More Real, than Magical

More Real, than Magical

#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,…

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Updike & Down Gorge

Updike & Down Gorge

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…

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Nothing is Ever Really Lost: Time and Memory in Eudora Welty’s “Music From Spain”

Nothing is Ever Really Lost

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…

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Movie Money

Movie Money

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…

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Waiting by the Door

Waiting by the Door

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…

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The Golden Egg

The Golden Egg

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…

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Burial

Burial

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,…

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Your Cracked Mug Eating Glue

Your Cracked Mug Eating Glue

I’m down there, sexy as a pear,
Grasping the stems of my ankles,
When signs of war
Static from your potato radio.

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First Date

First Date

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…

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Padre

Padre

Words rolled forth like the splendid carpet he walked on.
Citizens gazed ahead
Their hearts twist,
Tortured to not break the spell

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How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy

How Much Land Does a Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy

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.

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Khushwant Singh: An Extraordinary Life

An Extraordinary Life

Soumitra Dasgupta pays tribute to Khushwant Singh

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What Debussy Wrote for the Guitar

What Debussy Wrote for the Guitar

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/43782479″ params=”auto_play=true&hide_related=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Peyton recognized it the first time he heard Tito Salinas play the pieces. When the performance ended, he…

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Raiza

Raiza

Elaine Rosenberg Miller’s true account of her encounter with a Holocaust survivor

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Unfinished Swansong

Unfinished Swansong

Undraped feminine figure; that is, even if infatuated with brevity, David still insists on putting it in three other words: the female nude. Yes, the…

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