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Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) [2] is an American historian, [3] author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress. She has written seven nonfiction books on American history and culture.
Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World is a collection of essays by Sarah Vowell, originally published by Simon & Schuster in 2000. In it, she discusses everything from her obsession with The Godfather (the title of the book comes from a line from Godfather caporegime Peter Clemenza), music lessons, and the intersection of Michigan and Wacker in Chicago to her experience retracing her ...
Books by American historian, author, journalist, essayist and social commentator Sarah Vowell. Pages in category "Books by Sarah Vowell" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Assassination Vacation is a 2005 book by Sarah Vowell, in which she travels around the United States researching the assassinations of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield and William McKinley. [1]
Marah is an American rock and roll band that formed in the early 1990s and is closely associated with the cities of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Brooklyn, New York.The band is known for its intense live performances, classic rock production style, and association with authors Nick Hornby [1] and Sarah Vowell and musicians Bruce Springsteen and Steve Earle.
Radio On: A Listener's Diary (1997) is the first book by Sarah Vowell.In the book, she writes about listening to the radio for an entire year, switching between rock stations, talk radio, and NPR. [1]
When folk music giant Woody Guthrie died in 1967, he left behind written lyrics for hundreds of unrecorded songs. Decades later, his daughter Nora began drafting a new generation of musicians to ...
But Ms. Vowell's determination to render history user-friendly often feels reductive and condescending, and her contemporary analogies can be strained." [ 4 ] However, in the New York Times Book Review , Hawaii resident Kaui Hart Hemmings praised the author thus: "Vowell deftly summarizes complex events and significant upheavals, reducing them ...