Sarah Vowell

Survival Kit | May 6, 2010
Sarah Vowell seems like a perfect candidate for a retreat in the woods; she grew up in Montana and Oklahoma, she is part Cherokee, and she’s the daughter of a gunsmith. But she has spent her adult years in cities like San Francisco and Chicago, and she currently lives in New York City. She is a contributing editor for public radio’s This American Life, and the author of the books Radio On, Take the Cannoli, and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. Let’s see what she’s got in her cultural survival kit for a trip back to the wilderness.
Her List:
1. H.W. Janson, History of Art
2. Abraham Lincoln, Selected SpeechPritings (Library of America)
3. Budd Schulberg, What Makes Sammy Run film, video, DVD:
4. Elvis Presley Christmas Special (a.k.a. '68 comeback special)
5. Groundhog Day
6. Buffy the Vampire Slayer complete second season DVD records:
7. Frank Sinatra The Capitol Years
8. Good Vibrations, the Beach Boys boxed set

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