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.
Summary
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 donea 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, including the essays Cheerfulness” and What We Have Learned So Far.”
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- Author Keillor, Garrison
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 384
- Language EN
- Publisher Viking Adult, New York
- Date 2014-05-01
- ISBN 9780670020584
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