The Missouri Review Audio Issues

Since 2007, The Missouri Review has been working on an ambitious project to record all of our new issues as audiobooks. We're pleased to make available to you our first complete audio issue as a free sample. As we finish producing our more recent issues, we'll be making those issues available for purchase through a handful of different means.

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Free Audio Issue: 30.4 (Winter 2007)

• Foreword

  • Speer Morgan: Fractured [Download .mp3 (8.4 mb)]

• Fiction

  • Robyn L. Murphy: Necessary Parts [Download .mp3 (27.6 mb)]
  • Dennis McFadden: The Three-Sided Penny [Download .mp3 (38.8 mb)]
  • L.E. Miller: Kind [Download .mp3 (38.1 mb)]

• Poetry

  • Preston Mark Stone: Poetry Feature [Download .mp3 (11.3 mb)]
  • Stephen O'Connor: Poetry Feature [Download .mp3 (11.6 mb)]
  • Paul Guest: My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge [Download .mp3 (7.6 mb)]

• Interview

  • Lore Segal & Mary L. Tabor: A Conversation with Lore Segal [Download .mp3 (19.6 mb)]

• Essay

  • Bart Skarzynski: Vien a ca, Beda [Download .mp3 (26.9 mb)]
  • Elaine Neil Orr: My Life with Hair [Download .mp3 (31.2 mb)]

• Found Text

  • Sir Laurence Olivier: Letters to Young Actors [Download .mp3 (37.5)]

• Review

  • Lisa Hoashi: Fluency in Form: A Survey of the Graphic Memoir [Download .mp3 (21.9 mb)]