Sarah Vowell talked about her book [The Wordy Shipmates] (Riverhead; October 7, 2008). In this book Sarah Vowell, the author of several books including [The Partly Cloudy Patriot] and ...

In her new book, The Wordy Shipmates, one of her more outrageous parallels compares the Pequot war, in which 700 Indians were murdered in Mystic Fort, ...

The author of five books has traded the essayistic chunks and chapters that formed the... 'The Wordy Shipmates,' by Sarah Vowell SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell Riverhead Books, 272 pp., $25.95. Quick show of hands: Who's all hot to read a new book about the Puritans? Anyone?

Sarah Vowell’s newest novel about the Puritans’ stateside adventures, however, is a pleasant anomaly in the catalogue of history books about 17th century New Englanders.