“The past is just a story that we keep on telling ourselves in different ways, in different renditions.” Read an interview with Kevin Barry, whose short story “The Pub with No Beer” appears in this week’s issue.
,” is set in a pub, in the West of Ireland, that’s been shuttered by the pandemic. Was this a story that you started writing under lockdown?
In a way, this story is in direct conversation with previous stories I’ve written. It is not the first time that my fiction has stepped across the threshold of an Irish pub. The chorus of voices around a bar in the West of Ireland is one that I can generally tune in to at will. In fact, because I am terrified of any sense of ease or facility coming into my writing practice, I’ve long since vowed that there will be no more pub stories.
I certainly felt a sense of deep foreboding when he showed up. That coded knock on the door was an astonishment to me when I was writing the story. I looked over my shoulder with a face on me like a frightened little cat. I didn’t know who he was or what he was up to, or whether he was even real at all or just a figment of my imagination.
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