The William Trevor Reader: “A Choice of Butchers”
When I began this project, I was both attracted to and concerned about ’s seeming irrelevance to modern literature. As I mentioned in the introduction, an undeniably appealing aspect of is how absolutely unconnected it is to what is being written and discussed in the 21st century. Because I spend a fair amount of my time on literary Twitter, I am buffeted by daily storms of taste and outrage, and there is something deeply soothing about spending offline time with someone utterly. The third-person POV, the elderly people, the largely apolitical concerns, the damp fustiness: I found these irrelevancies an enticement.
