Sarah Vowell is fifty flavors of short, wry awesome: this fact is proved by science; religion; NPR; The NYT Best Seller list; Laws of Irony; and the bajillion or so Vowell-worshipers who packed ...

MOORHEAD - Knowing Sarah Vowell's dry wit and self-effacing sense of humor helps you decipher her answer to the question, "What are you up to?" Speaking from her New York home she says, "I'm kind of a ...

Her trademark voice registers as a bulletin of tart-tongued whimsy for fans of National Public Radio shows such as "This American Life." And in another subculture, she is the voice of teen superhero ...

Sarah Vowell, read by the author with Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, John Hodgman, Catherine Keener, Edward Norton, Keanu Reeves, Paul Rudd, Maya Rudolph, and John Slattery. Simon & Schuster Audio, ...

Leave it to Sarah Vowell to unravel the most tight-laced of American archetypes: the New England Puritan. In "The Wordy Shipmates," Vowell's latest romp through U.S. history, the wisecracking essayist ...

Best-selling author Sarah Vowell, perhaps most widely known for her contributions to National Public Radio's "This American Life," comes to the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College at 7:30 p.m ...

In this crash course on the fledgling nation’s teenaged French general, undoubtedly the only American Revolution narrative to offhandedly drop a Ferris Bueller reference, Vowell (Unfamiliar Fishes) ...

“It’s kind of cute when mainland folks discover that Hawaii’s history is more interesting than they thought it would be,” said Burl Burlingame in the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. NPR personality Sarah ...

The Michael J. Colligan History Project welcomes best-selling author Sarah Vowell to Parrish Auditorium on Monday, October 21 at 7:00 p.m. Vowell will discuss the connections between the American past ...

PORT TOWNSEND —Shortly after arriving in her new home, 11-year-old Sarah Vowell watched her dad leap out of his chair and grab a BB gun. He’d heard a noise, so he ran outside and found the source.

Sarah Vowell’s new book, Unfamiliar Fishes, will be released March 22nd. It’s a history of the republic of Hawaii, from the missionaries to Barack Obama’s inauguration. In this amazingly designed book ...

As promised in the Stars section of today's Post-Standard, here are some notebook leftovers from my recent telephone interview with Sarah Vowell, who'll be in Syracuse this week to speak in the ...