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Go West: “I’ve always wanted to see Big Sur,” says Sarah Vowell, New York Times best-selling author of five books, “because when I was a kid I liked Jack Kerouac.”

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Author, humorist and observer Sarah Vowell helps us laugh at history and ourselves.

The first thing one might notice about Sarah Vowell is her voice. It’s set – despite her age of 41 – at the slightly lispy register of a bored, underwhelmed middle-school girl. That voice was ...

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