![Backyard Film Festival](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/backyardfilmfestival-470x140.jpg)
When Fred Schneider turned sixty, he wanted to mark the occasion. A tall, thin man with reddish blond hair, he describes the feeling as a…
![Meeting Bhimsen Joshi](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bhimsenjoshi-470x140.jpg)
This article has a long, varied history. It began life as an e-mail to a friend. Then, at his suggestion, I posted it to RMIC….
![Paramour](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ladyagnew-470x140.jpg)
How sometimes, we are tied down by the Normal; we don’t want to realize all of our dreams. Here she was, compromising all her dreams…
![Khublei Shibun](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/khublei-470x140.jpg)
It was a late September evening when the sun came out after a 2 hour long shower. Cold water running through the streets drench my…
![Pale-hued Existentialism](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/georgeparacka-470x140.jpg)
Another loveless year is past. I am growing old now. Twenty six, at some impressionable age long ago seemed way too old for anymore fun…
![After She Was Gone](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/susmitabhattacharya-470x140.jpg)
The phone rang. Papa was in his usual place in front of the telly, watching Call My Bluff, and muttering why Mummy wasn’t home yet….
![OREGON COAST: THE SEARCH FOR ORDER IN SEPARATE THINGS](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/jeanberrett-470x140.jpg)
Umbrellas and pity passed me by
as water from heaven
fell onto pop cans and whiskey bottles
thrown on the grass and sidewalk.
![THE HOUSE THAT LOTA DE MACEDO SOARES BUILT IN SAMAMBAIA](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/edmiller-470x140.jpg)
When the cascade was revealed
its babble was replaced by
the allegations of cotinga birds
and the pleas of tamarin monkeys.
![Shiva Bhairava](https://www.tbr-olderissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shiva-470x140.jpg)
Sandalwood statue,
you’ve fed yourself to River
Karnali; currents
gnawed everything you are not.
![Symbols And Signs by Vladimir Nabokov](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.