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...wait is over. Garrison Keillor, self-effacing fabulist, closet sociologist and "America's Tallest Radio Humorist," has written the history of "the little town that time forgot and that the decades cannot improve." His affectionate sketches provide a full granary of bemused narratives about favorite Wobegonians, including Father Emil, who blesses animals on the lawn of Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Church; the Statue of the Unknown Norwegian, which sprouts grass from an unusual place; and Angler Dr. Nute, a retired dentist who tells the sunfish, "Open wide . . . This may sting a little...
...Keillor's fame arises from broadcasting such bucolic whimsy, but he is no literary novice. His humor has appeared in such magazines as the Atlantic and The New Yorker, and his stories about the upper Midwest were collected in the best-selling Happy to Be Here (1982). This time, in addition to raising questions about the nature of nostalgia, Keillor explores the confrontation between God-fearing parents and the children they send off to college...
...bill for the 10:30 a.m. coffee crowd and said of the President's State of the Union address: "Oh, he's great. When he gets done, we'll have the rich and the poor. But he's great." Even a visitor primed by years of listening to Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion is not sure whether this is a deadpan Minnesota joke, a political opinion--or both...
Just listen. The jaunty fiddling of a Celtic folk song. The stammering voice of Melville's Billy Budd protesting his innocence. The Los Angeles Philharmonic's rousing rendition of Beethoven's Fifth. And the husky, down-home inflections of Garrison Keillor inviting one and all to drop in on the imaginary hamlet of Lake Wobegon, "the little town that time forgot and that decades cannot improve...
Sound tantalizing? Well, it is all within earshot if your radio is tuned to one of the 277 American Public Radio affiliates across the country, any one of which might feature just such an eclectic sampling. These stations air not only Keillor's whimsically witty Prairie Home Companion but a diverse medley of classical music programs including High Performance, a kind of Great Performances of jazz, classical and folk music, and highlights of music festivals from Bayreuth to Spoleto. APR takes its culture-vulturing seriously: with 70% of its programming consisting of classical music, it is the arty counterpart...