Books
A complete lists of works, including sample excerpts
A complete lists of works, including sample excerpts
Read the first chapter of Garrison’s newest book, CHEERFULNESS and find out where to purchase.
Read MoreRead the first chapter of Garrison’s newest book, BRISK VERSE and find out where to purchase.
Read MoreRead the first chapter of Garrison’s newest Lake Wobegon novel, BOOM TOWN, and find out where to purchase.
Read MoreThe story of how a shy Minnesota farm boy invented A Prairie Home Companion.
Read the first chapter of Garrison’s memoir here
Read More“Well, it has been a quiet year in Lake Wobegon…”
Read the first chapter of Garrison’s new novel here
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Updated Softcover version: I sat down and looked at my memoir THAT TIME OF YEAR when it came out and was put off by the sadness, the opening chapter about how much I missed doing “A Prairie Home Companion,” so I sat down to fix it. That’s why a writer shouldn’t read his own work. But I did and so I sat down to cheer it up a little and wrote a new first paragraph.
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Return to Lake Wobegon, where townsfolk begin to notice a strange social phenomenon related to unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer.
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The Keillor Reader collects the full range of Garrison Keillor’s work: monologues from A Prairie Home Companion, stories from The New Yorker and The Atlantic, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns, and pieces never before published.
Read MoreI started out with No. 2 pencil and pads of paper, then acquired an Underwood manual typewriter with a faint f and a misshapen O. You had to poke the keys hard to make an impression. I set it on a maple desk in my bedroom, which looked out onto a cornfield across the road, and I wrote stories about tortured loners who stood at a distance from the crowd and observed their comings and goings with envy tinged with contempt.
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