Philip Larkin's "A Girl in Winter" with Elizabeth Conquest, Tobias Wolff, and Robert Pogue Harrison

Philip Larkin is one of England’s most eminent postwar poets, but few know of his early forays into fiction. Another Look's Monday, April 30, 2018, Stanford event, when Another Look considered Larkin’s little-known 1947 novel, "A Girl in Winter," may be the first discussion of the little-known work at a major university. The story take place in wartime England, where a young refugee from the Continent attempts to recover her life while working in a provincial library.
Panelists included Another Look Director Robert Harrison, who moderated the discussion. The Stanford professor and author also hosts the popular talk show, "Entitled Opinions." He was joined by renowned writer Tobias Wolff, the founding director of Another Look, and literary scholar Elizabeth Conquest. “Liddie” Conquest knew Philip Larkin-a close friend of her late husband, the historian and poet Robert Conquest and she has written about Larkin’s poetry. Her husband's "Collected Poems," which she edited, was published by Waywiser in 2020.