Michelle Nijhuis interviews Kathryn Schulz about her New Yorker story, “The Really Big One,” on the risk of a major earthquake from the Cascadia subduction zone off the Pacific Northwest coast: "When you first think about this story, you might think, 'Oh, what could be easier? People love natural disasters, this thing’s going to write itself.' But what I realized almost right away is that it’s very difficult to tell the story of something that hasn’t happened yet."
September 20, 2015