Larissa MacFarquhar Reading
Date
Mon January 25th 2016, 8:00pm
Location
Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall
Larissa MacFarquhar’s book, Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help, about people living extremely ethical lives, was published in 2015. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine since 1998. Her profile subjects have included Barack Obama, John Ashbery, Derek Parfit, and Aaron Swartz.