May 03, 2022
Books & Writers – The Creative Process Features Deborah & James Fallows
Deb and Jim share their views on writing and life in an episode of the insightful “The Creative Process” podcast series.
Listen to the interview here.
PODCASTS
April 25, 2022
Write America: Deborah and James Fallows
Join Alice-Byrd’s Books for the fifty-seventh episode of “Write America,” featuring Deb and Jim Fallows, as they read and discuss their works intimating how the deep divisions in the country may be healed by the quiet power of art.
Learn more here.
April 25, 2022
What Makes a City Great? – BYU Radio
Top of Mind with Julie Rose
Millions of Americans move each year in search of a better house, neighborhood, job, or quality of life. Is leaving the only way to live someplace better? What would it take for an imperfect place to become your perfect match? Jim and Deb Fallows join Julie Rose to discuss what makes a city great.
Listen here.
March 09, 2022
James Fallows featured on ‘Stand Up with Pete Dominick’
Jim joins host Pete Dominick for his podcast to discuss events of the day.
The podcast features “brilliant guests daily.”
Listen to it here.
March 07, 2022
Looking at America from up high and on the ground, with Jim Fallows
On this episode of the Vital Center, Jim and podcast host Geoff Kabaservice discuss Deb and Jim’s travels across the country and why politics so often works better at the local level, even in some places hard hit by economic decline and political polarization. The veteran journalist describes “the beautiful American continent [which] is full of those moments when you think, ‘Oh, this is how it looks. This is how it works.’”
Listen to the podcast here.
February 16, 2022
Anarchism is…James Fallows’s Our Towns
In this conversation, James joins host Graham Culbertson for a discussion of the dysfunction of the federal government, its historically reactionary nature, and the way that “Our Towns” offer a grassroots alternative to that reactionary system. Plus he tries to convince James that his efforts against leaf blowers will save the world.
Listen to the podcast here.
February 10, 2022
Listen to “James & Deborah Fallows on ‘Our Towns’: a Craftsmanship Artisan Interview”
This husband-and-wife journalism team spent four years crisscrossing the United States in a small plane, visiting dozens of small towns. They saw communities engaged in a vigorous process of economic renewal—a stunning portrait, in sum, of an America reinventing itself, literally from the ground up.
The Craftsmanship Initiative’s founder and executive director Todd Oppenheimer, snagged Deb and Jim for a sit-down interview.
Listen to the podcast here.
October 14, 2021
Change: Global & Local
How do global changes affect us on the local level, and vice versa? Writer and journalist James Fallows, and the founder of FutureMap, Parag Khanna, discuss the interplay between the tectonic forces of geopolitics and the specific currents of the everyday on The Progress Network’s weekly podcast.
Listen to the podcast here.
August 31, 2021
What America’s Small Towns Tell Us About Democracy
Ten Across Founder Duke Reiter talks to veteran journalists James and Deborah Fallows, who have recently traveled the country reporting from America’s small towns to explore the nation’s growing fragmentation and how we can look beyond artificial boundaries.
Listen to the podcast here.
June 20, 2020
Featured on Onward On Air with Jake Soberal
In his June 18, 2020 episode, Onward on Air host Jake Soberal spoke with James Fallows, along with Michael Tubbs, Mayor of Stockon and Joe Barela, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, about their approach, response and leadership during the current crisis.
Listen to the episode here.
May 30, 2020
Featured in The Hill
In his May 27, 2020 editor’s note, The Hill’s Steve Clemons features Deborah Fallows’s recent post about the arts. The write-up accompanies his interview of National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet.
Read his editor’s note and listen to the interview here.
April 27, 2020
James Fallows on NPR’s The Facing Project
The Facing Project‘s J.R. Jamison and Kelsey Timmerman interviewed James Fallows on Season 2, Episode 8’s show. The monthly podcast seeks to strengthen communities by connecting people through stories. Listen to the podcast here.