Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, ...

This complete original radio broadcast of the 3rd Farewell (June 10, 1989) features boogie piano player Butch Thompson, Robin and Linda Williams doing their show-stopping 'Mavis and Marvin Smiley' routine, a 'News from Lake Wobegon' m...

"It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town . . ." Lake Wobegon has been Garrison Keillor's fictional home town—and America's—for almost 40 years. Many of us have grown up with "the little town that time f...

You’ve heard Garrison Keillor and the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band perform on the radio. Now you can enjoy their feel-good music on CD. Prairie Home Companion listeners are frequently treated to a song—sometimes to a familiar...

This retrospective collection of IA Prairie Home Companion features complete monologues drawn from 20 years of radio broadcasts Filled with gentle humor, down-home truths, and amazing depths of tenderness and meaning, these tales of ...

A word or thirty from the sponsors of public radio's enduring Saturday-evening staple, Commercial Radio features the best bits (and questionable marketing strategies) of many Lake Wobegon establishments. In addition to missives from l...

In a book that is at once deeply personal and intellectually savvy, Homegrown Democrat is a celebration of liberalism as the “politics of kindness.” In his inimitable style, Keillor draws on a lifetime of experience amongst ...

Garrison Keillor is the consummate storyteller, gifted with the rare ability--both in print and in performance--to hold an audience spellbound with his tales of ordinary people whose lives contain extraordinary moments of humor, tende...

IPrairie Home Comedy and IGarrison Keillor's Comedy Theater in one fun-filled gift package.ibrPrairie Home Comedy Contents:brFreelance Writer; American Artistic Association; I Am A Tenor; Carp Trip; Memories of Pain; The Management As...

Includes the complete Pretty Good Jokes, Few More Pretty Good Jokes, and New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes.

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Keillor gave three live performances at the Yale Repertory Theatre, reading from a variety of his published and unpublished stories, novels, and essays.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 La...

The latest in a line of bestselling collections that began with News from Lake Wobegon, this set selects monologues from four years (1999-2002) of live radio programs. Some were broadcast from the Fitzgerald Theatre, the show's St....

The fictional Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon is real to millions of A Prairie Home Companion fans, who tune in each week for the latest news about its strong women and good-looking men. Like Sinclair Lewis's Gopher Prairie, it is part...

Jokes are good for your health,' Garrison Keillor says. 'They reduce stress, even jokes as old as `Does this bus go to Duluth?' `No, this bus goes beep beep.' Or the blind man who picked up a hammer and saw. They keep on pleasing us, ...

A dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets. . . . But on the 12th Floor of the Acme Building, one man is still trying to find the answers to life's persistent quetions: Guy Noir, Private eye.' This all-new collection o...

A Prairie Home Companion celebrates that one person who manages to make you feel that you're special and that you aren't living up to your potential-all in the same sentence. Skits, songs, and stories from Garrison and the regular cas...

From 1981-82, A Prairie Home Companion went on tour, visiting and performing in friendly places like Lansing, Michigan and Ashland, Oregon. This scraook of musical highlights features performances by The Butch Thompson Trio, Robin an...

The 10th Anniversary Show (July 6-7, 1984) is one of the best live radio shows ever recorded, considered a must by fans and friends. Recorded live, it features performances by Greg Brown; The Butch Thompson Trio; Garrison Keillor; L...

In this collection of stories you'll meet a bunch of memorable guys including Lonesome Shorty, a cowpoke torn between the proud life in the saddle and the comforts of warm apartments and women; Buddy the teen-age leper in Sioux Falls;...

Originally broadcast on Christmas Eve 1994, IA Prairie Home Christmas is a delightful compilation of all-time-favorite highlights from past holiday broadcasts of Garrison Keillor's I A Prairie Home Companion.Contents:brChristmas Time'...

Garrison Keillor joins German opera superstar Frederica Von Stade and noted conductor Philip Brunelle for this studio recording. These sixteen songs in praise of felines include 'My Grandmother's Cat,' 'The In and Out Song,' 'Cat O Ca...

This classic performance of Garrison Keillor's American Radio Company was broadcast live from the Mark Twain Memorial in Hartford Connecticut. The Hartford house is where Twain wrote many of his works. The show pays homage to Twain's ...

"It's a dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets. But on the twelfth floor of the Acme Building, one man is still trying to find the answers to life's persistent questions: Guy Noir, Private Eye."   The radi...

A young man from Lake Wobegon escapes to upstate New York, becomes manager of a college radio station, and dodges marriage with various eligible maidens. Garrison Keillor uses the plot as a vehicle for his comic takes on various subje...

A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues, Faith contains "Rotten Apples"; "O Death"; "The Wise Men"; "A Trip to Grand Rapids".

The Joke Show is the most popular annual broadcast from A Prairie Home Companion. A Few More Pretty Good Jokes features all the jokes from the most recent shows which aired in April 2000 and 2002 (both were done in New York). These r...

Great music is a hallmark of 'A Prairie Home Companion, 'and some of the best features pairs of guests harmonizing. This new collection brings together 14 of the best vocal and instrumental duets featured on 'A Prairie Home Companion,...

Even more of a good thing: the latest collection of knee-slappers, toe-tappers, and groaners from A Prairie Home Companion Joke Shows.  What does IDK stand for?" "I don't know." "OMG, nobody does!". . . . W...

Skits and bits from A Prairie Home Companion celebrate the secret society of men and women who possess excellent spelling and punctuation skills. English majors have long been the grist for sketches on A Prairie Home Companion. Garris...

Here's the last weekly live broadcast that started it all—the glorious tradition of saying goodbye. The final performance (June 13, 1987) brought Garrison Keillor and guests together for sweet music, sparkling wit, and the lates...