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Crossing the Line: A Reading Co-Sponsored by The Drum Literary Magazine and the Boston Book Festival

Join us for tales of law-breaking, rule-bending, and genre-busting. The event will feature bestselling/award-winning authors Matt Bell, Jenna Blum, Christopher Castellani, and Marie Myung-Ok Lee. more »

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 »

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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 501(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 34. March 2013

LISA DUFFY What Matters
Lisa Duffy's "What Matters" explores our notions of exactly that in the telling and remembering of the events surrounding the brief more »

play Issue 33. February 2013

PAGAN KENNEDY How to Get High On Compost
New York Times columnist Pagan Kennedy takes a whiff of her backyard compost pile and examines the science of terroir. more »

play Issue 33. February 2013

VIJEE VENKATRAMAN Improbable Cargo
"Improbable Cargo" follows the "frozen-water trade" connecting India and the northeastern United States--from a personal perspective. more »

play Issue 33. February 2013

JACKSON CULPEPPER The Last Thing To Go
A violent flood provides the backdrop for the tentative relationship developing in Jackson Culpepper's "The Last Thing To Go." 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 »