Glenway Wescott's "The Pilgrim Hawk" w/Robert Harrison, Steve Wasserman, Tobias Wolff, Cynthia Haven

Glenway Wescott’s 1940 novella, “The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story,” traces a single afternoon in a French country house during the 1920s. Alwyn Tower, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside Paris when a well-heeled Irish couple drops in - with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic presence. Lunch is prepared, drink flows, and the story that unfolds is both harrowing and farcical.
Stanford’s Prof. Robert Harrison, an acclaimed author and director of Another Look, led the discussion, joined by the eminent novelist Tobias Wolff, founding director of Another Look and a National Medal of Arts winner, and Steve Wasserman, publisher of Berkeley's Heyday Books and former book editor for the "Los Angeles Times Book Review." Author Cynthia L. Haven, a National Endowment for the Humanities "Public Scholar," rounded out the panel.
The "hybrid" event took place 7-9 p.m. (PST) on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, at the Stanford Humanities Center.