This event has been CANCELLED for April 7, due to concerns about COVID-19 . Please check this website for further updates.

Please join us at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, at Encina Hall’s Bechtel Conference Center for the “Another Look” book club discussion of William Kennedy‘s Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, the Pulitzer prizewinning novelist’s 1978 novel about a pool hustler and poker player during the 1930s. Kennedy has been called the “Bard of Albany,” and this book belongs to Kennedy’s celebrated Albany sequence of novels.

The discussion will be lead by National Medal of Arts winner Tobias Wolff, with panelists Carol Edgarian, novelist and founding editor of Narrative Magazine; Alex Woloch, Stanford’s Richard W. Lyman Professor of the Humanities; and Vendela Vida, a novelist and an editor at The Believer magazine.

Many of you are aware that Stanford Environmental Health & Safety has cancelled or postponed some events because of the COVID-19 conditions. We’ll let you know should there be any changes to our plans.