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On April 17, 2019, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced James Fallows was elected to membership in its 2019 class. The Academy, founded in 1780 by John Adams…

James Fallows was awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the American Geographical Society (AGS) on April 5, 2019 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers. The Fellowship is…

James and Deborah Fallows were featured in the April 11, 2019 print edition of The Economist  in an article on Hell, Michigan, population 72. The lessons learned from the 42…

Jacksonville Business Journal Editor in Chief Timothy Gibbons interviewed James and Deborah Fallows prior to their April 8th appearance as a part of the World Affairs Council Jacksonville’s Global Issues…

Deb Fallows is quoted in Gary Branson’s April 6th guest column in the Marion Star (Ohio). Branson, the Executive Director of the Marion Public Library, goes on to discuss the…

In two March 29, 2019 articles, Muncie, Indiana Star Press reporter Seth Slabaugh references James and Deborah Fallowses’ recent talk in Muncie as a part of Indiana Humanities‘s kickoff of their…

The Longview News-Journal‘s Frank Pool seeks to analyze a map of partisan prejudice in America recently published in The Atlantic, specifically as it relates to the apparent low polarization of…

In his March 19, 2019 column, The Washington Posts‘s David Ignatius posits that Donald Trump may be vulnerable in 2020 in the Rust Belt because he made such “extravagant” promises…

On Monday, March 18, James and Deborah Fallows kicked off the first event of Indiana Humanities‘ two-year program INseparable, a plan designed to look at how communities relate to each…

In their Monday, March 11, 2019 editorial The Journal Gazette previews the Fallowses’ upcoming discussion of the travel and research that led to the Our Towns book. The March 20, 2019 appearance…

On National Women’s Day, Curbed’s Alissa Walker named 25 ‘Must-read books about cities written by women,’ including Our Towns. After writing a story about how urbanist discourse often shuts out women’s…

For those planning the great American summer road trip, Melissa Maize of Spy.com recommends a number of books for research. #1 is Our Towns.

In her March 4, 2019 column, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Diana Nelson Jones reports on the refreshing tenor of Jim and Deb Fallowses’ recent talk at Alphabet City, a Pittsburgh bookstore. She concludes, “The…

In her March 3, 2019 reporting on the annual Tucson Festival of Books, Arizona Daily Star reporter Norma Coile contrasted the sessions focused on the divisiveness of issues surrounding the president,…

University of Houston – Victoria President Robert Glenn recommended Our Towns to his fellow citizens interested in working with him to make the city more livable and attractive for newcomers.…

Our Towns has been named to Five Books‘ list of Best Books on America’s Increasingly Challenged Position in World Affairs. Ali Wyne, a foreign policy analyst at the RAND Corporation,…