The Keillor Reader Hardback - 2014

by Keillor, Garrison

An eclecticcollection ofessays that offer ashot of clarity andwisdom-or justan honest laugh

Garrison Keillor is famous as the host of the radio show APrairie Home Companion, now in its twenty-seventh year and heardby more than four million listeners each week. His most recentLake Wobegon novel, Pontoon, was an instant New York Timesbestseller that received phenomenal reviews from coast to coast.And he's become the arbiter of fine American poetry through theGood Poems series and as the voice of The Writer's Almanac. ButKeillor's sharpest insights and sense of humor shine through mostbrilliantly in his essays.

Culled from his syndicated newspaper column, "The OldScout," and pieces written for Time magazine and The AtlanticMonthly among others, The Keillor Reader will be embraced byreaders who fell in love with Alice through Calvin Trillin's memoirs,laughed out loud with David Sedaris in Me Talk Pretty OneDay, or winced knowingly as they read I Feel Bad About My Neckby Nora Ephron. The perfect gift, The Keillor Reader is chock fullof notions about how to navigate life's murkier waters, all told withthe bracing wit and beautiful turns of phrase that only this literary-mindedMidwesterner can deliver.