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Dear Readers,

As you can see, I’m no longer updating this blog with much regularity. I’m leaving it in place here on my website because it’s a useful (to me, at least) archive of posts from 2008 to 2012, mostly relating to my first book, , and the Harlem Children’s Zone.

I’m still regularly posting new information about my books, articles, and speaking engagements, but I’m posting it elsewhere. Some links for those updates:

This weekend the public-radio program “This American Life�� devoted its full hour to “How Children Succeed.�� The episode is now .

�ճ�����’s by Brian Bethune on “How Children Succeed�� in the new issue of Maclean’s, the Canadian weekly, featuring a photo of me in a classroom of the Montauk public school.

“How Children Succeed�� comes out today! Please stop by your local independent bookstore or online bookseller and . As well, please check out I did this morning on NPR’s “Morning Edition.��

Finally: If you’re in New York City, please come to the I’m doing with Ira Glass of “This American Life�� tonight at 7 pm at the Barnes & Noble at 82nd and Broadway. See you there!

In today’s Globe and Mail, there’s by Margaret Wenteaboutmy new book, “How Children Succeed,�� including a long Q&A between me and Ms. Wente.

Bill Moyers comments on my Times Magazine article on Roseland, poverty, and Barack Obama. More .

On Oct. 3, I’ll be speaking in Atlanta, in the beautiful building above, as part of SCAD’s Ivy Hall Writers Series. More details on this and other talks I’ll be doing this fall can be found on the new page on my website.

Some reactions to my on President Obama, Roseland, and poverty:

1. Whet Moser at Chicagomag.com that Obama’s healthcare reforms are arguably themselves an anti-poverty program (and one I didn’t give much space to in the piece).

2. Amanda Erickson at the Atlantic’s Cities blog on why the Harlem Children’s Zone hasn’t been replicated more successfully. (I agree with her that Geoffrey Canada is a rare leader, but I think there are lots of othe...

My new article on poverty, Barack Obama, and the Chicago neighborhood of Roseland on the New York Times’s website. It will be the cover story in the Times Magazine this weekend.

Here’s some of “Can Character Be Taught?,�� a panel I was on last weekend at the Aspen Ideas Festival, along with Dominic Randolph and Russell Shaw. Andrea Mitchell moderated. It’s part of the series of reports on NBC News.