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LOUNGE LIT: Transgressions May 31

Take a walk on the wild side. Sounds like Lou Reed knew about our fourth Lounge Lit event when he wrote those lyrics. Join local writers Dawn Tripp, Chris Abouzeid, Chris Castellani, Holly LeCraw, Ethan more »

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Zip-Code Stories

The Drum Literary Magazine and WBUR's Radio Boston are joining forces to bring you Zip-Code Stories, where listeners share their own stories about the neighborhoods that make Greater Boston unique. more »

About The Drum

You don't read The Drum. You listen to it. The Drum Literary Magazine publishes short fiction, essays, novel excerpts, and interviews exclusively in audio form. The Drum is a non-profict 510(c) (3) organization, and your source for Literature Out Loud. more »

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Susan Orlean, Jenna Blum, Paul Harding, Jennifer Haigh, Askold Melnyczuk, Lynne Griffin, Ethan Gilsdorf, Emma Forrest, Roland Merullo, Daphne Kalotay more »

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LATEST AUDIO STORIES FROM THE DRUM

play Issue 24. May 2012

JEAN RYAN Migration
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. more »

play Issue 24. May 2012

COLETTE SARTOR Daredevil
In Colette Sartor's "Daredevil," a little girl becomes the catalyst for unsettling and then tragic events in the lives more »

play Issue 23. April 2012

DANIEL DAVIS West Texas Tears
Daniel Davis brings a modern sensibility to the cowboys-and-Indians tale in "West Texas Tears". In his short story, two lawmen more »

play Issue 23. April 2012

JYOTSNA SREENIVASAN Home
Jyotsna Sreenivasan's "Home" explores exactly the nature of that concept for young Amiya as she returns to 1970s Ohio more »

ZIP-CODE STORIES
Click here for all our Zip-Code Stories. Got 500 words about your zip code? Send them in. Zip-Code Stories is The Drum's project with WBUR's Radio Boston, inviting listeners and Drum fans to tell their fiction or non-fiction stories set in and around Greater Boston. more »