For the record, Media Bistro has run a Q-and-A with me on "tricks of the trade," including what to do if an interview is going nowhere. Results are here.
Also, I was part of a panel about the presidency on the Charlie Rose show this evening (with Robert Caro, Jon Meacham, Michael Beschloss, and Doris Kearns Goodwin). Will put up a link when available. (Update: the show is here.) Last week the Atlantic's editor James Bennet and I were on Morning Joe, here. And when I can find a link to yesterday's Fareed Zakaria GPS panel about China, I will put that up too. (Audio is available.) Here endeth the in-house news.
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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. He and his wife, Deborah Fallows, are the authors of the new book Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America, which has been a New York Times best-seller and is the basis of a forthcoming HBO documentary.