Featured on NBC News
“According to James, the strong signs of regional identity, reform, experimentation, innovation, and positivity, paired with cities’ ability to create long-term plans, demonstrates how the nation is still going strong.”
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Featured by the University of Redlands
“James and Deborah Fallows, University of Redlands distinguished fellows and honorary degree recipients, will be speaking at the University on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, as part of a national tour…
Featured in the GV Wire
“Forget National Dysfunction. America’s Cities Are Blooming. Fresno Among Them.”
Featured on KQED
“The two discovered an optimism for the future of America, which Fallows says is a departure from the popular narrative that America has lost its way.”
Featured on The Press-Enterprise
“Redlands native James Fallows and his wife Deborah have been crisscrossing the U.S. in a single-engine prop airplane searching for answers to what does and does not make this country…
Featured in The New York Times
“Most of the cities tell a redemption story about themselves. They had a booming industry; it collapsed; now they are rebuilding with new industries and new wealth.”
Featured on WBUR
James and Deborah Fallows are featured on “On Point” with Jane Clayson.
Featured in the Minneapolis Star Tribune
“As the authors dropped from the sky into communities from Sioux Falls, S.D., to Duluth, to Ajo, N.M., to Burlington, Vt., to St. Mary’s, Ga., they slowly pieced together a…
Featured in the Greenville News
“If Greenville had a “separated at birth” twin city, the most likely candidate is Burlington, Vermont, according to James and Deborah Fallows, co-authors of the book Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile…
Featured in the Emporia Gazette
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Featured on Curbed
“Our Towns is admittedly an anecdotal analysis. But the Fallows’ on-and-off journeys between 2012 and 2017, when they studied more than two dozen communities in so-called flyover country by flying…
Interviewed by Len Edgerly
Len Edgerly interviews James and Deborah Fallows, authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-mile Journey Into the Heart of America.
Featured by the Erie Reader
“An impulse for soon-to-be readers clutching a copy of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America will be to wonder whether they’ve visited or lived where James…
Featured on Fox News Radio
“James & Deborah Fallows,joined Brian Kilmeade to discuss their book “Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America” which chronicles their journey visiting small towns in the heart…
Guest Writers on TIME.com
“Why Young Americans Are Increasingly Moving to Small Towns”
Featured on BookPage
“Co-authoring a travel memoir can be tricky, but the Fallows team pulls it off like the professionals they are.”