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Garrison Keillor
In Cheerfulness, veteran radio host and author Garrison Keillor reflects on a simple virtue that can help us in this stressful and sometimes gloomy era. Drawing on personal anecdotes from…
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1997 Grammy® Award nominee 1996 Listen Up Award–Best Humor Enjoy the best of Garrison Keillor’s comic fables from A Prairie Home Companion, all about true love and other tribulations, brought…
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Marcia Songer
A study of the influences and literary accomplishments of one of America’s most beloved storytellers, Garrison Keillor. While acknowledging his career highlights, the book supports Keillor’s own view of himself…
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Judith Yaross Lee
A pleasurable look at the comic imagination of Lake Wobegon’s favourite son and contemporary America’s favourite humourist.
Prairie Home Comedy and Garrison Keillor’s Comedy Theater in one fun-filled gift package.
With the warmth and humor we’ve come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story.
Bestselling author and humorist Garrison Keillor returns to one of America’s most beloved mythical towns, beset by a contagion of alarming candor. A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people…
The celebrated radio host presents his first collection of poetry, featuring his reflections on daily life, love, politics, and religion in verse that reflects his characteristic humor and insight.
From America’s favorite storyteller, here are 18 new tales of Lake Wobegon, hand-picked from live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.
On July 6, 1974, about a dozen people made their way to the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in St. Paul for the first broadcast of a new radio…
Recorded during his sold-out solo performances at Yale Repertory Theater in April 2002, this audio presentation features the host of NPR’s Prairie Home Companion on his own, with readings, comedy…
I think people have an absolute ear for what is true, Garrison Keillor told an interviewer. It is this rare and marvelous sense of truth-of laughter, joy, and compassion and…
A short comic novel about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown during a blizzard. A wealthy and depressed man (thanks to the economy…
A short comic novel about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown during a blizzard.
The first anthology of original poems by the host of THE WRITER’S ALMANAC and A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION
These new stories from Lake Wobegon monologues are grouped by theme. Fertility includes The Krebsbach’s Vacation, Prophet, The Six Labors of Father Wilmer, and Fertility. 1 CD.
Includes Aunt Ellie, Duke’s 25th, and You’re Not the Only One. 1 CD.
These news from Lake Wobegon monologues are grouped by theme. Rhubarb includes Rhubarb, Sweet Corn, The Sun’s Gonna Shine Someday, and Yellow Ribbon.
Includes Blue Devils, Nostalgia, O Christmas Tree, Pageant, and Messy Shoes. 1 CD.
This complete original radio broadcast of the third Farewell (June 10, 1989) features boogie piano player Butch Thompson, Robin and Linda Williams doing their show-stopping Mavis and Marvin Smiley routine…
Here’s the last weekly live broadcast that started it all–the glorious tradition of saying goodbye. 2 CDs.
Recorded live on June 16, 1990 at the University of Iowa, this original radio broadcast features News From Lake Wobegon and great guest performances from Jean Redpath, Peter Ostroushko, Greg…
This festive collection is a nostalgic trip through five years of America’s favorite radio show. Commercials for Powdermilk Biscuits, Jack’s Deep Valley Bed and more introduce songs and sketches like…
A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Hope contains Truckstop ; Smokes ; The Perils of Spring ; Let Us Pray. .
A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Faith contains Rotten Apples ; O Death ; The Wise Men ; A Trip to Grand Rapids .
Includes the Six-Minute Hamlet, tributes to Hawthorne and Kerouac and Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an M.F.A. scam, Garrison Keillor’s recollection of growing up bookish in a…
It’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town…. Each week, more than four million radio listeners hear these words, and settle in for some old-fashioned, up-to-the-minute storytelling…
