Best Selling Books by Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor makes his long- awaited return to Lake Wobegon with this New York Times bestseller The first new Lake Wobegon novel in seven years is a cause for celebration. And Pontoon is nothing less than a spectacular return to form-replete with a bowling ball-urn, a hot-air balloon, giant duck decoys, a flying Elvis, and, most importantly, Wally''s pontoon boat. As the wedding of the decade approaches (accompanied by wheels of imported cheese and giant shrimp shish kebabs), the good-loving people of Lake Wobegon do what they do best: drive each other slightly crazy.

Radio personality and author Garrison Keillor delights and astounds in this hybrid memoir/poetry collection that combines anecdotes from his childhood and his "A Prairie Home Companion" years with literary limericks, darkly humorous limericks, extended limericks (aka limericks with porches), and so much more. Limericks are the poems that can be written in the empty spaces between life, Keillor posits, and this compact book illustrates the full range of the form''s utility: thank-you notes to doctors, odes to "Prairie Home" performers, postcard greetings from exotic places, succinct biographies of favorite writers, and scribbles in the margins of Sunday church programs. Readers who have always pined for the perfect limerick hinging on the place name "Schenectady" will at long last be placated. Meanwhile, longtime Keillor fans will gain insight into a whole new side of the bestselling author, whose obsession with limericks goes all the way back to when the bespectacled, lanky youth wearing hand-me-down jeans (from his sister) recited to his Anoka High School class: There was a young man of Anoka Who tried to write a great limerick. He tried and he tried And some were not bad, But something seemed to be missing.

With Boom Town, Garrison Keillor returns to his hometown of Lake Wobegon, which is in the midst of a rising economic tide driven by millennialentrepreneurs. "I go back home mainly for funerals, which these days are for people my age, 79, which gets my attention, an obituary with my number in it," he writes, as he sits at the bedside of Arlene Bunsen dying with humor and grace, and recalls a teenage love affair with Marlys Gunderson and observes the millennial culture, a stark contrast to the Lutheran farm town of the radio monologues. He spends the summer in the old Gunderson lake cabin, reliving the past, postponing his return to New York and his wife Giselle.Garrison Keillor wrote Boom Town during the pandemic lockdown in New York,reading drafts of it to his wife, Jenny, sitting across the room. He did parts of the book in monologues for audiences in Boston, New York, Washington, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Virginia, along with the story of how, in the 8th grade, his shop teacher Orville Buehler, worried about the boy''s carelessness with the power saw, sent him up to LaVona Person''s speech class, thus changing his life. Keillor says, "For many people, the key to success is discipline and education, but for me, it was ineptitude with power tools."

Margie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to her - he''s been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. She finds a patriotic purpose for the journey. A Lake Wobegon boy, Gussy Norlander, died in the liberation of Rome, 1944, and his grave, according to his elderly brother, Norbert, is in a neglected weed patch near the Colosseum. So it''s decided they will go to clean Gussy''s final resting place. But Margie is unprepared for the enthusiastic response - fifty people want to go with her, including her nemesis, the mayor of Lake Wobegon, Carl''s bossy sister, Eloise, Mr. Berge the town drunk, and her treacherous mother-in-law. Margie fends off some of the would-be travellers, but ten applicants remain, though Carl is not sure he wants to go after all. At this, a heartbroken Margie gets the motley crew to the airport and aboard the plane, and then discovers one of the secret pleasures of travel - as they enter alien territory, safely away from Lake Wobegon, they tell each other stories of astonishing frankness and self-revelation.

"Da Magnus i 1863 kom fra Nordstatshærens blodige felttog, hed byen endnu New Albion, og beboerne var kommet fra New England. Han kaldte dem for ’skovmænd’ – hvilket skyldtes navnet på deres forening eller ’loge’, ’The Mystical and Enlightened Order og Woodmen’, - ’Skovmændenes Mystiske og Oplyste Orden’. Det skyldtes også deres udseende; deres ansigter var som mejslet i tømmer. Ingen hilste ham på norsk. Han kunne kun tilstrækkeligt engelsk til at bede om, hvad han gerne ville have." Garrison Keillors bog Lake Wobegon rummer en lang række humoristiske skildringer af livet i en lille by i Midtvesten. For selvom Lake Wobegon er fiktiv, findes der utallige byer ligesom den. Fortællingerne starter ved byens grundlæggelse i starten af 1800-tallet, da den stadig hed New Albion og fortsætter til langt op i 1980’erne med at portrættere de forskellige indbyggeres finurlige historier. Den amerikanske forfatter og radiovært Garrison Keillor (f. 1942) er kendt for sine humoristiske skildringer af folk og fæ i den fiktive lille by Lake Wobegon i Minnesota. Hans bøger startede som oplæsninger i radioen og blev så populære, at de senere udkom som bøger. Garrison Keillors bøger er blevet oversat til en lang række fremmedsprog og har vundet ham stor popularitet i hele verden.

"Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon. When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done--a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from A Prairie Home Companion, stories from The New Yorker and The Atlantic, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns. With an extensive introduction and headnotes, photographs, and memorabilia, The Keillor Reader also presents pieces never before published"--

Every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central, in a packed theater, the lights dim, the crowd hushes, and an old-time radio show called A Prairie Home Companion, hosted by Garrison Keillor goes on the air, live, coast to coast. Our songbook features 20 songs written for and performed on the show, based on Richard Dworsky''s improvised arrangements at the piano: Bad Jokes * Beeboparebop Rhubarb Pie Theme * Brownie & Pete * Guy Noir Theme * Hush Little Baby * Hymn to Winter * Lake Wobegon School Hymn * Limericks (Waltz Me Around Again Willie) * The Lives of the Cowboys Theme * My Minnesota Home * Nonsense Song (A Boy''s Best Friend Is His Mother) * Oh Baby * Polly-Wolly Tunafish * Powdermilk Biscuit Theme * Slow Days of Summer * Song of the Exiles * The Sons of Knute Christmas Dance and Dinner * Tishomingo Blues * Whispering Tuna * Whoop-I-Ti-Yi-Yo.

¿Oh, baby, won¿t you dance with me? Little baby, bouncing on my knee, Wave your hands & shake your feet. Ooohh, baby, you¿re so sweet . . . .¿ The sweetness between a daddy & his little girl is all here -- the walks, the favorite foods, the dancing, the diaper changing. With his signature warmth & wit, author Garrison Keillor, the host of ¿A Prairie Home Companion,¿ turns ordinary daily events into celebrations. He wrote these songs for his young daughter, Maia Grace. Includes a CD sung by Keillor. Color illustrations.

Garrison Keillor''s gumshoe moves into the studio for a brand new, fully dramatized performance complete with music and sound effects.

"Gospel Birds" is a collection of nine classic and very funny monologues from the early years of "A Prairie Home Companion." In addition to the title story (about Irma and Ernie Lundeen''s traveling flock of acrobatic, bible-reciting birds), contents include: Pastor Ingquist''s Trip to Orlando Mammoth Concert Tickets Bruno, the Fishing Dog Gospel Birds Meeting Donny Hart at the Bus Stop A Day at the Circus with Mazumbo The Tollerud''s Korean Baby Sylvester Krueger''s Desk Babe Ruth visits Lake Wobegon "Gospel Birds" is Garrison Keillor at his very best--endearing insights, gentle humor and warm affection for the human foibles we all share.

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America''s most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.

Autobiographical sketches with stories about the inhabitants of Lake Wobegon, an imaginary Minnesota town. Learn about the statue of the Unknown Norwegian and why Lake Wobegon never made it onto the map, and many other small-town stories.

RULE 12 Don''t fight with younger people, even if you''re right, which you probably are. When they tell you outrageous things, say, "That''s very interesting, I''ll have to think about it." These people will be writing your obituary, and why give them a reason to put "contentious" or "embittered" in the second paragraph or accusations of cultural appropriation or insufficient anger at power imbalance. If you enjoy dispute, go after your elders if you still have any who are of sound mind. Poke them in the stomach. This will amaze them, seeing as everyone else pities them to death, and they will relish combat and rise to the challenge and it will improve their respiration. And a day later they''ll forget the whole thing.

In 1926 the Soderbjerg brothers Ray and Roy plunge into radio and start station WLT (with lettuce and tomato) in order to rescue their failing restaurant.

A wealthy and depressed Chicago man, bound for Christmas in Hawaii, is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. During his stay, he reaches an epiphany worthy of the season and resolves to simplify his life.

Albert P. Lilonde loves smelly cheeses so much that his family leaves him, his dog and cats can''t stand to be around him, and even the skunks have to move.