If you have been meaning to read Leslie Johnson’s “Other Lives,” from the Spring 2011 issue, but have for several months now had your efforts foiled by a series of eyeglasses-related accidents, each one more tragic than the last, hang up on your emergency optometrist: the very first fiction episode of “Selections from Colorado Review” is here, and it features that very story read by that very author!

You can download the podcast directly by clicking on this link, but clicking on a link will only feed a person for a day. Teach your computer to download “Selections from Colorado Review” for you once a month, by adding our RSS feed to your podcast software of choice, and you will feed a person for life.