SILF Podcast: Postcards from Tomorrow Square with James Fallows

James Fallows is a correspondent for The Atlantic and one of the most respected and intriguing commentators on China today. He has worked for the magazine for more than 25 years, based in Washington DC, Seattle, Berkeley, Austin, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai. In addition to working for the Atlantic, he has spent two years as chief White House speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, two years as the editor of US News & World Report, and six months as a program designer at Microsoft. He is an instrument-rated private pilot. Fallows has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award five times and has won once; he has also won the American Book Award for nonfiction. Since the creation of the New America Foundation in 1999 he has been chairman of its board. His latest book is Blind Into Baghdad (2006).



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Posted Mar 15th 2009 10:51a.m. by Lee Mack
filed under Shanghai International Literary Fest (SILF)

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