Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
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Larissa McFarker is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her book Strangers Drowning is about extreme altruists. She says she didn't realize the extent of hostility and suspicion of them until she started writing about them. "I went into it wanting to simply understand the drive and the motives"
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