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Sarah Vowell's Books
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The Wordy ShipmatesPublic radio personality Sarah Vowell and special guest stars explore our nation’s rich past, blending historical fact, humor, and commentary.Read More -
Assassination VacationSarah Vowell takes us on a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and how they have been used for fun, profit, and political advantage.Read More
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The Partly Cloudy PatriotSarah Vowell travels through the American past and, in doing so, investigates the dusty, bumpy roads of her own life. In this insightful and funny...Read More
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Take the CannoliIn her moving and wickedly funny collection, Sarah Vowell tackles identity, politics, religion, art, and history with biting humor.Read More
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Intellictual Conservative, October 15, 2009
...a major bookstore in Manhattan, only at their online sites. But one can easily find Assassination Nation by Sarah Vowell in Manhattan's major bookstores. In contrast, this book about the assassination of three Republican Presidents and visits to historic...
PublishersWeekly.com, October 15, 2009
...2, 2009 Okay, I must confess: I'm late for the breakfast with Mary Karr, Anita Shreve and Sarah Vowell. And ... » VIEW ALL BLOGS Podcasts » VIEW ALL PODCASTS Photos Images from this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, October 14-18. PW covers 2009 Images from...
PublishersWeekly.com, October 14, 2009
...2, 2009 Okay, I must confess: I'm late for the breakfast with Mary Karr, Anita Shreve and Sarah Vowell. And ... » VIEW ALL BLOGS Podcasts » VIEW ALL PODCASTS Photos Images from this year's Frankfurt Book Fair, October 14-18. PW covers 2009 Images from...
Daily Vanguard, October 14, 2009
...s Books at Cedar Hills 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. Wed, 7 p.m. Free It might be Sarah Vowell?s unusual voice that grabs your attention, but it?s her wit and intelligence that will keep you hooked. The writer, known for her knowledge of American history...
Boston Globe, September 8, 2009
...big about America. Its big all right. Two hundred essays! Hundreds of cool contributors, such as Camille Paglia, Sarah Vowell, Walter Mosley, and Howell Raines. And theyre not scared to tackle the big questions. Does America even exist? Marcus and...
Seven Days Vermont, August 19, 2009
...Harrison Articles in tech Tags It?s published original interviews with Christopher Hitchens, Jonathan Safran Foer, Barbara Ehrenreich, Sarah Vowell and John Cusack, to name a few. But Identity Theory doesn?t come between glossy covers. Its staff of...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, August 12, 2009
...Rachel Kushner - Kalamazoo College The Translator by Daoud Hari - Mars Hill College The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell - Madaille College The World is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman - University of Louisiana,...
ReadingGroupGuides.com, August 11, 2009
...Rachel Kushner - Kalamazoo College The Translator by Daoud Hari - Mars Hill College The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell - Madaille College The World is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman - University of Louisiana,...
Bloomington Sun-Current, May 24, 2009
...Tehran: A Memoir in Books,' which has been translated into 32 languages. - March 11 and 12 - Sarah Vowell, a contributor to 'This American Life' and author of 'Assassination Vacation,' the story of a road trip to tourist sites devoted to murdered...
Ramsey County Sun-Focus, May 21, 2009
...Tehran: A Memoir in Books,' which has been translated into 32 languages. - March 11 and 12 - Sarah Vowell, a contributor to 'This American Life' and author of 'Assassination Vacation,' the story of a road trip to tourist sites devoted to murdered...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 15, 2009
...a veil. 'Reading Lolita' has been translated into 32 languages and has won many awards. MARCH 11-12, 2010: Sarah Vowell, author of 'Assassination Vacation' (an account of a road trip to visit tourist sites honoring slain presidents) and 'The Wordy...
Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2009
...items, although there's a twist. This time, the magazine has asked people you've heard of ? Sarah Vowell, Chuck D, David Simon, Susan Orlean, Patton Oswalt, Tom Robbins, Dave Eggers, Andy Samberg, Miranda July, Jonathan Lethem, Chuck Klosterman, Andrew...
Mankato Freepress, March 1, 2009
...relationships with men (and a dog and a boy) has received excellent reviews from renowned writers Richard Ford, Sarah Vowell and Ayelet Waldman, among various others. The collection of stories began with an essay she wrote about her son, The Boy, which...
Arbiter Online, February 23, 2009
...I recently saw Sarah Vowell, my favorite author, give a reading in Olympia, Wash. When people found out I planned a mini-vacation to see her I got: 'You are driving more than 500 miles...
NWI Times, February 22, 2009
...St., second floor meeting room. Call to register. FYI: (219) 763-1508 BOOK DISCUSSION | Schererville 'Assassination Vacation' by Sarah Vowell will be discussed at Between the Lines meets at 7 p.m. Feb. 25 and 10:15 a.m. Feb. 26 at the Lake County Public...
The Olympian, February 12, 2009
...a few people gathered in a bookstore. That is, if you didn't reckon on the superpowers of Sarah Vowell, an author and commentator and the voice of Violet in 'The Incredibles.' Vowell, whose voice is as distinctive as what she has to say, will speak...
Suburban Journals, February 11, 2009
...CommentNo comments posted. Regular on public radio to speak on contemporary America Well-known commentator and author Sarah Vowell will lecture at McKendree University next month. Vowell will speak of her observations on subjects ranging from politics to...
Globe and Mail, January 23, 2009
...” There's much more stuff like this to be found in this slender but meaty volume, and Sarah Vowell provides a charming and funny introduction, very much in the Hornbyan vein. So thanks, Nick, for the ideas and the passion and the fun. I miss you...
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, January 4, 2009
...Sarah Vowell has some unconventional thoughts about the Puritans -- not the Pilgrims who sailed from England on the Mayflower and ended up in Plymouth, but the other Puritans, the ones...
Biz Journals, December 22, 2008
...York Times-bestselling and award-winning authors, including Khaled Hosseini , Junot Diaz , Kathleen Norris , James McBride , Daniel Pink , Nick Hornby , Sarah Vowell , Shalom Auslander , Dinaw Mengestu and Aleksander Hemon , among others. Viking...
Nashville Business Journal, December 22, 2008
...York Times-bestselling and award-winning authors, including Khaled Hosseini, Junot Diaz, Kathleen Norris, James McBride, Daniel Pink, Nick Hornby, Sarah Vowell, Shalom Auslander, Dinaw Mengestu and Aleksander Hemon, among others. Viking Children's Books,...
Longview Daily News, December 21, 2008
...her books are beautifully written novels with deeper philosophical questions that are worth anyones time. Wordy Shipmates, by Sarah Vowell. Vowell is a wonderful writer with a great sense of the absurd who turns her talents towards the Pilgrims, learning...
Vancouver Sun, December 20, 2008
...THE WORDY SHIPMATES BY SARAH VOWELL Riverhead Books/Penguin Canada, 251 pages ($28.50) Vowell ventures into historians' territory. Chuck Russell, Vancouver Sun, Files Email to a friendPrinter friendly - - - The American Puritans who...
Kansas City Star, December 20, 2008
...of Star readers has discussed 62 books, from Kingsolver to J.M. Coetzee, Zadie Smith, Amy Bloom and Sarah Vowell to Kansas City’s Whitney Terrell and Missouri’s Daniel Woodrell. In the first few months of 2009, we’ll tackle...
Houston Chronicle, December 12, 2008
...to being driven around. That's about it, at least for the first few days. I am reading Sarah Vowell's In fact, it's enough to make me declare it a MeMo Book Club must-read. You'll laugh, you'll cry, sometimes in the same sentence. Posted by...
Honolulu Advertiser, December 10, 2008
...Sheridan carolyn: December 9th, 2008 at 2:45 pm Just finished Assassination Vacation and The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell. I read them both on a recent trip to New England and was thrilled to find John Winthrop?s grave in King?s cemetary in the...
New York Post, December 7, 2008
...a self-described 'serious obsessive reader' who needs no direction at all. On Friday, he'll join Parker Posey, Sarah Vowell and others in a reading from 'State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America' at The New School. (He wrote about New York State.)...
Cookeville Herald-Citizen, December 7, 2008
...book. Suggested books ?Exit Ghost? by Philip Roth, ?My Lucky Dog? by Mellon Tytell, ?The Wordy Shipmates? by Sarah Vowell, ?America America? by Ethan Canin, ?Williams-Sonoma Christmas,? ?Rome 1960? by David Maraniss, ?The Middle...
EMedia Wire, December 4, 2008
...and revealing about each state. Dave Eggers' riff on the Illinois license plate slogan is a literary standout; Sarah Vowell proffers an inimitable history lesson on how Montanans 'have always tended to stick out'; and Alison Bechdel's luminous strip on...
South DaCola, October 7, 2009
...W ordy Shipmates is a masterpiece ....
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, October 6, 2009
...my job has been the online component." Jezebel takes a look at a cute moment between author Sarah Vowell and Jon Stewart . Having a hard time balancing your day-job and writing life? The Millions has a heartfelt essay about the struggle. Finally, a...
BuzzUp.net, October 6, 2009
...th… more Theodore Rex blog posts … Tweets on Theodore Rex #HotTrends: demi moore bush pic theodore rex sarah vowell jared allen unabated to the quarterback photosketch puma punku oti.. - October 06, 2009 Theodore Rex: The Best of the Worst - -...
Stuff Christians Like, September 24, 2009
...said... Gone With The Wind. SEPTEMBER 12, 2009 6:35 AM Chris Hill said... Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell. SEPTEMBER 12, 2009 1:56 PM wheresmycow said... I'd probably just go for a Pride and Prejudice sequel SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 9:05 AM...
post.madison.com - Culture posts, August 24, 2009
... Sarah Vowell on the road [Memorial Union Theatre @ 7:30pm, 2/21] hastings | 2/20/2007 10:43 pm | stumbling out the dairy bar From Sarah Vowell's Take the Cannoli...
post.madison.com - People posts, August 20, 2009
... Sarah Vowell on the road [Memorial Union Theatre @ 7:30pm, 2/21] hastings | 2/20/2007 10:43 pm | stumbling out the dairy bar From Sarah Vowell's Take the Cannoli...
7: Blogs | Movies and More, August 5, 2009
...22, just a day before his reading at Auntie’s Bookstore. Here are some of the pre-publication blurbs. Sarah Vowell: “A comic and graceful parable of marriage and money.” Ben Fountain: “Who would think financial disaster could be so funny? But in...
biblical theo(b)logy, June 9, 2009
...So I am about halfway through " The Wordy Shipmates " by Sarah Vowell. I decided to pick up this title on the recommendation of a good friend, Andrew Pack (starting a church this Fall). This was a real treat to kick off...
The Denton Public Library, June 9, 2009
...Ok, I’m on a BIG Sarah Vowell kick these days. I think I must’ve listened to her on NPR’s This American Life back in the late ’90s-early 2000s when I had a car that...
Literary License (short reviews, real opinions), April 20, 2009
...by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (The Dial Press) Best Conversation Starter (Nonfiction): The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell (Riverhead) Best Author Discovery: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Ecco) Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book...
The Chick Manifesto, April 12, 2009
...Walker Violet on the Runway - Melissa Walker W Wishful Drinking - Carrie Fisher The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell XYZ...
Jacket Copy, April 1, 2009
...found items, although there's a twist. This time, the magazine has asked people you've heard of — Sarah Vowell, Chuck D, David Simon, Susan Orlean, Patton Oswalt, Tom Robbins, Dave Eggers, Andy Samberg, Miranda July, Jonathan Lethem, Chuck...
In a few words, or less, March 10, 2009
...Monsters: Stories by Kelly Link Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell...
ECTOPLASMOSIS!, February 17, 2009
...Let me say right from the start that I am a huge Sarah Vowell fan. Her book Assassination Vacation , from which this is excerpted, was the first by her that I read and from there I’ve devoured everything she has written. Her...
alan news, February 12, 2009
...No also admitted he watches way too Towers." Of treason and reason much television but said it Sarah Vowell was at no loss for doesn't do what it was designed words Oct. 28 at BookPeople, as for, which is to educate and befits the author of a...
.any day a beautiful change., February 5, 2009
...I’m thinking about rationing it because I love it so much. My colleague Bart calls her “the Sarah Vowell of preaching”. This woman can take a Bible passage and pick it apart and then put it back together again. She can own up to all the weirdness...
Authorlink News Alert, January 27, 2009
...York Times-bestselling and award-winning authors, including Khaled Hosseini, Junot Díaz, Kathleen Norris, James McBride, Daniel Pink, Nick Hornby, Sarah Vowell, Shalom Auslander, Dinaw Mengestu and Aleksander Hemon, among others. Penguin Group (USA)...
PrawfsBlawg, January 26, 2009
...to contribute, "A little better than I expected. I only barfed once." And does anyone know Sarah Vowell's address?...
It's All Fun & Games..., January 26, 2009
...and dog-eared and notated that it's criminal. Have you read, Savage Beauty ? You should. 4. Sarah Vowell, Assassination Vacation - History at it's most personal and relatable. My son had a report due on Abraham Lincoln and, while all the other...
RevThom, January 7, 2009
...I am glad that you are here. Let us worship together. Reading This morning’s reading is from Sarah Vowell’s fifth book, entitled The Wordy Shipmates . Her name may be familiar to you even if you haven’t read any of her books. She is a commentator on...
Zubon Book Reviews, December 31, 2008
...by William Shakespeare Leviathan on the Right by Michael Tanner Candide by Voltaire The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams The Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny 2: not worth reading (skip it) A...
RevThom, December 31, 2008
...and Sean Wilsey entitled State by State . Also on my reading list for 2009: books by Chris Adrian, Sarah Vowell, Nick Hornby, Billy Collins, Michael Chabon, Deb Olin Unferth, and more volumes of McSweeney's. Books Finished: Total pages read: 0 # posted...
RevThom, December 31, 2008
...and Sean Wilsey entitled State by State . Also on my reading list for 2009: books by Chris Adrian, Sarah Vowell, Nick Hornby, Billy Collins, Michael Chabon, Deb Olin Unferth, and more volumes of McSweeney's. Books Finished: Total pages read: 0 # posted...
The Millions, December 16, 2008
...the Toronto International Authors Festival could also be linked by this same theme. I've already written about Sarah Vowell on the Puritan immigrants to the Massachusetts Bay colony in the 1630s, and then Junot Díaz , together with Rawi Hage, speaking...
VickieVictoria, December 15, 2008
...in a literary manner that would warrant a high five from the guy, my literary girl crush on Sarah Vowell makes me want to reach a point where we could sit in a coffeeshop on insightful essays and trade quips about Nick Hornby. Because then I’d know Nick...
Overlooked, December 15, 2008
...1. Watch Gossip Girl . A LOT of it. 2. Go vegan . 3. Attend readings by David Sedaris or Sarah Vowell . 4. Surprise her with a cell phone covered in Swarovski crystals . Just because she claims to hate Paris Hilton (that slut!) doesn't mean that she...
MeMo, December 12, 2008
...to being driven around. That's about it, at least for the first few days. I am reading Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates , about the Puritan literary heritage in America. Sounds like dry stuff, except it couldn't be more not. It's funny and touching. In...
Renee's Book Addiction, December 2, 2008
... Yesterday, I tried to make inroads on my book club pick, Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. It’s actually the book I’m presenting (the presenter offers 3 selections which are put to a vote.) I love her geeky wit. She blends history with pop...
Literary Kicks, November 30, 2008
...Lessons In Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam . Virginia Heffernan is simply vicious to Sarah Vowell’s chatty rumination on our Pilgrim heritage, The Wordy Shipmates , which she considers marred by “sarcasm, flat indie-girl...
PhiloBiblos, November 30, 2008
...David Liss' The Whiskey Rebels is reviewed by Kevin Baker in the Washington Post . - Virginia Heffernen reviews Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates in the NYTimes . - Also in the Times , David Gates reviews Toni Morrison's new novel, A Mercy . - Richard...
The Revealer, November 30, 2008
...the NYT Book Review flag Virginia Heffernan's use of the term "Pentecostalist" to describe the religion of Sarah Vowell's youth as an anachronistic variation on "Pentecostal"? Does this oversight shed light on the Book Review's...
