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Kirsten Drysdale is a journalist, broadcaster and writer. Her book, I Built No Schools In Kenya: A Year of Unmitigated Madness, was published by Penguin Random House in 2019.

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23 Sept 2024
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17 things I learned about life by mainlining Maria Popova’s website Close Reads

The brain behind Brain Pickings reads widely on every subject under the sun—then weaves everything she’s read into impossibly long essays of her own. Would slogging through Popova’s entire output make you a wiser, more noble person? Kirsten Drysdale decided to find out.

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