Rent A Prairie Home Companion: English Majors

Synopsis

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. Garrison Keillor grew up bookish in a football-loving town, and he knows what it means to be…different. This collection is for and about those who, though they may be chauffeuring kids to swim lessons or writing Unix programs or frying cheeseburgers, still could, if need be, write a term paper on the water imagery in The Waste Land.

The literate, intelligent, impeccably punctuated selections include 'Six Minute Hamlet,' tributes to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jack Kerouac, and Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an M.F.A. scam, and 'The Ballad of John Henry' ('John Henry was an English major and poetry was his line. He sat by the window with his yellow legal pad and he wrote one sentence at a time'). Billy Collins, Roy Blount Jr., Robert Bly, Donald Hall, and Calvin Trillin make guest appearances. Allen Ginsberg reads the words of Walt Whitman. And in riveting 'Lives of the English Majors' dramas, the quiet guy with glasses always gets the girl.

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