Cathy Lanigan

After one of the longest Park City winters in recent years, and a cooler than average spring, Parkites may be relishing late summer warmth. At what point, though, do appealing summer temperatures become menacing threats to survival?

What price would you pay to achieve your ideal fate? Would paying that price make you morally compromised if that ideal fate was your destiny? In “Birnam Wood,” Eleanor Catton explores the loftiest of ideals and the price we may be tempted to pay to reach them.

Author and Pulitzer prize-winning journalist John Branch is the featured guest at this year's Park City Friends of the Library author luncheon.

In this era of ‘truthiness’ when competing information sources present very different realities, we may find ourselves questioning whose version of facts we believe. When there are conflicting histories, which do we trust and, in the end, does it matter? Pulitzer Prize winning author Hernan Diaz’ new novel insists we look to the source material.

On January 11th, 2022, members of the Women’s Giving Fund of the Park City Community Foundation will be virtually gathering for their annual book discussion. This year, the selection is the riveting and alarming account of the Flint water crisis told by the pediatrician who blew the whistle, What the Eyes Don’t See, by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha.