Sarah Vowell

Jan 8, 2025 | hppr.org | Charles Jones |Sarah Vowell

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell, 2008Travel back in time with author Sarah Vowell to explore the Puritans journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop's "city upon a hill"—a shining example, a "city that cannot be hid." We often claim to be a Puritan nation, but what does that mean?

Oct 8, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Sarah Vowell

Sorry, a summary is not available for this article at this time. Please try again later. “You had better remove the records,” Secretary of State James Monroe warned President James Madison during the War of 1812 as British troops advanced toward Washington to burn it down. The U.S. government would approach the obvious need to secure and centralize federal records the way it solved a lot of its problems back then: by identifying the issue and then addressing it a minimum of four score years later.

Jan 11, 2024 | shepherd.com | Philip Stone |Robert Harrison |Paul Westover |Sarah Vowell

This was one of the first books that got me thinking critically about ‘dark tourism’. Harrison inspired me to look at how the dead maintain their relations with the living. In turn, the book galvanized my thinking of the many touristic places where the dead cohabit the world of the living. These range from graves, monuments, and memorials, and made me think about how we give the dead a memorialized afterlife.

Jun 29, 2023 | havenmagazines.com | Beth A O’Leary |Richard Grant |Sarah Vowell |Gary Shteyngart

THE ROAD TRIP By Beth O’Leary “The Road Trip” is a fun escapist novel that is perfect for a hot summer day. Two exes, Dylan and Addie, are forced to share a car across Scotland on their way to a friend’s wedding. Sharing the ride are Addie’s sister, Dylan’s toxic best friend, and a random stranger. Told from multiple points of view set in both the present and past, O’Leary has created characters whose backstories are as complex as their relationships.