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b'Jon Mooallem is a journalist, author, and host of The Walking Podcast. His latest book is This is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together.\\n\\n\\u201cThere is this impulse that we have, this very clearly documented impulse that people everywhere have, to help. It sounds tacky, but when the bottom drops out, when ordinary life is overturned and there\\u2019s this upheaval or this disruption\\u2014if it\\u2019s a natural disaster or even something like this, that there\\u2019s ... in the book I call it a \\u2018civic immune response.\\u2019 People do spontaneously help each other, they work together, they collaborate. This whole idea that society falls apart and everyone descends into madness and violence is just not true. And we know that. We have science that shows it.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to Mailchimp and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@jmooallem\\njonmooallem.com\\nMooallem on Longform\\nLongform Podcast #74: Jon Mooallem\\n[08:29] This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together (Random House \\u2022 2020)\\n[11:26] "The Senseless Logic of the Wild" (New York Times Magazine \\u2022 March 2019)\\n[11:32] "Neanderthals Were People, Too" (New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Jan 2017)\\n[11:35] "We Have Fire Everywhere" (New York Times Magazine \\u2022 July 2019)\\n[34:45] Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America (Penguin \\u2022 2013)\\n[34:58] Black Prairie\'s soundtrack album to Wild Ones\\n[35:39] "Wild Ones Live" (99% Invisible \\u2022 Oct 2013)\\n[36:47] "Death, Redesigned" (California Sunday \\u2022 April 2015)\\n[37:46] "One Man\\u2019s Quest to Change the Way We Die" (New York Times Magazine \\u2022 Jan 2017)\\n[44:10] Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Thornton Wilder \\u2022 1938)\\n[53:45] The Walking Podcast\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'