![Revisiting Premier's Mr. Shanbhag](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/TSS-470x140.jpg)
Arvind Radhakrishnan & Suhail Rasheed catches up with T S Shanbhag, the owner of Premier Book Shop, for a candid chat
![Of Books and the Reading Life – One Bangalorean’s Personal Journey](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/books-470x140.jpg)
Cheriyan Alexander’s recollection from a personal journey of reading and collecting books
![Batik Maker](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/BatikMaker-470x140.jpg)
Fehmida Zakeer reads the poem Batik Maker by Virginia Moreno, a celebrated writer from Philippines
![Through the Motions](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/motions-470x140.jpg)
Sometimes, while grabbing coffee or during her lunch break, Kate would twist her wedding ring off and sit at a table by the door, watching…
![Caesar and His People](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/caesar-470x140.jpg)
The phone rings like it always does and Kate answers it like she always does. She turns her freckled face in my direction and glances…
![Screaming for Colin Blake](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/colinblake-470x140.jpg)
First was the light. It grew from beneath the eave of the porch as the fluorescents flashed to life. She waved the moths away as…
![The Mental Migration & I Am Awake](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/huffman-470x140.jpg)
I am forced to catalog these collisions. Exquisite
explosions of potential flow through me…
![Blank Page with Black Muse](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
She lies upon the sheets
and bifurcates the whiteness
with the sheer black of her body
the heaving of her body
![Playing Well](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Now how smooth is that, I say,
wrapping my hands around her,
placing the apron gently over
her head as she chops onions
![Nobel Lecture by Saul Bellow](http://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/readingroom-470x140.jpg)
Every month, The Reading Room showcases a short story, or excerpts of a book, from some of the greatest writers the world has ever seen.