After Rain by William Trevor

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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William Trevor was born in Ireland in 1928. When he was 26, he moved to England, where for the next 62 years he quietly became one of the most celebrated writers in the English-speaking world. In today's History of Literature episode, Jacke takes a look at one of his greatest short stories, "After Rain." Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:11.0	Welcome to The History of Literature. Hello everyone here we go how are? I hope you are all well, pandemic, quarantine, a lost
0:38.5	spring for much of the world. We are staying at home, taking care of ourselves, and worrying.
0:44.4	Some of us get sick.
0:45.6	Some of us have loved ones who have gotten sick.
0:48.3	Some of us are worried every minute
0:50.8	about our frontline friends and families, the heroes who are out there fighting for health,
0:56.6	for our loved ones, and for us. They are the heroes. We find heroes even in a tragic crisis like this one. Heroes like
1:04.6	Jose Andres, the chef who feeds the hungriest in disaster after disaster. Heroes
1:10.6	like all the doctors and nurses and grocery store workers and emergency room technicians and ambulance drivers who are out there still working still helping.
1:20.0	We thank them all.
1:22.0	Things are bad here in the United States as I'm recording this.
1:25.0	There are a few green shoots elsewhere in the world.
1:28.0	Some signs that are returned to normalcy is not an impossibility,
1:32.0	but in some ways I don't know what. is not the history of literature and so we turn to books and literature as we always do
1:44.6	twice a week during this crisis so far anyway to share some humanity around the
1:50.7	world this week we have the great William Trevor. My God what a writer he was just a writer a pure writer.
1:59.0	One of the purest. If you had some kind of test you could do on writers, a chemical test,
2:05.0	I told you I've been watching Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, right?
2:08.8	Every few episodes someone tests the meth in Breaking Bad and Walter White's is always the best.
2:15.6	Some hack cooking in his kitchen might make a meth that's 60% pure maybe maybe
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