It was a damp Thursday afternoon when Lena, a postgraduate student of mid-century literature, realized her research had hit a wall. Her thesis focused on the quiet catastrophes in the short stories of William Trevor, the Irish master of the ordinary doomed. She had a stack of critical essays, a dog-eared copy of The Collected Stories , but what she desperately needed was the 1983 Paris Review interview—specifically, the out-of-print PDF that existed only in whispers on academic forums.

• The Story of Lucy Gault
• Felicia’s Journey
• Cheating at Canasta (Story collection)
• Last Stories (Published posthumously in 2018)