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Many in the audience were fans of Vowell??s other historical accounts as well as her radio work, but, as Boston native John Kelly said, “‘The Wordy Shipmates’ has a definite local flavor...
...Vowell, a humorist and contributing editor for public radio’s “This American Life,” is a unique and moving voice in American culture, whose incisive and intelligent writing is rarely surpassed but often matched by her ubiquitous sense of irony. What makes Vowell??s brand of humor impervious to any shifts is the fact that her best work—“The Partly Cloudy Patriot,” “Assassination Vacation” and her latest, “The Wordy Shipmates?...
...they don’t pay me to make them.”The sudden rash of adhesive-based accoutrements doesn’t constitute a new direction for the humorist and author so much as a means of putting off his next book. Rakoff and fellow humorist Sarah Vowell??both contributors to Chicago Public Radio’s “This American Life”—will be reading selections of their work tonight at Sanders Theater as a part of the Celebrity Series of Boston.“It will be a bacchanal...
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