William Kennedy's "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" with Tobias Wolff, Carol Edgarian & Robert Harrison

Stanford's "Another Look" zoom discussion of William Kennedy's "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game" took place on Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Discussants included National Medal of Arts winner Tobias Wolff, novelist Carol Edgarian, and author Robert Pogue Harrison.
Pulitzer prizewinning novelist Kennedy's 1978 novel follows the fortunes of 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.
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Another Look is a seasonal book club that draws together Stanford's top writers and scholars with distinguished figures from the Bay Area and beyond. The books are Stanford’s picks for short masterpieces you may not have read because they have been forgotten, overlooked, or simply have not received the attention they merit.
This event was sponsored by:
Stanford Continuing Studies Program
The Donna and Eliott K. Slade Foundation
The New York State Writers Institute
With special thanks for technical support to:
Roger Winkelman and the Freeman Spogli Institute
and Brendan Kennedy