Choice Magazine Listening

04/10/2026

Our new issue, #354, is available now! This Spring, CML is bringing you mates meandering on the Mississippi, Buddy Guy and the blues, super-centenarians, Uzbek art, and one sharp safari suit. Want to know more? Come on in, and welcome to Choice Magazine Listening!

We gather the very best in magazine and literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and essays, recorded as a talking book and available for free for those with print disabilities. You can learn more about the stories included in this issue by reading our newsletter, along with CML updates and recommendations for further reading by clicking here: bit.ly/CML-354

You can also sign up to receive our newsletter, download back issues of CML, and be notified when new issues are ready for download by visiting our website: www.choicemagazinelistening.org

Choice Magazine Listening has long provided accessible audio publications for visually impaired and physically disabled adults, helping more people enjoy news and stories. As digital services expand globally, Australians also explore different forms of online entertainment, including instant withdra...

03/12/2026

So excited to share that Blind Adventures With Ron Walsh and Friends is LIVE! Choice Magazine Listening is a proud sponsor of this program, which shows the joys of outdoor recreation and the comradery built through shared experience. You can check out the first episode here, please share far and wide! https://www.pbs.org/show/blind-adventures-with-ron-walsh-and-friends/

“Life is not a problem to be solved, it’s an adventure to be lived" - Ron Walsh

Ron Walsh, a completely blind wilderness adventurer, leads a team co-hosted by international travel writer, guide and blogger Ashlyn George, into the jaws of adventure in the new travel and adventure series Blind Adventures With Ron Walsh and Friends – Premiering Wednesdays at 7:30 pm, Starting March 11 on WPBS and on the free PBS app! https://www.wpbstv.org/new-series-blind-adventures-with-ron-walsh-and-friends-premieres-on-wpbs-in-march-2026/

01/05/2026

It's a new year, and our new Winter issue, #353, is available now!

We gather the very best in magazine and literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and essays, recorded as a talking book and available for free for those with print disabilities.

You can read more about the stories included in this issue in our newsletter, along with CML news and recommendations for further reading: bit.ly/CML-353

You can also sign up to receive our newsletter, download back issues of CML, and be notified when new issues are ready for download by visiting our website: www.choicemagazinelistening.org

10/06/2025

Calling all subscribers—our Fall issue, #352, is available now! We gather the very best in magazine and literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and essays, recorded as a talking book and available for free for those with print disabilities.

You can read more about the stories included in this issue in our newsletter, along with CML news and recommendations for further reading: bit.ly/CML-352

You can also sign up to receive our newsletter, download back issues of CML, and be notified when new issues are ready for download by visiting our website: www.choicemagazinelistening.org

07/02/2025

Beat the heat with Choice Magazine Listening—our Summer issue, #351, is available now! We gather the very best in magazine and literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and essays, recorded as a talking book and available for free for those with print disabilities.

You can read more about the stories included in this issue in our newsletter, along with CML news and recommendations for further reading: bit.ly/CML-351

You can also sign up to receive our newsletter, download back issues of CML, and be notified when new issues are ready for download by visiting our website! www.choicemagazinelistening.org

04/01/2025

Our latest issue is LIVE!

…and we’re not April Fooling. 😄

Check out Choice Magazine Listening #350, Spring 2025! We gather the very best in magazine and literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and essays, recorded as a talking book and available for free for those with print disabilities: bit.ly/CML-350

You can also sign up to receive our newsletter, download back issues of CML, and be notified when new issues are ready for download by visiting our website!

10/13/2023

Our latest issue is LIVE!

Check out Choice Magazine Listening #344, Fall 2023 for the best in magazine and literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and essays, recorded as a talking book and available for free for those with print disabilities: bit.ly/CML-344

You can also sign up to receive our newsletter, download back issues of CML, and be notified when new issues are ready for download by visiting our website: choicemagazinelistening.org

It's Time to DOWNLOAD Our Fall Issue BROWSE the Table of Contents SHARE Your Thoughts CML News Since COVID changed our workday from office to home...

10/04/2023

A better photo of some of our selections from The Gettysburg Review over the years!

06/27/2023

We had a wonderful morning attending the IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions conference with World Blind Union, Vision Australia, ONCE, European Blind Union, EIFL and many more, celebrating ten years since the June 27, 2013 adoption of the .

Marrakesh has been a tremendous step forward in ending the global accessible book famine for people with blindness and visual impairments, resulting in more than 840,000 accessible titles, including 281,000 in English, 111,000 in French, and 55,000 in Spanish. The fight for equal access continues today, as the technical details of country-by-country implementation are worked out by partner organizations and libraries.

You can read more about the "Miracle of Marrakesh" and the progress achieved in implementing it worldwide at the link below: https://www.eifl.net/blogs/celebrating-10-years-marrakesh-treaty

06/16/2023

A thrilling read from Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library's Chancey Fleet on bringing to patrons in NYC and beyond:

"Although alt text—the description of images online—allows content authors to describe important visuals, the adage that 'a picture is worth a thousand words' falls flat when only words are available. It’s important to experience a stock chart, a circuit diagram, or a map as intended—that is to say, as an image. Textual descriptions of items like these, if they contain all the information in the original image, are painfully verbose and frequently fail to deliver pertinent insights with the precision of an image[...] The power of images to convey information precisely and concisely through spatial representation, however, isn’t inherently visual at all. For blind readers, learners, and creators, tactile graphics—images rendered legible by touch—open up the world of spatial communication."

Access to rich imagery shouldn’t be something that blind or low-vision people have to do without. These projects are helping.

05/22/2023

Two exciting announcements this month in the world of reading accessibility! First, The New York Times introduced a new app, NYT Audio, that presents subscribers with a selection of the paper's daily reporting, culture writing, and feature-length magazine articles from an array of sources. We applaud the Times for their initiative and hope you'll check it out for yourself: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/podcasts/audio-app-journalism-storytelling.html

Secondly, we want to give British Vogue their flowers to celebrate the occasion of their first-ever full Braille + audio issue. Featuring "brilliant, beautiful and impactful Disabled talents from across fashion, sport, the arts and activism," the articles are available in audio, print-at-home Braille, or, in the UK, via Braille by mail. You can read the announcement, and access the audio version here: https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/may-2023-issue-audio-braille

New York Times Audio provides news, depth and serendipity.