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Sarah Vowell
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Sarah Vowell

Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor for public radio's This American Life and has written for Time, Esquire, GQ, Spin, Salon, McSweeneys, The Village Voice, and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Radio On, Take the Cannoli, and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. She lives in New York City.

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Unfamiliar Fishes will be released on March 22, 2011 in Compact Disk, eAudio
Mar 22, 2011
Unfamiliar Fishes is now available in Compact Disk, eAudio
Mar 22, 2011
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Unfamiliar Fishes
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Assassination Vacation has won an award
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot is now available in eAudio
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Assassination Vacation is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
The Wordy Shipmates will be released on October 07, 2008 in Compact Disk
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The Wordy Shipmates is now available in Compact Disk
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The Wordy Shipmates will be released on October 07, 2008 in eAudio
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The Wordy Shipmates is now available in eAudio
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Herald Times, February 2, 2012
...Book discussion set Feb. 16 at library MANITOWOC — "Assassination Vacation," by Sarah Vowell, will be discussed at 6 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Manitowoc Public Library. It is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. The author, according...
USA Today, January 25, 2012
...really adds up. The site's library includes more than 10,000 titles, including the Steve Jobs biography, Sarah Vowell's The Partly Cloudy Patriot and A Confederacy of Dunces. Right now the service's main competition is Audible, a site that offers a much...
USA Today, January 25, 2012
...really adds up. The site's library includes more than 10,000 titles, including the Steve Jobs biography, Sarah Vowell's The Partly Cloudy Patriot and A Confederacy of Dunces. Right now the service's main competition is Audible, a site that offers a much...
Montgomery Media, January 4, 2012
...West award. He is currently the Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of California–Riverside. Sarah Vowell, “Unfamiliar Fishes” Thursday, March 22, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia Central Library Cultural critic and public radio...
Tallahassee Democrat, December 30, 2011
...lightens up for spring with Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" in Opperman Music Hall. APRIL 1: Comic writer-historian Sarah Vowell reads from her work at Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. APRIL 6-10: The Tallahassee Film Festival brings the world of cinema to various...
Bookslut, December 6, 2011
...author head to Harlem and accidentally invent voguing? I was hoping that, like a subdued, cartoonist version of Sarah Vowell, Kupperman might earnestly explore the history surrounding Mark Twain. Or, like Forrest Gump, we would see the title character as...
Austin American Statesman, December 5, 2011
...Sarah Vowell is a great humorist and if you don’t immediately know her name, then you surely would recognize her uniquely gifted voice, heard on public radio’s “This American...
Elizabeth Willse: Writer For Hire, September 19, 2011
...Meyers Bloodhound – Tamora Pierce Ghost Story – Jim Butcher Smokin’ Seventeen – Janet Evanovich Assassination Vacation – Sarah Vowell From Dead to Worse – Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone – ditto All Together Dead – I may have had an...
Book Addiction, September 16, 2011
...wittiness that Vowell brings to the table.It feels like I've been wanting to read one of Sarah Vowell's books forever. I'd also heard that she is great in audio, so when I realized that The Wordy Shipmates is available in that format, I decided to...
Abby the Librarian, August 1, 2011
...Jacob De Zoet clocks in at 19 hours... and I enjoyed every minute of it."Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell, read by Sarah Vowell (with a bunch of guests), reviewed by Carin at Caroline Bookbinder. Carin says, "I know some people find Ms. Vowell's voice...
chasing bawa, August 1, 2011
...club♣ The Corrections by Jonathan Franzan - been on my book shelf for a year♣ Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell - about the first European settlements in the US♣ The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West♣ US...
MediaMedia | Media, July 27, 2011
...gears, not an algorithm. So far they’ve offered up books like Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test, Sarah Vowell’s Unfamiliar Fishes, and David Levithan’s The Lover’s Dictionary, each with links to other interviews, reviews, and, of course, ways to...
Nieman Journalism Lab, July 27, 2011
...gears, not an algorithm. So far they’ve offered up books like Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test , Sarah Vowell’s Unfamiliar Fishes , and David Levithan’s The Lover’s Dictionary , each with links to other interviews, reviews, and, of course, ways...
Book Group Buzz - Discussion of Book Clubs, Readin, July 15, 2011
...on the bench for this meeting, but her travel tales mixed in perfectly with our discussion. Connie had Sarah Vowell’s latest book Unfamiliar Fishes . Vowell brings a smart-alecky voice to history, and this time she turns her attention on the...