Garrison Keillor

Presents a collection of inspirational poems by such authors as Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, Robert Frost, and Raymond Carver.

Good Poems for Hard Times

The popular radio show host showcases some of his favorite poems, including the work of Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds, among others. Reprint.

Good Poems

Lake Wobegon Summer 1956

A wealthy and depressed 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.

A Christmas Blizzard

In this collection of Lake Wobegon stories, Keillor takes his readers back to that world, the place that is everybody's home town 'where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.' Leaving Home is a tribute to the life and people of Lake Wobegon, an elegy and a celebration, narrated with the gentle wit for which Garrison Keillor has been acclaimed.

Leaving Home

A Novel

Lake Wobegon Virus

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 toward compulsive dread and despond." Funny, poignant, thought-provoking, and whimsical, this is a book that will inspire you to choose cheerfulness in your daily life.

Cheerfulness

An intimate look into the lives of the quirky staff of WLT--a friendly neighborhood radio station founded by floundering Minneapolis restaurant magnates--weaves together real-life trauma with radio-life drama. Reprint.

A Radio Romance

In this charming departure from Lake Wobegon, bestselling author Garrison Keillor tells a hilarious and heartwarming tale of ambition, success and failure, and the virtues of real love. Aspiring writer Larry Wyler leads a quiet, decent life with his do-gooder wife, Iris, in St. Paul, Minnesota, but he wants more. When his literary debut becomes a hit, he departs for a Manhattan apartment, a job at the New Yorker, and three- martini lunches with the great editor, William Shawn. But when his second novel bombs and he finds himself in the grip of writer's block, Wyler discovers that success—and the New York publishing scene—is a fickle mistress, indeed. Creatively barren, nearly destitute, and longing for Iris, he accepts a job writing "Ask Mr. Blue," a column doling out advice to the lovelorn. It may not be glamorous work, but through it Wyler discovers what's really important and sets out to win back the woman he left behind.

Love Me

The warm and witty author of "Leaving Home" and "Lake Wobegone Days" discusses various aspects of life in America, from true "hometown" baseball to sitting in an airport and listening to the singing of a mechanical rabbit

Stories & Letters

We are Still Married

Last seen leaving home in Lake Wobegon Days, John Tollefson is now a forty-something bachelor running a public-radio station at a 'mouldering Episcopalian College' in upstate New York. John's tribulations - his gloomy, neurotic staff, his controlling boss, a disastrous speech at a public-radio conference, the bankruptcy of a sweetcorn restaurant in which he is partners with his lawyer, his bumpy relationship with his querulous father - are set alongside his passionate romance with the lawyer's sister Alida Freeman, a Columbia University historian who is writing a book about Abraham Lincoln's holistic healer. First a career crisis, then a family crisis take John back to Lake Wobegon, where the Tollefson family and assorted Lake Wobegon residents past and present - Mr Berge, Dorothy, Florian, Myrtle and Wally - sit in the Sidetrack Tap and the Chatterbox Cafe telling their stories. Wobegon Boy is a wonderful example of Garrison Keillor's funny and tender writing about small-town American life in the late 20th Century.

Wobegon Boy

A comedic noir novel features a character from the author's A Prairie Home Companion radio show as he faces off against gangsters Joey Roast Beef and Johnny Banana, all with the help of stripper-turned-women's-studies-professor Naomi Fallopian. Original.

Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny

What happens to an uppity cat when she gets a taste of the "good life" rich, honey-toned paintings accentuate the humour.

Cat, You Better Come Home

"This book combines text and image to reveal the real-life origins of the place where "the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children above average." Keillor meditates on the enduring culture of the county and on the years he spent there as a young writer and an outsider. And a short story of Lake Wobegon, "October," appears here for the first time in print."--BOOK JACKET.

In Search of Lake Wobegon

Cheerfulness is a choice. Happiness is circumstantial, joy is for special occasions, bliss is brief (except for blissful ignorance), jubilation is rare and elation even more so, contentment is lovely but easily broken, glee is often cruel, triumph is beyond the pale, delight is inexplicable, gaiety was possible once and now it belongs to Dan and George, but cheerfulness is a simple practical option: put yesterdaybehind and seize the day. Try it tomorrow morning and make it work.

Garrison Keillor

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