Meet the Author: Sarah Vowell

About this event

The Broader Bookshelf Reading Challenge encourages readers to expand their bookshelves and seek out new authors and challenging subjects. Ms. Vowell will speak about her book Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, which responds to the 2026 Broader Bookshelf prompt "Read a book about the American Revolution," as well as the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The author talk will be moderated by Dr. Evan Faulkenbury. This is an after-hours event and registration is not required. The library will close as usual at 6:00 p.m. and will reopen at 6:30 p.m. for attendees of Meet the Author: Sarah Vowell. For those that might not be able to join the event in person, this event will be live-streamed on the Richland Library YouTube channel. About the Author: Sarah Vowell is the New York Times bestselling author of seven nonfiction books on American history and culture, including Assassination Vacation, The Wordy Shipmates, and Unfamiliar Fishes. By examining the connections between the American past and present, she offers personal, often humorous accounts of American history as well as current events and politics. Her book, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, explores both ideas and the battles of the American Revolution, especially the patriot founders' alliance with France as personified by the teenage volunteer in George Washington's army, the Marquis de Lafayette. Vowell's thirty years as a journalist and columnist began in the freewheeling atmosphere of the weekly newspapers of the 1990s, including The Village Voice, the Twin Cities' City Pages and San Francisco Weekly, where she was the pop music columnist. An original contributor to McSweeney's, she has worked as a columnist for Salon and Time, a reviewer for Spin, a reporter for GQ, and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, where she covered politics, history, education and life in Montana. She was a contributing editor for the public radio show This American…

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