GARY KRIST
Tuesday, February 27 at 7:30 p.m.

Known in the book world as a noted novelist and short-story writer (Bad Chemistry, Chaos Theory, The Garden State), Gary Krist has also been writing fine narrative nonfiction along the way. Magazines such as National Geographic, Traveler, GQ, and Esquire have featured his work. He is here tonight with his first nonfiction book, one that is very germane to this neck of the woods. The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Henry Holt) is his recounting of the 1910 avalanche in the Cascades that took the lives of nearly 100 people, an occurrence that apparently has not been explored in book form before. "What a wild-eyed, horrific, brilliantly written story Gary Krist tells in The White Cascade. You almost feel like you're a Great Northern Railway passenger in 1910, coping with the blizzard-from-hell. Jack London would be proud of this riveting nonfiction." - Douglas Brinkley. "The White Cascade brilliantly recreates one of those terrifying moments when human ingenuity runs up against the fierce power of nature...[This is] storytelling at it's finest." - Kevin Boyle.

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