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The Paperback of The White Cascade appears Published by Holt on January 22, 2008

The German Translation of Extravagance appears Der Duft Des Geldes appears from Fischer Verlag in October 2007

The Washington Post Style Section features The White Cascade The article is by Bob Thompson. with photos of the author by Bill O'Leary. Read the profile here

The New York Times, The L.A. Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post review The White Cascade "Mr. Krist does wonders," says William Grimes in the NYTimes. "A gripping man-vs-nature narrative," says Don Oldenburg of USA Today. Mark. S. Luce in the LATimes says the book is written "with verve, humanity, and purpose...The results couldn't be more pleasing." And David Laskin in the Post writes: "An engrossing disaster narrative...[Krist] deeply and delicately probes the moral complexities." Read these and other reviews here

More Reviews from The Sunday New York Times Book Review, The Seattle Times, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and The Minneapolis Star-Tribune The White Cascade has "complexity and relevance," writes Louise Jarvis Flynn in the NYTBR. "Gripping," says Bob Simmons in the Seattle Times, "Gary Krist has written what is surely the most complete and authoritative account." Bruce Adomeit in the Star Tribune calls it "a suspenseful, compelling tale." And John Marshall in the Seattle P-I says, "The 1910 Wellington train disaster has finally found its masterful chronicler...a compelling read for national fans of disaster epics and an important contribution to this state's historical literature." Read these and other reviews here

Still More Reviews from Entertainment Weekly, The San Diego
Union-Tribune, The Portland Oregonian, and Trains

"A gripping tale," says EW. "The White Cascade is hard to put down," says B.T. Shaw
in The Oregonian. Kelly Murphy in the Union-Tribune praises the book's "rich, fleshed-out
characters." And Kathi Kube in TRAINS calls the book "a stunning piece of
literary journalism."
Read these and other reviews here

Five Best Disaster Books
published in The Wall Street Journal

A roundup of five of the best, most vivid depictions of natural disasters by authors like
David McCullough, Nathaniel Philbrick, Erik Larson, Simon Winchester, and...uh, God.
Read the review here

Chaos Theory Optioned for Film

The novel was optioned for an independent feature by Big Picture Films.

The White Cascade named a March 2007 BookSense Notable Book BookSense is a nationwide association of independent bookstores and their websites.

Nonfiction Book To Appear

The White Cascade

The Great Northern Railway Disaster
and America's Deadliest Avalanche

Narrative nonfiction about the 1910 Wellington Avalanche Disaster
to be published by Henry Holt in February 2007