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...goes The Mid-Life Crisis of Dionysus, a sly sketch from Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company show, and the ringing central gong of his amiable new collection, The Book of Guys (Viking; 340 pages; $22). But there's more, and worse. "Adolescence hits boys harder than it does girls," Keillor writes. "Girls bleed a little and their breasts pop out, big deal, but adolescence lands on a guy with both feet, a bad hormone experience. Your body is engulfed by chemicals of rage and despair, you pound, you shriek, you batter your head against the trees...
...Keillor, whose Lake Wobegon monologues established him as the funniest American writer still open for business, leaves off direct argument just as women readers are taking a deep breath and checking their 3-by-5 note cards, and craftily retreats to parable. Zeus, lolling at a seaside cafe, is confronted by Hera's lawyer, who threatens litigation. The father of the gods turns the twit into vinaigrette dressing, pours the stuff over salad, then tells a waiter the greens are wilted and should be fed to pigs. "And bring me a beautiful young woman, passionate but compliant, with small, ripe...
Marvelous stuff, by a guy who proves you don't have to be Ross Perot to be funny. Keillor for Secretary of Spin...
Like so many American humorists -- Benny, Carson, Letterman, Keillor -- Andersen was born in the nation's midsection, Omaha to be precise. At Harvard he characteristically shunned the campus daily, the Crimson, in favor of the anti-Establishment Lampoon. After graduation, Kurt spent five years as a writer with NBC-TV's Today show, then wrote for TIME for five years. In 1986 , he created Spy with E. Graydon Carter. Throughout the Spy years Kurt was never a complete defector; he remained our architecture and design critic...
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...