vowell

Just after finishing up my entries on our road trip across three states in order to see probably my favourite fiction author, I saw someone had posted to one of those communities that I had subscribed to years ago and forgotten about because nobody ever posted to them anymore, a note about Sarah Vowell's (probably my favourite non-fiction author) new book coming out this week, and my immediate two thoughts were:

1. I wonder if she's going to be on the Daily Show this week and
2. I wonder if her book tour will take her to Washington?

A book author will do all the media she can when releasing a book so I guess this is not surprising. Vowell mostly reads her own audio books and then gets a cast of famous vocal talent to read the quotes of historical figures and museum curators that she runs across, and there is almost always one or two people from The Daily Show or The Colbert Report in the cast, so there is obviously a bit of rapport going on there. The efforts she puts into her audio books is the reason that I listen to them instead of reading her books. It almost feels like I am still listening to her on This American Life.

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