Sarah Vowell talking about The Wordy Shipmates

Author Sarah Vowell discusses her new audiobook The Wordy Shipmates. She talks about the Puritans, including John Winthrop and Roger Williams. She also discusses some of the actors who co-narrate this audiobook with her including Campbell Scott and Peter Dinklage as well as musical contributor Michael Giacchino who also created the music for the TV show Lost and the film, The Incredibles. Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor for NPR's This American Life. She was the voice of Violet Parr in the film The Incredibles, and she wrote several bestselling audiobooks including The Partly Cloudy Patriot and Assassination Vacation.

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[inkonwater]

Thanks.

[thinairpro]

Sarah Vowell; how ironic to post this simplistic critique to show the response an uneducated, irrational boob might have to your well researched and beautifully written book. You perfectly captured the closed-minded, knowledge-fearing caricature that is the antithesis of the Puritans - their complex beliefs and how those beliefs (mis) guided. Thank you for this entertaining and fascinating book, and for poking fun with this silly, meaningless post.

[bennihana123]

One thing I can't stand in nonfiction is when the author insists on forcing themselves into the narrative... I would be legitimately interested in the story she was telling then she goes WAY off topic

[everett12100]

my last name is vowell

[dloser1546]

I can't stand her or this book. Worst flow of reading.

[koolpeep90]

i enjoyed the book a lot.

she writes like she has a.d.d.

but it was still a very interesting read

[silveryngrid]

I read the actual book, and I'd have to argue that even when she talks about things from her own life she does so to illustrate larger points about the Puritans. Maybe you would find Wikipedia to be more your style.

[concretewater87]

clearly you are a little uneducated about what an essay book is supposed to be about. people who read sarah vowell's ESSAY BOOKS do so because they like sarah vowell. yes, she plugs in personal anecdotes as well as opinions but it isnt meant to be a straight history book. if you were a little more intelligent you might have known that going in to it and known what to expect.

sarah vowell is brilliant!