On July 21, I’ll be appearing in something called “Literary Primetime with Paul Tough” at the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta. It’s part of the Banff Summer Arts Festival. Tickets are now on sale.
Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
A Talk in Banff
Sunday, May 9th, 2010Alberta Magazine Publishers
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009This Friday, October 23, at 2 p.m., I’ll be speaking to a group of magazine publishers and editors at the Stanley Milner Public Library in Edmonton, Alberta, in a speech/Q&A organized by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association. AMPA interviewed me about being a magazine editor for the most recent issue of their newsletter. I’ll be in Edmonton as part of the city’s International Literary Festival.
Edmonton Literary Festival
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009On October 23 and 24, I’ll be one of the featured authors at the Edmonton International Literary Festival in Alberta. I’ll be reading from Whatever It Takes and taking part in a session on “the craft and discipline of writing nonfiction.”
Maclean’s blog
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009On his blog at Macleans.ca, the website of Maclean’s, the Canadian weekly, Andrew Potter reviews “Whatever It Takes”:
Tough’s book is the distillation of four years of reporting he did on the HCZ, while working for the New York Times magazine. It traces the evolution of Canada’s efforts, narrating both the wonderful successes (such as the Baby College that teaches even the most inept and unprepared parents how to properly foster their child’s cognitive development) as well as the failures — the most heartbreaking of which is the summary expulsion of an underperforming class of eighth graders from his charter school, the Promise Academy. …
Harlem is one of the most complicated, fascinating, and exasperating neighborhoods in North America. Geoffrey Canada is a remarkable man, and Paul Tough has written a small masterpiece about him and his community.
Dispatches audio
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Audio of my interview with the CBC Radio program “Dispatches” is now posted on the show’s website. Right-click here to download the podcast version (my interview starts at about 30 minutes in, after the story on the cheese bank), or click here and scroll down to listen to the interview alone. The “Dispatches” site summarizes the interview, conducted by host Rick MacInnes-Rae:
What’s the story on this Harlem Children’s Zone that’s captured the imagination of a president?
After all, for the longest time, the corner of 125th and Madison in Harlem was the intersection of poverty and failure.
But these days, for 97 blocks around, you’re in The Zone, a great big social experiment in education and hope.
More than 7,000 kids and their parents are being taught that just because they’re broke or living in public housing, it doesn’t mean they can’t succeed.
The program isn’t just trying to solve problems in education. It’s trying to bust poverty in America, according to journalist Paul Tough.
He’s the author of the new book Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest To Change Harlem And America.
CBC Radio
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Attention Canadians: Next Monday, March 9, at 7:30 p.m., I’ll be on “Dispatches,” on CBC Radio One, talking with the host, Rick MacInnes-Rae, about Whatever It Takes and the Harlem Children’s Zone. A few days after that, audio should be posted here.
The Agenda
Friday, September 19th, 2008
To see me wearing an incredible amount of makeup and sitting in front of a fake background of New York City at night and talking about New Orleans and Harlem, just click here.
This time I mean it, Ontarians
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008I’m on The Agenda on TVO tonight at 8 p.m. I think there will be video up on their site soon thereafter.
Sorry, Ontarians, for the bum steer
Monday, September 15th, 2008Correction: the previously announced interview on The Agenda on TVO did not run tonight. More likely Wednesday at 8 p.m.
The Agenda
Saturday, September 13th, 2008Ontarians: I’ll be on “The Agenda” on TVO on Monday, September 15, at 8:00 p.m., talking about New Orleans and Harlem.