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The remarkable thing about this book, for Sarah Vowell fans, is that it takes place during a pivotal year of her life, and she spends a lot of time unhappily thrashing about for new opportunities. The subject is radio in 1995, but the central character is her, and the most interesting aspect is the colliision between 1995 pop culture and her professional worries and personal opinions. I'm not sure how enjoyable this book would be for people who don't like the author or don't remember the year 1995 vividly like I do, but I thought it was one of her most unique books; more free-flowing than her essays and travelogues, but an unexpected storyline emerges, a story of the kind that I believe only happens to people when they're in their mid-twenties and life changes on them. The way she hates Garrison Keillor and Linda Werthimer at the beginning of the book is nicely ironic, and an entry in November where she sits in on the editing of a new show called "This American Life" is downright Anakin Skywalkeresque. The other highlight is her account of a radio special on Kurt Cobain's death--the special is lame, but her attempts to wring meaning from it are extremely touching (especially when she drags out a quote from an account of a depression in Wisconsin from her metaphor-obsessed mind.) This is not a teenage Sarah Vowell like some of the other reviews claim; this is a mid-twenties Sarah Vowell, and for people who want to explore what that's like, this is the book.