Today is the 40th birthday of humorist, essayist, and contributor to more than three dozen episodes of This American Life. Sarah Vowell (books by this author) was born and raised in Muskogee, Oklahoma (1969).
Her essay collection Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World (2000) starts with a piece called "Shooting Dad," which begins: "If you were passing by the house where I grew up during my teenage years and it happened to be before Election Day, you wouldn't have needed to come inside to see that it was a house divided. You could have looked at the Democratic campaign poster in the upstairs window and the Republican one in the downstairs window and seen our home for the Civil War battleground it was. I'm not saying who was the Democrat or who was the Republican — my father or I — but I will tell you that I have never subscribed to Guns & Ammo, that I did not plaster the family vehicle with National Rifle Association stickers, and that hunter's orange was never my color."
Vowell writes op-eds for The New York Times and has occasionally filled in for columnist Maureen Dowd. Her books include Assassination Vacation (2005), The Wordy Shipmates(2008), and The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2003).
She said, "Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.
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