BILL CARTER
Thursday, May 22 at 8 p.m.

After each of four summers of salmon fishing in Alaskan waters, Bill Carter vowed not to return, yet each time he would answer his captain's call. His remarkable memoir, Red Summer: The Danger, Madness and Exaltation of Salmon Fishing in a Remote Alaskan Village (Scribner), sheds light not only on the culture of the people who fish, but also the salmon, and the wildlife who depend on it. "Red Summer is a wonderful book about a rare subject, the mysterious pleasure of brutally hard work. In this case it is the salmon run in Alaska and Bill Carter proves again he is a first-rate writer in the fascinating tradition of Junger and Krakauer." – Jim Harrison.

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