Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World

Sarah Vowell is an author, humorist and social observer best known for her monologues and documentaries for public radio's "This American Life."As a critic and reporter, her writing has appeared in Esquire, GQ, Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, Spin and McSweeney's. As a columnist, she has covered education for Time; American culture for Salon.com; and pop music for the San Francisco Weekly, for which she won a 1996 Music Journalism Award. She has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Nightline. She is the author of Radio On: A Listener's Diary; Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World, and Partly Cloudy Patriot, which will be published in Fall 2002. Booksigning and reception will follow.