{"id":21772,"date":"2017-06-19T10:13:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T14:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=21772"},"modified":"2017-07-12T11:40:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T15:40:48","slug":"william-trevor-the-piano-teachers-pupil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2017\/06\/19\/william-trevor-the-piano-teachers-pupil\/","title":{"rendered":"William Trevor: “The Piano Teacher’s Pupil”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“The Piano Teacher’s Pupil”<\/strong><\/span>
\nby William Trevor
\nfrom the June 26, 2017 issue of The New Yorker<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>[fusion_dropcap boxed=”no” boxed_radius=”” class=”” id=”” color=”#003366″]W[\/fusion_dropcap]illiam Trevor died last November at the age of 88 (see my brief thoughts on his death here<\/a>). Ever since The New Yorker published his wonderful “The Women” in early 2013 (our lengthy thread on that story here<\/a>), I’d been hoping against hope that we’d get at least one more story from him, and every week I’d watch the New Yorker’s twitter feed just hoping they would say that the next story was from William Trevor. My hope was dim, and of course when he died I gave it up entirely. But here we are! I even stayed up well past my bed time, refreshing the New Yorker website to get the story and post here as soon as possible. Usually the new magazine and its contents are up at midnight in New York. For whatever reason, that didn’t happen this time, and I eventually had to go to bed. So, I haven’t read the story yet, but I’ve printed it and am off to work with it in my bag.<\/p>\n

I’m not yet sure about when this was written (see my update just below<\/strong> — The New Yorker<\/em> has given some details; see my update below the update<\/strong> — a commenter below has had this story since 2001!). I have a list of what I think are all of Trevor’s works, and this is not on it, so I believe it has never been seen before. And if it is new, how long ago did Trevor write it, or stop writing it? Did he finish it to his satisfaction? Is there an editorial reason we aren’t seeing it until several months after his death? I’d like to know the answers if anyone has any insight.<\/p>\n

I love Trevor’s work. It has changed me for the better. I cannot guarantee that will happen to everyone who encounters him, but I’d still be willing to recommend his work to you if you haven’t read him yet.<\/p>\n

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Uupdate 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

I reached out to The New Yorker via Twitter and they provided a great response:<\/p>\n

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@mookse<\/a> It’s one of a few unpublished stories he left on his desk. Perhaps he wanted to go back to it; no one knows. It felt complete to us!<\/p>\n

\u2014 New Yorker Fiction (@NYerFiction) June 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n