities to look after her husband and young son.The Drum Literary MagazineSandra Jensen's "The Good Wife," set in the South Africa of the 1950s, explores difficulties facing a politically motivated woman who has given up her anti-apartheid activities to look after her husband and young son. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-excerpt_from_Burn_sample.mp3 :36 In an excerpt from her novel BURN, South Carolina-based Alexis Stratton writes about a teenage girl dealing with the aftermath of a fire and her mother's curious take on fate. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-excerpt_from_Burn_sample.mp3 Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:03:31 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn an excerpt from her novel BURN, South Carolina-based Alexis Stratton writes about a teenage girl dealing with the aftermath of a fire and her mother's curious take on fate.The Drum Literary MagazineIn an excerpt from her novel BURN, South Carolina-based Alexis Stratton writes about a teenage girl dealing with the aftermath of a fire and her mother's curious take on fate. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-My_Smelling_Mouth_Problem_sample.mp3 :38 A. Igoni Barrett's "My Smelling Mouth Problem" brings together a Nigerian traffic jam, popular music, and a bad case of halitosis to tell a lively story about personal and cultural independence. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-My_Smelling_Mouth_Problem_sample.mp3 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:49:41 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA. Igoni Barrett's "My Smelling Mouth Problem" brings together a Nigerian traffic jam, popular music, and a bad case of halitosis to tell a lively story about personal and cultural independence.The Drum Literary MagazineA. Igoni Barrett's "My Smelling Mouth Problem" brings together a Nigerian traffic jam, popular music, and a bad case of halitosis to tell a lively story about personal and cultural independence. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Drowning_sample.mp3 :34 As a young girl faces the break-up of her home town, she confronts a larger tragedy in her own family. The competing forces of dissolution and re-collection meet in journalist and fiction writer Leslie Schultz's short story "Drowning". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Drowning_sample.mp3 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:09:27 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAs a young girl faces the break-up of her home town, she confronts a larger tragedy in her own family. The competing forces of dissolution and re-collection meet in journalist and fiction writer Leslie Schultz's short story "Drowning".The Drum Literary MagazineAs a young girl faces the break-up of her home town, she confronts a larger tragedy in her own family. The competing forces of dissolution and re-collection meet in journalist and fiction writer Leslie Schultz's short story "Drowning". https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Twenty_Five_sample.mp3 :35 Pennsylvania writer Jamye Shelleby's short story "Twenty Five" contemplates the metaphysics of loss through a brother-sister relationship remembered through markers in time. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Twenty_Five_sample.mp3 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:05:16 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoPennsylvania writer Jamye Shelleby's short story "Twenty Five" contemplates the metaphysics of loss through a brother-sister relationship remembered through markers in time.The Drum Literary MagazinePennsylvania writer Jamye Shelleby's short story "Twenty Five" contemplates the metaphysics of loss through a brother-sister relationship remembered through markers in time. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Heeding_Doctor_Eisner_sample.mp3 :36 In Newbury College professor Aaron Tillman's "Heeding Doctor Eisner," an over-analyzing academic comes undone as he clings to sociological theory and to questionable sources of advice in the figures of his boss, his student, and his fellow commuters. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Heeding_Doctor_Eisner_sample.mp3 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:40:40 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Newbury College professor Aaron Tillman's "Heeding Doctor Eisner," an over-analyzing academic comes undone as he clings to sociological theory and to questionable sources of advice in the figures of his boss, his student, and his fellow commuters.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Newbury College professor Aaron Tillman's "Heeding Doctor Eisner," an over-analyzing academic comes undone as he clings to sociological theory and to questionable sources of advice in the figures of his boss, his student, and his fellow commuters. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Wind_in_the_Willows_sample.mp3 :47 Who better to read aloud Kenneth Grahame's famous passage about the delight of "messing about in boats" than the rowers and staff at Boston's Community Rowing, Inc.? The Drum stopped by the boathouse early one morning last week and found a group of willing--and even enthusiastic--participants just coming off the water. Community Rowing is one of the largest public boat clubs in the United States, introducing people of all ages and all abilities to the sport of rowing. Visit their website for more info. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Wind_in_the_Willows_sample.mp3 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:51:17 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoWho better to read aloud Kenneth Grahame's famous passage about the delight of "messing about in boats" than the rowers and staff at Boston's Community Rowing, Inc.? The Drum stopped by the boathouse early one morning last week and found a group of willing--and even enthusiastic--participants just coming off the water. Community Rowing is one of the largest public boat clubs in the United States, introducing people of all ages and all abilities to the sport of rowing. Visit their website for more info.The Drum Literary MagazineWho better to read aloud Kenneth Grahame's famous passage about the delight of "messing about in boats" than the rowers and staff at Boston's Community Rowing, Inc.? The Drum stopped by the boathouse early one morning last week and found a group of willing--and even enthusiastic--participants just coming off the water. Community Rowing is one of the largest public boat clubs in the United States, introducing people of all ages and all abilities to the sport of rowing. Visit their website for more info. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/AllisonWilliams--Snake1.mp3 4:16 Allison Williams’ “Snake” finds two children playing in a muddy yard. Their game turns to a scuffle made dangerous when their father returns, sure to be angry at the mess they’ve made. Williams’ brief piece offers an intense study of the blurred line between protection and harm. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/AllisonWilliams--Snake1.mp3 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:06:29 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAllison Williams’ “Snake” finds two children playing in a muddy yard. Their game turns to a scuffle made dangerous when their father returns, sure to be angry at the mess they’ve made. Williams’ brief piece offers an intense study of the blurred line between protection and harm.The Drum Literary MagazineAllison Williams’ “Snake” finds two children playing in a muddy yard. Their game turns to a scuffle made dangerous when their father returns, sure to be angry at the mess they’ve made. Williams’ brief piece offers an intense study of the blurred line between protection and harm. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Local_Appetites_sample.mp3 :32 Three narrators take the listener through a range of responses to American culture. A Bolivian tour guide, a Taiwanese businesswoman, and a young Palestinian give us three perspectives on America’s relations with the world, all of them with a hamburger at the core of the story. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Local_Appetites_sample.mp3 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:26:17 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThree narrators take the listener through a range of responses to American culture. A Bolivian tour guide, a Taiwanese businesswoman, and a young Palestinian give us three perspectives on America’s relations with the world, all of them with a hamburger at the core of the story.The Drum Literary MagazineThree narrators take the listener through a range of responses to American culture. A Bolivian tour guide, a Taiwanese businesswoman, and a young Palestinian give us three perspectives on America’s relations with the world, all of them with a hamburger at the core of the story. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-A_Haunt_of_Memory_sample.mp3 :33 In Tara Masih’s “Haunt of Memory,” the narrator describes how he prunes the spirit tress of his blind friend Phineas to keep the bad spirits and memories away from his home. This short piece captures the beauty of the trees and of the friendship, and evokes an old man’s hard life on the edge of twilight. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-A_Haunt_of_Memory_sample.mp3 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:17:37 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Tara Masih’s “Haunt of Memory,” the narrator describes how he prunes the spirit tress of his blind friend Phineas to keep the bad spirits and memories away from his home. This short piece captures the beauty of the trees and of the friendship, and evokes an old man’s hard life on the edge of twilight.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Tara Masih’s “Haunt of Memory,” the narrator describes how he prunes the spirit tress of his blind friend Phineas to keep the bad spirits and memories away from his home. This short piece captures the beauty of the trees and of the friendship, and evokes an old man’s hard life on the edge of twilight. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Testimony_sample.mp3 :34 The female narrator of Pete Smith’s “Testimony” tells the story of an affair that starts with a cloud of drinks and ends in the mystery of not knowing a partner. Smith explores the ways in which a self can become lost between a past and a present, youth and maturity--and intoxicating drinks and an even more intoxicating partner. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Testimony_sample.mp3 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:13:05 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe female narrator of Pete Smith’s “Testimony” tells the story of an affair that starts with a cloud of drinks and ends in the mystery of not knowing a partner. Smith explores the ways in which a self can become lost between a past and a present, youth and maturity--and intoxicating drinks and an even more intoxicating partner.The Drum Literary MagazineThe female narrator of Pete Smith’s “Testimony” tells the story of an affair that starts with a cloud of drinks and ends in the mystery of not knowing a partner. Smith explores the ways in which a self can become lost between a past and a present, youth and maturity--and intoxicating drinks and an even more intoxicating partner. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Tickle_or_Torture_sample.mp3 :35 In his essay “Tickle or Torture,” Vestal McIntyre recounts his Wednesday-night teasings as the youngest of seven in an Idaho town. While his parents are attending Bible study, McIntyre is poked, prodded, tickled, and tortured by his siblings, although all he really desires is to be left alone. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Tickle_or_Torture_sample.mp3 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:55:32 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn his essay “Tickle or Torture,” Vestal McIntyre recounts his Wednesday-night teasings as the youngest of seven in an Idaho town. While his parents are attending Bible study, McIntyre is poked, prodded, tickled, and tortured by his siblings, although all he really desires is to be left alone.The Drum Literary MagazineIn his essay “Tickle or Torture,” Vestal McIntyre recounts his Wednesday-night teasings as the youngest of seven in an Idaho town. While his parents are attending Bible study, McIntyre is poked, prodded, tickled, and tortured by his siblings, although all he really desires is to be left alone. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Skin_for_Skin_sample.mp3 :32 While her parents are attending her baby cousin’s circumcision ceremony, the teenage narrator of Jonathan Papernick’s “Skin for Skin” invites an intriguing new boy from school over to her home. The narrator is not Jewish, as her parents are, but her views on religion and family begin to change as she contemplates sleeping with the boy, demanding of him an intriguing bargain. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Skin_for_Skin_sample.mp3 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:45:21 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoWhile her parents are attending her baby cousin’s circumcision ceremony, the teenage narrator of Jonathan Papernick’s “Skin for Skin” invites an intriguing new boy from school over to her home. The narrator is not Jewish, as her parents are, but her views on religion and family begin to change as she contemplates sleeping with the boy, demanding of him an intriguing bargain.The Drum Literary MagazineWhile her parents are attending her baby cousin’s circumcision ceremony, the teenage narrator of Jonathan Papernick’s “Skin for Skin” invites an intriguing new boy from school over to her home. The narrator is not Jewish, as her parents are, but her views on religion and family begin to change as she contemplates sleeping with the boy, demanding of him an intriguing bargain. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Loving_the_Momster_sample.mp3 :37 In his essay “Loving the Momster,” Ethan Gilsdorf recounts his childhood after his mother’s 1997 death, specifically the childhood after his mother suffered an aneurism in 1978. Gilsdorf revisits his mother’s mercurial moods and changed attitude, and his own altered childhood, through emails from a childhood friend who only knew Gilsdorf’s mother after her aneurism. Despite the fragmented nature of his mother’s life, Gilsdorf is able to find and preserve a sense of her identity. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Loving_the_Momster_sample.mp3 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:59:08 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn his essay “Loving the Momster,” Ethan Gilsdorf recounts his childhood after his mother’s 1997 death, specifically the childhood after his mother suffered an aneurism in 1978. Gilsdorf revisits his mother’s mercurial moods and changed attitude, and his own altered childhood, through emails from a childhood friend who only knew Gilsdorf’s mother after her aneurism. Despite the fragmented nature of his mother’s life, Gilsdorf is able to find and preserve a sense of her identity.The Drum Literary MagazineIn his essay “Loving the Momster,” Ethan Gilsdorf recounts his childhood after his mother’s 1997 death, specifically the childhood after his mother suffered an aneurism in 1978. Gilsdorf revisits his mother’s mercurial moods and changed attitude, and his own altered childhood, through emails from a childhood friend who only knew Gilsdorf’s mother after her aneurism. Despite the fragmented nature of his mother’s life, Gilsdorf is able to find and preserve a sense of her identity. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Trick_sample.mp3 :33 A Halloween dinner with her estranged father and his new wife exposes tensions and fault lines in Claudia’s world. A single mother with a young son, she tries to preserve the spirit of trick or treat against her father’s wishes, until finally the stressful meal veers towards a new and alarming direction. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Trick_sample.mp3 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:50:59 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA Halloween dinner with her estranged father and his new wife exposes tensions and fault lines in Claudia’s world. A single mother with a young son, she tries to preserve the spirit of trick or treat against her father’s wishes, until finally the stressful meal veers towards a new and alarming direction.The Drum Literary MagazineA Halloween dinner with her estranged father and his new wife exposes tensions and fault lines in Claudia’s world. A single mother with a young son, she tries to preserve the spirit of trick or treat against her father’s wishes, until finally the stressful meal veers towards a new and alarming direction. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-This_Truth_I-squo-m_Telling_sample.mp3 :38 The narrator of Lauren Grodstein’s “This Truth I’m Telling” was a bartender in the World Trade Center. At a jobs convention for workers displaced after 9/11, Martin thinks about the life and the people that he has lost. He wonders which is truer: the optimistic exhortations of the jobs speaker, or the resignation he feels. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-This_Truth_I-squo-m_Telling_sample.mp3 Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:53:44 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe narrator of Lauren Grodstein’s “This Truth I’m Telling” was a bartender in the World Trade Center. At a jobs convention for workers displaced after 9/11, Martin thinks about the life and the people that he has lost. He wonders which is truer: the optimistic exhortations of the jobs speaker, or the resignation he feels.The Drum Literary MagazineThe narrator of Lauren Grodstein’s “This Truth I’m Telling” was a bartender in the World Trade Center. At a jobs convention for workers displaced after 9/11, Martin thinks about the life and the people that he has lost. He wonders which is truer: the optimistic exhortations of the jobs speaker, or the resignation he feels. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-excerpt_from_Sea_Escape_-oparen-Chapter_Two-cparen-.mp3 :44 In the second chapter of her novel Sea Escape, Lynne Griffin writes from the point of view of Laura’s mother, Helen. It is 1951 and Helen has just watched her boyfriend, Joe, depart for Samson Air Force Base. During his absence, she finds a new independence through work, despite her father’s wishes. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-excerpt_from_Sea_Escape_-oparen-Chapter_Two-cparen-.mp3 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:00:53 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn the second chapter of her novel Sea Escape, Lynne Griffin writes from the point of view of Laura’s mother, Helen. It is 1951 and Helen has just watched her boyfriend, Joe, depart for Samson Air Force Base. During his absence, she finds a new independence through work, despite her father’s wishes.The Drum Literary MagazineIn the second chapter of her novel Sea Escape, Lynne Griffin writes from the point of view of Laura’s mother, Helen. It is 1951 and Helen has just watched her boyfriend, Joe, depart for Samson Air Force Base. During his absence, she finds a new independence through work, despite her father’s wishes. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag1332-84.mp3 :35 Lynne Griffin reads from the first chapter of her novel Sea Escape. After working a 12 hour nursing shift, Laura takes her two young children to visit her mother on her 77th birthday. But while she prepares to bake a cake for the occasion, Laura receives a phone call that could alter the course of her life, of her mother’s life, and of their rocky relationship. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/drumlitmag1332-84.mp3 Mon, 31 May 2010 12:43:21 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoLynne Griffin reads from the first chapter of her novel Sea Escape. After working a 12 hour nursing shift, Laura takes her two young children to visit her mother on her 77th birthday. But while she prepares to bake a cake for the occasion, Laura receives a phone call that could alter the course of her life, of her mother’s life, and of their rocky relationship.The Drum Literary MagazineLynne Griffin reads from the first chapter of her novel Sea Escape. After working a 12 hour nursing shift, Laura takes her two young children to visit her mother on her 77th birthday. But while she prepares to bake a cake for the occasion, Laura receives a phone call that could alter the course of her life, of her mother’s life, and of their rocky relationship. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Our_Little_Bertha_sample.mp3 :36 Michelle Hoover’s essay “Our Litter Bertha” recounts her discovery of her great-grandmother's journal, the document which she later used to inspire her novel, The Quickening. Hoover ponders the stories of her Midwestern family found in diaries and letters. She contemplates her upbringing and the consequences of her relocation from Iowa to Boston. The essay is a vivid study of the connection between identity and place. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Our_Little_Bertha_sample.mp3 Mon, 31 May 2010 11:13:02 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoMichelle Hoover’s essay “Our Litter Bertha” recounts her discovery of her great-grandmother's journal, the document which she later used to inspire her novel, The Quickening. Hoover ponders the stories of her Midwestern family found in diaries and letters. She contemplates her upbringing and the consequences of her relocation from Iowa to Boston. The essay is a vivid study of the connection between identity and place.The Drum Literary MagazineMichelle Hoover’s essay “Our Litter Bertha” recounts her discovery of her great-grandmother's journal, the document which she later used to inspire her novel, The Quickening. Hoover ponders the stories of her Midwestern family found in diaries and letters. She contemplates her upbringing and the consequences of her relocation from Iowa to Boston. The essay is a vivid study of the connection between identity and place. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Macy_Is_The_Other_Woman_sample.mp3 :40 The narrator in Lynne Barrett’s story “Macy is the Other Woman,” is the other woman, conducting an affair with a softball teammate whose girlfriend she doesn’t want to hurt. Over a warm July 4th weekend in Washington, Macy comes to terms with the affair, pondering the complicated entanglements of infidelity and friendship. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Macy_Is_The_Other_Woman_sample.mp3 Mon, 31 May 2010 11:06:40 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe narrator in Lynne Barrett’s story “Macy is the Other Woman,” is the other woman, conducting an affair with a softball teammate whose girlfriend she doesn’t want to hurt. Over a warm July 4th weekend in Washington, Macy comes to terms with the affair, pondering the complicated entanglements of infidelity and friendship.The Drum Literary MagazineThe narrator in Lynne Barrett’s story “Macy is the Other Woman,” is the other woman, conducting an affair with a softball teammate whose girlfriend she doesn’t want to hurt. Over a warm July 4th weekend in Washington, Macy comes to terms with the affair, pondering the complicated entanglements of infidelity and friendship. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_Neighborhood_sample.mp3 :29 In Ben Percy’s “The Neighborhood,” economic stress leads suburbanites to rather sinister acts against one family unable to keep up appearances. The Petersens become the focus of neighborhood concern, and their house becomes the target of a destructive communal activity. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_Neighborhood_sample.mp3 Mon, 31 May 2010 11:03:01 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Ben Percy’s “The Neighborhood,” economic stress leads suburbanites to rather sinister acts against one family unable to keep up appearances. The Petersens become the focus of neighborhood concern, and their house becomes the target of a destructive communal activity.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Ben Percy’s “The Neighborhood,” economic stress leads suburbanites to rather sinister acts against one family unable to keep up appearances. The Petersens become the focus of neighborhood concern, and their house becomes the target of a destructive communal activity. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Fugueur_sample.mp3 :35 At the turn of the 19th century, Albert wakes to find himself penniless and paperless, with no memory of his travels and the time he has been walking. In this excerpt from her unpublished novel, Fugueur, Maud Casey writes about a man caught in a fugue state, lost in time and place as he walks through France from town to town. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Fugueur_sample.mp3 Mon, 31 May 2010 10:58:05 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAt the turn of the 19th century, Albert wakes to find himself penniless and paperless, with no memory of his travels and the time he has been walking. In this excerpt from her unpublished novel, Fugueur, Maud Casey writes about a man caught in a fugue state, lost in time and place as he walks through France from town to town.The Drum Literary MagazineAt the turn of the 19th century, Albert wakes to find himself penniless and paperless, with no memory of his travels and the time he has been walking. In this excerpt from her unpublished novel, Fugueur, Maud Casey writes about a man caught in a fugue state, lost in time and place as he walks through France from town to town. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/NathanPoole--RawMilkFever.mp3 2:37 Nathan Poole’s “Raw Milk Fever” begins at the turn of a young girl’s fever, brought on after she drank raw milk on a dare. Her brother narrates the piece, evoking the daze of heat and anxiety that lingers over this farm family during the girl’s illness. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/NathanPoole--RawMilkFever.mp3 Mon, 24 May 2010 09:21:33 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoNathan Poole’s “Raw Milk Fever” begins at the turn of a young girl’s fever, brought on after she drank raw milk on a dare. Her brother narrates the piece, evoking the daze of heat and anxiety that lingers over this farm family during the girl’s illness.The Drum Literary MagazineNathan Poole’s “Raw Milk Fever” begins at the turn of a young girl’s fever, brought on after she drank raw milk on a dare. Her brother narrates the piece, evoking the daze of heat and anxiety that lingers over this farm family during the girl’s illness. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-In_the_Nickel_of_Time_sample.mp3 :33 The narrator of Jason M. Rubin’s “In the Nickel of Time” works at a convenience story where the weight of a roll of nickels comes in handy for an act of late-night self-defense. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-In_the_Nickel_of_Time_sample.mp3 Mon, 24 May 2010 09:11:53 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe narrator of Jason M. Rubin’s “In the Nickel of Time” works at a convenience story where the weight of a roll of nickels comes in handy for an act of late-night self-defense.The Drum Literary MagazineThe narrator of Jason M. Rubin’s “In the Nickel of Time” works at a convenience story where the weight of a roll of nickels comes in handy for an act of late-night self-defense. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Watching_Her_sample.mp3 :31 A palace guardsman speaks for his battalion in Ellen Meeropol’s “Watching Her,” describing how the soldiers’ affection for a young noblewoman must give way to obedience during a civil war. Following orders, they must punish the woman’s allegiance to the rebel cause, and to her rebel lover. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Watching_Her_sample.mp3 Mon, 24 May 2010 09:03:32 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA palace guardsman speaks for his battalion in Ellen Meeropol’s “Watching Her,” describing how the soldiers’ affection for a young noblewoman must give way to obedience during a civil war. Following orders, they must punish the woman’s allegiance to the rebel cause, and to her rebel lover.The Drum Literary MagazineA palace guardsman speaks for his battalion in Ellen Meeropol’s “Watching Her,” describing how the soldiers’ affection for a young noblewoman must give way to obedience during a civil war. Following orders, they must punish the woman’s allegiance to the rebel cause, and to her rebel lover. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Gotta_Move_the_Cow_sample.mp3 :35 In “Gotta Move the Cow,” Deborah Blicher recounts her work as a patient registration receptionist in a remote African hospital. The essay excerpt paints a vivid picture of a rural community as western medicine tries to help a desperate mother and her sick son. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Gotta_Move_the_Cow_sample.mp3 Mon, 24 May 2010 08:55:03 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn “Gotta Move the Cow,” Deborah Blicher recounts her work as a patient registration receptionist in a remote African hospital. The essay excerpt paints a vivid picture of a rural community as western medicine tries to help a desperate mother and her sick son.The Drum Literary MagazineIn “Gotta Move the Cow,” Deborah Blicher recounts her work as a patient registration receptionist in a remote African hospital. The essay excerpt paints a vivid picture of a rural community as western medicine tries to help a desperate mother and her sick son. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_Girl_in_the_Red_Dress_sample.mp3 :35 In Grace Talusan’s “The Girl in the Red Dress,” Rodrigo sees the eponymous girl. But is it a ghost or a hallucination—or perhaps a sign of illness? During a visit to the doctor with his mother, Rodrigo tries to understand the intricacies of affection and intimacy and ponders what wealth means. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_Girl_in_the_Red_Dress_sample.mp3 Mon, 24 May 2010 08:47:51 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn Grace Talusan’s “The Girl in the Red Dress,” Rodrigo sees the eponymous girl. But is it a ghost or a hallucination—or perhaps a sign of illness? During a visit to the doctor with his mother, Rodrigo tries to understand the intricacies of affection and intimacy and ponders what wealth means.The Drum Literary MagazineIn Grace Talusan’s “The Girl in the Red Dress,” Rodrigo sees the eponymous girl. But is it a ghost or a hallucination—or perhaps a sign of illness? During a visit to the doctor with his mother, Rodrigo tries to understand the intricacies of affection and intimacy and ponders what wealth means. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Signs_of_Life_sample.mp3 :33 The narrator in Laura Salamy’s story, “Signs of Life,” contemplates her relationship with her significant other, Charlie, while vacationing in Jamaica. While eating local cuisine, relaxing in the hotel, and taking walks on the beach, the narrator contemplates the changes in her relationship, including one change she is not sure she can forgive or forget. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Signs_of_Life_sample.mp3 Mon, 17 May 2010 08:46:57 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoThe narrator in Laura Salamy’s story, “Signs of Life,” contemplates her relationship with her significant other, Charlie, while vacationing in Jamaica. While eating local cuisine, relaxing in the hotel, and taking walks on the beach, the narrator contemplates the changes in her relationship, including one change she is not sure she can forgive or forget.The Drum Literary MagazineThe narrator in Laura Salamy’s story, “Signs of Life,” contemplates her relationship with her significant other, Charlie, while vacationing in Jamaica. While eating local cuisine, relaxing in the hotel, and taking walks on the beach, the narrator contemplates the changes in her relationship, including one change she is not sure she can forgive or forget. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_Murderer-squo-s_Daughters_excerpt_sample.mp3 :32 A grandmother’s funeral is the setting for this excerpt from Randy Susan Meyers’ novel The Murderer’s Daughters. Sisters Lulu and Merry are approached by their father, released for the event from prison where he serves time for killing their mother. Lulu narrates the scene, mingling adolescent bitterness with sensitivity to her sister’s needs and her relatives’ scorn. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_Murderer-squo-s_Daughters_excerpt_sample.mp3 Mon, 10 May 2010 07:05:25 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoA grandmother’s funeral is the setting for this excerpt from Randy Susan Meyers’ novel The Murderer’s Daughters. Sisters Lulu and Merry are approached by their father, released for the event from prison where he serves time for killing their mother. Lulu narrates the scene, mingling adolescent bitterness with sensitivity to her sister’s needs and her relatives’ scorn.The Drum Literary MagazineA grandmother’s funeral is the setting for this excerpt from Randy Susan Meyers’ novel The Murderer’s Daughters. Sisters Lulu and Merry are approached by their father, released for the event from prison where he serves time for killing their mother. Lulu narrates the scene, mingling adolescent bitterness with sensitivity to her sister’s needs and her relatives’ scorn. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Three_Women_Wishing_for_a_Boy_sample.mp3 :32 Aimee Loiselle’s“3 Women Wishing for a Boy” follows three generations of young women hoping to win their mother’s love while they respond to pregnancy, love, and sometimes both at once. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Three_Women_Wishing_for_a_Boy_sample.mp3 Mon, 03 May 2010 08:47:01 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoAimee Loiselle’s“3 Women Wishing for a Boy” follows three generations of young women hoping to win their mother’s love while they respond to pregnancy, love, and sometimes both at once.The Drum Literary MagazineAimee Loiselle’s“3 Women Wishing for a Boy” follows three generations of young women hoping to win their mother’s love while they respond to pregnancy, love, and sometimes both at once. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/BretAnthonyJohnston--Caiman.mp3 8:28 In “Caiman,” Bret Anthony Johnston’s narrator details a parent’s fear over a young girl’s abduction from a Texas town. Johnston story examines the nature of evil, and explores the limits of our ability to protect against it. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/BretAnthonyJohnston--Caiman.mp3 Sat, 01 May 2010 00:00:00 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoIn “Caiman,” Bret Anthony Johnston’s narrator details a parent’s fear over a young girl’s abduction from a Texas town. Johnston story examines the nature of evil, and explores the limits of our ability to protect against it.The Drum Literary MagazineIn “Caiman,” Bret Anthony Johnston’s narrator details a parent’s fear over a young girl’s abduction from a Texas town. Johnston story examines the nature of evil, and explores the limits of our ability to protect against it. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-How_Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning_Saved_My_Life_excerpt_sample.mp3 :35 https://www.drumlitmag.com/index.php?page=bio&display=161The Café Pamplona in Harvard Square is the setting for a showdown between Abby and her ex-boyfriend Clive. In this excerpt from Mameve Medwed’s novel How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life, Clive is intent on making amends for various wrongs in his life—and Abby must endure his copious amending.about the author https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-How_Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning_Saved_My_Life_excerpt_sample.mp3 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:24:07 EDT The Drum Literary Magazinenohttps://www.drumlitmag.com/index.php?page=bio&display=161The Café Pamplona in Harvard Square is the setting for a showdown between Abby and her ex-boyfriend Clive. In this excerpt from Mameve Medwed’s novel How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life, Clive is intent on making amends for various wrongs in his life—and Abby must endure his copious amending.about the authorThe Drum Literary Magazinehttps://www.drumlitmag.com/index.php?page=bio&display=161The Café Pamplona in Harvard Square is the setting for a showdown between Abby and her ex-boyfriend Clive. In this excerpt from Mameve Medwed’s novel How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life, Clive is intent on making amends for various wrongs in his life—and Abby must endure his copious amending.about the author https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_Stormchasers_excerpt_sample.mp3 :35 https://www.drumlitmag.com/index.php?page=bio&display=162In Jenna Blum’s excerpt from her second novel Stormchasers, Karena searches through storm-ravaged terrain for the twin brother she hasn’t seen in twenty years. She knows Charles will risk his life to seek the storm, drawn by its danger and its energy.about the author https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-The_Stormchasers_excerpt_sample.mp3 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:24:44 EDT The Drum Literary Magazinenohttps://www.drumlitmag.com/index.php?page=bio&display=162In Jenna Blum’s excerpt from her second novel Stormchasers, Karena searches through storm-ravaged terrain for the twin brother she hasn’t seen in twenty years. She knows Charles will risk his life to seek the storm, drawn by its danger and its energy.about the authorThe Drum Literary Magazinehttps://www.drumlitmag.com/index.php?page=bio&display=162In Jenna Blum’s excerpt from her second novel Stormchasers, Karena searches through storm-ravaged terrain for the twin brother she hasn’t seen in twenty years. She knows Charles will risk his life to seek the storm, drawn by its danger and its energy.about the author https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Covenant_sample.mp3 :32 Elinor Teele’s “Covenant” offers a modern retelling of the story of Noah’s Ark. Teele’s Noah packs his family’s pets, his wife, and their three grown children into a dingy scallop boat, along with a few beers. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Covenant_sample.mp3 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:10:23 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoElinor Teele’s “Covenant” offers a modern retelling of the story of Noah’s Ark. Teele’s Noah packs his family’s pets, his wife, and their three grown children into a dingy scallop boat, along with a few beers.The Drum Literary MagazineElinor Teele’s “Covenant” offers a modern retelling of the story of Noah’s Ark. Teele’s Noah packs his family’s pets, his wife, and their three grown children into a dingy scallop boat, along with a few beers. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Kennebec_sample.mp3 :34 EB Moore’s “Kennebec” finds its protagonist struggling to come to terms with the drowning of his young stepson. As Carl mourns by the river that has taken the boy’s body, he wrestles with his guilt and with his first attempts to regain a normal life. https://drumlitmag.com/mp3s/sounds-Kennebec_sample.mp3 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:47:45 EDT The Drum Literary MagazinenoEB Moore’s “Kennebec” finds its protagonist struggling to come to terms with the drowning of his young stepson. As Carl mourns by the river that has taken the boy’s body, he wrestles with his guilt and with his first attempts to regain a normal life.The Drum Literary MagazineEB Moore’s “Kennebec” finds its protagonist struggling to come to terms with the drowning of his young stepson. As Carl mourns by the river that has taken the boy’s body, he wrestles with his guilt and with his first attempts to regain a normal life.