![More Real, than Magical](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/gabo-470x140.jpg)
#94616965 / gettyimages.com The Nobel Prize winning Colombian writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez passed away on 17th April, 2014. Through his One Hundred Years of Solitude,…
![Updike & Down Gorge](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/rembrandt-470x140.jpg)
Let’s face it, we love this materialism we’re wrapped up into: the word has given ‘imitation’ a new meaning, allowing it to acquire additional shades…
![Nothing is Ever Really Lost: Time and Memory in Eudora Welty’s “Music From Spain”](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/eudora-470x140.jpg)
Eudora Welty’s life and work share a fascination with memory and time. “Of course the greatest confluence of all,” Welty writes in her memoir One…
![Movie Money](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/moviemoney-470x140.jpg)
Aunt Gertrude had had no education—had been, due to the poverty and ignorance of her family, virtually a waif—but possessed noticeable innate intelligence. She kept…
![Waiting by the Door](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/waitingbydoor-470x140.jpg)
When Roma first walked to the door, its face looked grim and unyielding. Despite the peeling green paint, it stood guard over the old house…
![The Golden Egg](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/goldeneggmaster-470x140.jpg)
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 2002 She was always suspicious of the mysterious chest. He never let her see what was inside. She always suspected, it was…
![Burial](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/burial-470x140.jpg)
On a sun drenched Boston day my parents died in a car crash. A driver hopped up on crack and alcohol, was texting and driving,…
![Your Cracked Mug Eating Glue](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/brunero-470x140.jpg)
I’m down there, sexy as a pear,
Grasping the stems of my ankles,
When signs of war
Static from your potato radio.
![First Date](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
The bar is dim and smells of fried food. Neon lights glow red, green and blue on the walls. Incandescent lamps burn dull yellow on…
![Padre](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/themes/oxygen/images/archive-thumbnail-placeholder.gif)
Words rolled forth like the splendid carpet he walked on.
Citizens gazed ahead
Their hearts twist,
Tortured to not break the spell
![How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy](https://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.