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James Fallows - James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. He has reported extensively from outside the United States, and once worked as President Carter's chief speechwriter. His latest book, China Airborne, was published in early May.
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James Fallows is based in Washington as a national correspondent for The Atlantic. He has worked for the magazine for nearly 30 years and in that time has also lived in Seattle, Berkeley, Austin, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, and Beijing. He was raised in Redlands, California, received his undergraduate degree in American history and literature from Harvard, and received a graduate degree in economics from Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. 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. He is also now the chair in U.S. media at the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, in Australia.

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 and a N.Y. Emmy award for the documentary series Doing Business in China. He was the founding chairman of the New America Foundation. His two most recent books, Blind Into Baghdad (2006) and Postcards From Tomorrow Square (2009), are based on his writings for The Atlantic. His latest book, China Airborne, was published in early May. He is married to Deborah Fallows, author of the recent book Dreaming in Chinese. They have two married sons.

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Last Word on New Music

By James Fallows

Jul 26 2010, 11:27 PM ET

I am getting a fair amount of pushback/mockery from The Young People in internet-land for having said that I like the group Pomplamoose. The tone is pretty much how I would have sounded back in the day if my mom had said how much she liked that nice young Wayne Newton.

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Oh well. I will keep my musical tastes to myself for the nonce -- although, I dare you to mock my man Bill Evans! Or Kurt Elling! Or Diane Schuur. Or the Beach Boys, or...

And I'll make only this one exception, to which I figure I'm entitled. Ladies and gentlemen, out of Coventry, England, my new favorite group: The Fallows !  No joke.

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More of their songs on YouTube. Here endeth music-related discussions on this site....


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