From individual lives lived to make the world a better place to heartbreaking mass tragedies, I review the books that memorialize them.

Latest episodes of the podcast Life Hacks from Dead People

• Life Hacks from Dead People (Trailer)
• Review of Nick Hornby's "Fever Pitch"
• “The Ghost Map” Episode 2
• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World," by Steven Johnson