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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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Excerpt 1 from The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Dec 07, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Assassination Vacation
Aug 31, 2012
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
Mar 02, 2011
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Assassination Vacation has won an award
Jun 24, 2009
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Assassination Vacation
Mar 19, 2009
The Partly Cloudy Patriot is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
Assassination Vacation is now available in eAudio
Nov 10, 2008
The Wordy Shipmates will be released on October 07, 2008 in Compact Disk
Oct 07, 2008
The Wordy Shipmates is now available in Compact Disk
Oct 07, 2008
The Wordy Shipmates will be released on October 07, 2008 in eAudio
Oct 07, 2008
The Wordy Shipmates is now available in eAudio
Oct 07, 2008

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Buffalo News, April 1, 2013
...Diane Ackerman February: American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham March: Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell April: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann May: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson June: The Girl...
Nashville City Paper, March 29, 2013
...our “greenest state in the land of the free.” Born on a Mountaintop has been rightfully compared with Sarah Vowell’s Assassination Vacation and Andrew Ferguson’s Land of Lincoln and is a fine example of what might be called road-trip history:...
Schenectady Daily Gazette, March 22, 2013
...of Key West. I learned about Dry Tortugas from the 2005 travelogue “Assassination Vacation,” in which the writer Sarah Vowell travels around the U.S. visiting sites related to the assassinations of presidents Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley and...
College Heights Herald, March 21, 2013
...research that led to the books. Hood River, Ore. graduate student Merrie Richardson was particularly interested in author Sarah Vowell's speech.  “I was interested in Sarah Vowell’s work because I had heard her on This American Life and I’m...
Imperial Valley Press, January 29, 2013
...of Ordinary Murders" by Conor Brady 3. "Another Man's Moccasins" by Craig Johnson 4. "Unfamiliar Fishes" by Sarah Vowell...
Chicago Tribune, January 25, 2013
...of Ordinary Murders" by Conor Brady 3. "Another Man's Moccasins" by Craig Johnson 4. "Unfamiliar Fishes" by Sarah Vowell 5. "Devil in a Blue Dress" by Walter Mosley ? Eileen K., East Lansing, Mich. Since I'm championing literary fiction this week,...
SmartPlanet, January 18, 2013
...My dad wasn’t in the army. That’s the first question people ask when they hear how often I moved when I was a kid. My dad had a corporate job. And at the top of many industries, the corporate ladder narrows to New York. When I was nine, we moved to a...
Dallas Voice, May 31, 2013
...the air. Imagine it without the nasal drawl of David Sedaris, or the pinched, kewpie doll squeal of Sarah Vowell. “A kewpie doll who’ll punch you in the face,” Glass says, quickly adding: “ That’s not a bad quality! That’s an awesome...
Prospect, May 30, 2013
...and in more concrete ways as well, helping to launch the careers of writers like David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell, and drawing attention to more serious stories with its investigative reporting (such as the 2011 case of a Georgia law court which seemed to...
Moviefone, May 28, 2013
...the perfect performer to play a tiny, bratty, outcast speed demon in a make-believe world made of candy. Sarah Vowell (The Incredibles) Sarah Vowell (The Incredibles) How did Sarah Vowell go from author/historian/radio commentator to cartoon...
Moviefone, May 28, 2013
...the perfect performer to play a tiny, bratty, outcast speed demon in a make-believe world made of candy. Sarah Vowell (The Incredibles) Sarah Vowell (The Incredibles) How did Sarah Vowell go from author/historian/radio commentator to cartoon...
Knox Pages, May 21, 2013
...summer vacation season begins, the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County will discuss “Assassination Vacation,” by Sarah Vowell at its next adult book discussion on Tuesday, May 21, 7:00 p.m. at the main library, 201 N. Mulberry Street. The...
Knox Pages, May 21, 2013
...summer vacation season begins, the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County will discuss “Assassination Vacation,” by Sarah Vowell at its next adult book discussion on Tuesday, May 21, 7:00 p.m. at the main library, 201 N. Mulberry Street. The...
Knox Pages, May 21, 2013
...summer vacation season begins, the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County will discuss “Assassination Vacation,” by Sarah Vowell at its next adult book discussion on Tuesday, May 21, 7:00 p.m. at the main library, 201 N. Mulberry Street. The...