The Keillor reader /
"Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon. When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done--a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnis...
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New York, New York :
Viking,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- The news from Lake Wobegon. Bus children ; Growing up with the Flambeaus ; My cousin Kate ; June ; Gospel birds ; Pontoon boat ; What have we learned so far? ; Chickens ; The death of Byron ; Truckstop ; Faith
- Iconic pajamas. Henry ; Little house on the desert ; Billy the Kid ; Lonesome Shorty ; The Babe ; 1951 ; Little Becky ; Casey at the bat ; Marooned ; Mother's day
- Guys I have known. Earl Grey ; Don Giovanni ; Taking a meeting with Mr. Roast Beef ; Your book saved my life, mister ; Zeus the Lutheran ; Al Denny ; Jimmy seeks his fortune in Fairbanks ; At The New Yorker: my own memoir ; Snowman
- Life's little day. Rules of orchestra ; Five columns ; A speech to the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner ; Chet ; Mark ; What a luxury ; My life in prison ; Drowning 1954 ; College days ; My stroke (I'm over it) ; Home ; Anglicans ; The owl and the pussycat ; Cheerfulness.