Halfway through reading The Great Influenza and coming to terms with the fact that I'm a realistic romantic sucker for essentially nonfiction fairy tales. Where a team of people come together to slay a dragon whether that be developing an antibiotic, organ transplantation, or some other intractable problem, sometimes with some abstract cost of metaphorical limbs lost. Doesn't have to be medical, stuff like The Right Stuff, Apollo 8 and Endurance counts too. What other nonfiction narrative novels do you guys recommend below?

Anyone know any good magazine articles? I've been subscribed to the LRB for the last year and really enjoyed every issue. Curious if anyone has any recommendations for good articles?

Big day, Did you notice the site has been fast since yesterday night? The lit salon book DB is live, and everything except search and cover image is pulling book data from the DB. 🎉 Gathering telemetry data for the search index, that will be next up and we will not be depending on openlibrary anymore