{"id":4982,"date":"2020-03-06T20:55:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T20:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/bookclub\/cgi-bin\/wordpress\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2020-03-14T23:18:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T23:18:33","slug":"william-kennedys-billy-phelans-greatest-game-on-april-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=4982","title":{"rendered":"CANCELLED: William Kennedy&#8217;s &#8220;Billy Phelan&#8217;s Greatest Game&#8221; on April 7!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This event has been CANCELLED for April 7, due to concerns about COVID-19 . Please check this website for further updates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/phelan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4990\" title=\"phelan\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/phelan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"499\" \/><\/a>Please join us at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 7, at Encina Hall&#8217;s Bechtel Conference Center for the \u201cAnother Look\u201d book club discussion of <\/span><strong>William Kennedy<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">&#8216;s <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: 300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Billy-Phelans-Greatest-William-Kennedy\/dp\/0140063404\"><em>Billy Phelan&#8217;s Greatest Game,<\/em><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> the Pulitzer prizewinning novelist&#8217;s 1978 novel about a pool hustler and poker player during the 1930s. Kennedy has been called the \u201cBard of Albany,\u201d and this book belongs to Kennedy&#8217;s celebrated Albany sequence of novels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The discussion will be lead by National Medal of Arts winner <strong>Tobias Wolff<\/strong>, with panelists <strong>Carol Edgarian<\/strong>, novelist and founding editor of <em>Narrative Magazine<\/em>; <strong>Alex Woloch<\/strong>, Stanford&#8217;s Richard W. Lyman Professor of the Humanities; and<strong> Vendela Vida<\/strong>, a novelist and an editor at <em>The Believer<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you are aware that Stanford Environmental Health &amp; Safety has cancelled or postponed some events because of the COVID-19 conditions. We&#8217;ll let you know should there be any changes to our plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Bechtel Conference Center for the \u201cAnother &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=4982\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}