Breathless

“Breathless is as close to authoritative history – from the virus’s origins to vaccines and variants – as we have, told through scientists involved, and the signature ease of Quammen’s prose. It reads like a thriller in real-time.” – “Chicago Tribune”“Breathless presents the sweeping scientific story of the pandemic, connecting puzzle pieces that at the time had felt so out of place.”–Erin Garcia de Jesús “Science News”“A supernova among science journalists and lauded author of The Song of the Dodo and Spillover now tackles the most sprawling news story on the planet, the Covid-19 pandemic… . Quammen’s narrative finesse is peerless as he meticulously dissects the waves of mass infections, Wuhan to Alpha to Delta to Omicron.”– “Oprahdaily.com”“Gripping… . Breathless, like the virus it depicts, is a dramatic culmination of an idea that Quammen introduced many of us to in Spillover: that the science story of viral ecology could very easily become the biggest story on planet Earth.”–Joshua Sokol “The Atlantic”

David Quammen’s books include Breathless, The Tangled Tree, The Song of the Dodo, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, and Spillover. He has written for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside, among other magazines, and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion, and with three Russian wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python.