Word: keillors
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Wyatt and Susan sometimes sound as if they were born and raised in a Garrison Keillor monologue about quirky loners and appealing blasphemers. Aunt Ellen's Scripture-in-progress posits a God that is neither loving nor vengeful, only curious. "You might as well pray to a telephone pole," she says. "I mean, if God loved us, we would know it, wouldn...
...RADIO ROMANCE by Garrison Keillor (Viking; $21.95). The inventor and host of public radio's A Prairie Home Companion turns in a loopy, endearing novel about the golden days of the talking box and some of those folks behind the microphones. It is the 1930s, and the staff at Minneapolis' fictional WLT can't believe that what they are doing is work and that such good times will last. They...
Frank, like Keillor, does flee the Midwest for New York City. But though the Keillor voice has become a legendary trademark, the Keillor face (with his larger than human eyebrows) has never had the same potential...
Clearly, Frank is not a fictional representation of Keillor's life. His is only one role in a larger story about radio and American culture over three decades of this century...
...story of radio as told in WLT and the life of the author are indubitably intertwined. Keillor's romance with radio goes on with his new Saturday-afternoon radio show, American Radio Company of the Air, live from New York City. It's a romance that won't likely end soon...