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Garrison Keillor Roundup
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Garrison Keillor, host and creator of A Prairie Home Companion , the infamous advice columnist, Mr. Blu, and the tireless author of numerous bestselling books, is known for his satirical take on mid-western America. Read on to find out more about the books that built Lake Wobegon.
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Lake Wobegon fans will recognize Keillor's familiar voice in Love Me, a story about sin, forgiveness, fame, big cities, and small towns. What might come as a surprise is the sex. Larry Wyler, a famous novelist struggling to write his next big book, is living the high life with a job at The New Yorker along with sexy New York women to take his mind off his wife back in Minnesota. But the good times don't last long, and when it all comes crashing down, Wyler finds himself appealing to Minnesotans for help. To read more, click here. |
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"To scholars of the Ojibway tongue, 'Wobegon' or
'Wa-be-gan-tan-han' means 'the place where [we] waited all day in the rain,' but some translated the word as simply 'patience.'" In Lake Wobegon Days—the first in a series of books that put a tiny town settled by duped New Englanders on the map—Keillor chronicles life in small-town America with his quirky and somewhat sly sense of humour. Click here to read more. |
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In Wobegon Boy, we catch up with John Tollefson, who left Lake Wobegon a decade ago to manage a public radio station in New York. Far from his claustrophobic home town, John blossoms into a suave New Yorker who throws good dinner parties, consumes fine wine, and beds a lovely historian named Alida Freeman. But compared to his great-grandfather, a forefather of Lake Wobegon, John’s life feels empty. Only by returning home does he realize what’s missing. Click here to read more. |
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Four years after Wobegon Boy, Garrison Keillor returns to the sleepy Minnesota hamlet in Lake Wobegon Summer 1956. This time, fourteen-year-old Gary takes centre-stage as he tries to come to grips with his raging hormones (and his not unrelated obsession with his slightly older cousin, Kate) amongst the Sanctified Brethen of Lake Wobegon. Click here for details. |
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A good poem doesn’t have to be cryptic. In fact, Garrison Keillor argues the opposite in the Introduction to Good Poems, a collection of 294 poems selected and arranged by the author himself. These poems, Keillor says, tell a story. All have been tested on the airways and all succeed in cutting through the static of everyday life. They stop us as we butter our morning toast and remind us why simple poetry is beautiful. To read more, click here. |
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