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Michelle Ellia
March 10, 2019

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…

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Named #1 Summer Road Trip Book by Spy.com

Michelle Ellia
March 10, 2019

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.

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Featured in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Michelle Ellia
March 4, 2019

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…

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Featured in Arizona Daily Star

Michelle Ellia
March 3, 2019

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,…

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Listen Tonight on Thacker Mountain Radio Hour

Shelli Stockton
March 2, 2019

Listen Saturday evening, March 2, 2019 as James and Deborah Fallows are featured on the Thacker Mountain Radio Hour from Off Square Books in Oxford, MS. The show will be…

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Featured on Virginia Tech’s ‘Save Our Towns’

Shelli Stockton
March 2, 2019

Virginia Tech University’s Outreach and International Affairs Department featured Our Towns in the February 2019 episode of their monthly video series Save Our Towns. The series goal is to guide and…

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Featured on Esri Podcast

Shelli Stockton
February 26, 2019

Esri’s Analyst Relations Lead Crista Crum hosts this podcast during which the Fallowses detail their findings from five years of interactions with business leaders, government leaders, and educators in some…

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Featured on C-SPAN at National Governors Association Conference

Shelli Stockton
February 24, 2019

James and Deborah Fallows were featured panelists at the National Governors Association Winter Meeting on Feb. 23, joining former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzger and Richard Haas, former State Dept. Policy…

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Featured in the Victoria Advocate

Michelle Ellia
February 21, 2019

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.…

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Named to Five Books’ Best Books List

Michelle Ellia
February 20, 2019

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,…

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Featured on WITF’s Smart Talk

Shelli Stockton
February 18, 2019

WITF’s February 18th Smart Talk program features James and Deborah Fallows discussing the characteristics of successful cities. Smart Talk, hosted by Scott LaMar, is a daily, live, interactive program featuring…

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Fallowses to Launch Indiana Humanities’ INseparable Initiative

Michelle Ellia
February 17, 2019

Indiana Humanities has announced James and Deborah Fallows will launch their INseparable initiative, a two-year effort to help Hoosiers evaluate how they relate to each other across real or imagined boundaries.…

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Featured in The Advocate

Michelle Ellia
February 15, 2019

In their February 15, 2019 editorial, The Advocate points to Our Towns for examples of local progress across the country. They posit that the book’s essential message is that, “Once…

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Featured in The Press Democrat

Michelle Ellia
February 15, 2019

In his February 15, 2019 column, Pete Golis references Deb Fallows‘ findings about the changing nature of libraries. “The best libraries, she wrote for The Atlantic magazine, are ‘bustling civic…

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Referenced in Crain’s Cleveland Business

Michelle Ellia
February 10, 2019

In his February 5, 2019 opinion column, Bloomberg’s Noah Smith References Our Towns‘ illustrations of paths of economic revival. He describes the potential duplication of efforts possible in the numerous…

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Featured by the American Enterprise Institute

Michelle Ellia
February 8, 2019

Jim and Deb Fallows were featured panelists at AEI’s discussion of their recent Survey on Community and Society. Watch the full panel discussion at this link.