Why write—or read—a book about early American settlers? It’s a fair question, and one trenchantly addressed in the early pages of Sarah Vowell’s The Wordy Shipmates: “The country [we] live in is ...

You know Sarah Vowell as an NPR contributor and the voice of Violet Parr in The Incredibles. But she’s also a pretty awesome writer. The author of Assassination Vacation and The Wordy Shipmates brings ...

After suffering through years of history lessons about the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and John Winthrop’s role in shaping his “city upon a hill,” one would think that (yet another) novel ...

As Sarah Vowell warns early on in The Wordy Shipmates, “Readers who squirm at microscopic theological differences might be unsuited to read a book about seventeenth-century Christians.” She’s right, ...

At 7 p.m. tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct. 13) Sarah Vowell reads from her book, The Wordy Shipmates at the University District Book Store. The book is a seafaring exploration of the pilgrims, with their ...