I like to give away lottery tickets and other gifts at readings and book launches as a way of saying thanks to people who’ve come out. When I launched The Warhol Gang in Vancouver, I gave away lottery tickets for a particularly large jackpot, making my reading one of the potentially most lucrative events ever. Alas, no new members of the Warhol Gang won the big prize. However, Ethan Baron, one of my colleagues in journalism, may have been saving up all his luck for something more valuable: staying alive when attacked by a grizzly bear. Read his personal account of the terrifying encounter.