Most Popular Books by Garrison Keillor

Having transformed the annual Fourth of July parade into a Lake Wobegon extravaganza, steadfast mechanic Clint Bunsen attracts the attention of the governor and the media before announcing his intention to run for Congress, an endeavor that is compromised by his drinking and rumors of an affair. A best-selling novel. Reprint.

Lake Wobegon goes to Italy in Garrison Keillor''s latest Twelve Wobegonians fly to Rome to decorate a war hero''s grave, led by Marjorie Krebsbach, with radio host Gary Keillor along for the ride. The pilgrimage is inspired by a phone call from an Italian woman seeking her Lake Wobegon roots and by a memoir O Paradiso by a farm wife who found the secret of life and love in Italy. And by marjorie''s longing to win back the love of her husband Carl. Far from home, sitting in the rain in the Piazza Navona, the pilgrims talks about themselves, as they never could do in the Chatterbox Café. "You''re not going to write about this, I hope," says Irene Bunsen. "Of course I am. I invented this town," says Mr. Keillor. "Oh my, aren''t you something," she replies.

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.

"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.

Many books have been written about the Battle of Britain and the events leading up to it. Some are autobiographies by fighter pilots, some are by historians writing in hindsight, researching documents and including personal memories of the participants. The author of this book was a World War II Spitfire pilot who has previously written and lectured about this battle, and he has presented a thesis in defence of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the Chief of Fighter Command.

¿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.

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.

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.

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.

Astonished to learn that her impeccable mother led a secret life marked by her passionate love for a Las Vegas man and a private commitment to pleasure, Barbara elects to end destructive patterns in her own life while honoring her mother''s final wishes.

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.

"I''ve spent enough of my life in waiting rooms to have written War and Peace," says Garrison Keillor, "and instead I wrote these limericks."