Paul Tough

Writer & Speaker

Posts Tagged ‘New York City’


Monday, October 20th, 2008

New York Times

The New York Times reviews Whatever It Takes:

When it comes to an introduction to the debate about poverty and parenting in urban America, you could hardly do better than Tough’s book. The children of the uneducated and impoverished too often bear a gloomy inheritance, their futures set in stone from an early age. Within Canada’s 97 blocks, Tough finds a different kind of legacy — one shaped by parents who have learned to pay attention to their children’s developmental needs. With a support network unlike anything else in America, the children of Harlem can envision a future so many others expect as a matter of course.


Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Stars — They’re just like us!

Sarah Jessica Parker stocks up on her fall reading.


Monday, September 29th, 2008

Barnes & Noble Next Monday

Attention New Yorkers: Next Monday, October 6, at 7 p.m., Geoff Canada and I will be speaking at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square. I’ll read a little from Whatever It Takes, and Geoff and I will both speak, answer questions and sign books. Please come on by and join us.


Monday, September 29th, 2008

Brian Lehrer audio

Geoffrey Canada and I talking about education, the election and the Harlem Children’s Zone on The Brian Lehrer Show this morning on WNYC radio.


Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Brian Lehrer

Tomorrow (Monday) morning at 11 a.m., Geoff Canada and I will be on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC here in New York. I think it’s on both AM 820 and FM 93.9. We’ll be part of the show’s “Thirty Issues in Thirty Days” series, talking about “the most pressing education needs in the US today.”


Saturday, September 27th, 2008

McNally Jackson

On Wednesday, October 29, at 7 p.m., I’ll be at McNally Jackson bookstore, at 52 Prince St. in New York, reading from Whatever It Takes and talking about the Harlem Children’s Zone with Sharon Jarvis, Senior Reference Librarian at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The evening is hosted by The Desk Set, a group of young librarians and archivists described in the New York Times as “a hipper crowd of shushers.”


Friday, September 19th, 2008

The Agenda

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.


Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Barnes & Noble Union Square

Geoffrey Canada and I will be speaking at the Barnes & Noble at Union Square in New York on Monday, October 6, at 7:00 p.m. Please come join us.