A Virtual Evening with Authors Amy Irvine and Pam Houston

Park City Library is hosting a free Virtual Evening with Authors Amy Irvine and Pam Houston on Tuesday, October 6 from 7-9 pm.

As part of Utah Humanities Book Festival, Kate Mapp, Adult Services Librarian will be moderating a discussion with the authors on their new book Airmail: Letter of Politics, Pandemics, and Place.

When the current pandemic forced them to eliminate travel and hunker down in place, Irvine and Houston, began a correspondence based on the passion and devotion they both have for the land they love and call home. Although they’d never met at the time, their letters to each other became a communication lifeline and a way of sharing their longings, fears and need for action in protecting our land, our people and our way of life.

Houston is the Director of Creative Writing at U.C. Davis. She is the author of several books including her first, Cowboys Are My Weakness and last year's Deep Creek; Finding Hope in the High Country, which was Park City’s One Book, One Community selection for 2020. Her short stories have been selected for the Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart Prize and the Best American Short Stories of the Century. She lives in Colorado on a ranch 9,000 feet above sea level.

Amy Irvine is a sixth-generation Utahn and a long-time public lands activist. Her work has appeared in Orion, High Country News, High Desert Journal, Rock & Ice and Red Rock Testimony. She lives on a mesa in southwest Colorado on the other side of the Continental Divide.

Here is the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86283389802  Viewers will be able to submit questions via facebook or the Zoom Q & A option.

The release date for Airmail: Letters of Politics, Pandemics, and Place is October 13 so both libraries expect to have copies available soon after.