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O What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound is the first poetry collection written by Garrison Keillor, the celebrated radio host of A Prairie Home Companion. Although he has edited several anthologies of his favorite poems, this volume forges a new path for him, as a poet of light verse. He writes with his characteristic combination of humor and insight on love, modernity, nostalgia, politics, religion, and other facets of daily...
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Disc 1: Oh sister ain't that hot -- Beebopareeboh, rhubarb pie -- Bertha's kitty boutique-- Dr. Wang-- Lives of the cowboys; Big Messer -- Old Yazoo -- Tom Keith, northern woodsman -- Roly poly -- School forest -- Under the stars -- Ten-minute Macbeth; Disc 2 : Ruth Harrison, references librarian -- Wolverine blues -- Professional association of English majors -- Guy noir: movie shoot -- Hula Lou-- Jimmy, our bus driver -- Walk over God's Heaven --...
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Thirty-four of the best-loved, most-requested songs and sketches from the original radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. Contents: Freelance Writer; American Artistic Association; I Am a Tenor; Car Trip; Memories of Pain; The Management Assumes No Responsibility; Second Methodist Church; Moodism; Reaching Out; Sex; Washing Your Hands; The In and Out Cat Song; The Story of Thanksgiving; My Grandmother's Cat; Animals of Other Lands; Winter Madrigal;...
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In April 2002, Garrison Keillor gave three live performances at the Yale Repertory Theatre, reading from a variety of his published and unpublished stories, novels, and essays. The award-winning radio personality and man behind the Lake Wobegon phenomenon presented his original musings on the life and times in which we live. Presenting one man, one mike, and a captive audience of fans both old and new, this audio recording captures the intimacy and...
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"It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town...." Each week, more than four million radio listeners hear these words, and settle in for some old-fashioned, up-to-the-minute storytelling. During live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor takes us to "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve," where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." These expertly...
6) Cheerfulness
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In Cheerfulness, veteran radio host and author Garrison Keillor reflects on a simple virtue that can help us in this stressful and sometimes gloomy era. Drawing on personal anecdotes from his young adulthood into his eighties, Keillor sheds light on the immense good that can come from a deliberate work ethic and a buoyant demeanor. "Adopting cheerfulness as a strategy does not mean closing your eyes to evil," he tells us; "it means resisting our drift...
7) Leaving home
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In this collection of stories about small-town life, Dale takes a step toward manhood and Darlene sets off for Minneapolis to begin a new life.