We knew we had a hit on our hands as soon as the first reads of Matthew Goodman’s Eighty Days came in. “Rollicking, fast-paced, enlightening, cinematic,” said the Discover selection committee readers. “We think Erik Larson fans will want to give this a whirl.”  Matthew Goodman tells the story behind his new book, a Spring ’13 Discover pick, in a guest post on the Discover blog.