Garrison Keillor

Learn about the status of the unknown Norwegian and why Lake Wobegon never made it onto the maps and many other small-town stories.

A wealthy and depressed Chicago man, bound for Christmas in Hawaii, is abruptly summoned home to North Dakota. He arrives just in time to be trapped there by a blizzard. During his stay, he reaches an epiphany worthy of the season and resolves to simplify his life.

Over 2,200 Jokes from America's favorite live radio show

A treasury of hilarity from Garrison Keillor and the cast of public radio's A Prairie Home Companion.
A guy walks into a bar. Eight Canada Geese walk into a bar. A termite jumps up on the bar and asks, "Where is the bar tender?" Drum roll.
The Sixth Edition of the perennially popular Pretty Good Joke Book is everything the first

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"I think people have an absolute ear for what is true," Garrison Keillor told an interviewer. It is this rare and marvelous sense of truth-of laughter, joy, and compassion and situations-that makes Keillor such a brilliant and beloved storyteller. The collection includes: Your Book Saved My Life, Mister, End of the Trail, Meeting Famous People, Family Honeymoon Al Denny, Basketball, After A Fall, The Babe, We Are Still Married, Drowning, Attitude,...

This is the live recording of the show that played to sold-out theaters across the country. As Philip Brunelle leads the Minnesota Orchestra, Garrison Keillor does what he does best: talks, tells stories, and ponders the experience of being Lutheran. It's a gentle mix of great music and down-home humor. Includes Keillor's popular parody, "A Young Lutheran's Guide to the Orchestra." Content: Hello Love; Loyalty Days; Whoopi Ti-Yi-Yo; Sons of Knute-Loyalty...

In his second collection of poetry (the first 77 Love Sonnets) Keillor writes--with his characteristic combination of humor and insight--on love, modernity, nostalgia, politics, religion, and other facets of daily life. Keillor's verses are charming and playful, locating sublime song within the humdrum of being human.

A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Love includes "Truckstop," "Uncle Al's Gift," "Rotten Apples," and "The Wise Men."

A special performance combines a popular Garrison Keillor piece with a renowned orchestra.

These news from Lake Wobegon monologues are grouped by theme. Rhubarb includes "Rhubarb", "Sweet Corn," "The Sun's Gonna Shine Someday," and "Yellow Ribbon."

Some say a place is home when you know where all the roads go. Over in Lake Wobegon, all the roads take you there, and it's never been any different. And what you learn along the way is that-quicker than any road sign or street map or pair of shiny red shoes-all you really need is a story to get you from here to there. A story about an ordinary day, any ordinary day. About a young woman and her bridal shower, about a fishing shack and when it's prudent...