Issue 4. September 2010
Drum Archives: Now Available Through Audible
While everything on The Drum is free to download or listen to on the site, our older material will eventually go into our archives, which you can find on Audible.com. Click here to see our materials on Audible--so far, our first six months' worth of audio. You can hear a brief sample of each piece on our site by clicking its play button.
more for A Yiddish Vocabulary
downloadSometimes 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. (:37)
A Yiddish Vocabulary
downloadA 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. (:32)
The Good Wife
downloadSandra 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. (:31)
Burn
downloadIn 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. (:36)
Heeding Doctor Eisner
downloadIn 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. (:36)
Twenty Five
downloadPennsylvania writer Jamye Shelleby's short story "Twenty Five" contemplates the metaphysics of loss through a brother-sister relationship remembered through markers in time. (:35)
Drowning
downloadAs 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". (:34)
My Smelling Mouth Problem
downloadA. 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. (:38)
