Audiobook19 hours
That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life
Written by Garrison Keillor and Richard Dworsky
Narrated by Garrison Keillor
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
About this audiobook
In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty years, 750 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renee Fleming and once sang two songs to the US Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who'd learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation.
He says, "I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That's the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I'm heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day."
He says, "I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That's the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I'm heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day."
More audiobooks from Garrison Keillor
Good Poems: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Home on the Prairie: Stories from Lake Wobegon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5News from Lake Wobegon: Winter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5New and Not Bad Pretty Good Jokes Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5News from Lake Wobegon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lake Wobegon Days Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/53 Dozen Poems: From the Writer's Almanac Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Plenty of Pretty Good Jokes Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5News from Lake Wobegon: Fall Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Youth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Adventures of Guy Noir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Patience Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5News from Lake Wobegon: Summer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Prairie Home Christmas Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5English Majors: A Comedy Collection for the Highly Literate Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lake Wobegon Loyalty Days Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Prairie Home Companion 20th Anniversary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5News from Lake Wobegon: Spring Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Christmas Blizzard Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Gospel Birds: And Other Stories of Lake Wobegon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Rhubarb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5More News from Lake Wobegon: Hope Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lake Wobegon U.S.A. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pontoon Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Related to That Time of Year
Related audiobooks
Wobegon Boy Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lake Wobegon Loyalty Days Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Best of the South: 1996-2005 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5O, What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, Pathetic & Profound Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5NPR Road Trips Collection Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life These Days: Stories from Lake Wobegon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Little Town Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lake Wobegon Virus: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lake Wobegon Family Reunion: Selected Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Road Home: News From Lake Wobegon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Never Better Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Fertility Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Patience Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5News from Lake Wobegon: Summer Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Local Man Moves to the City: Loose Talk from American Radio Company Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLake Wobegon U.S.A. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5News from Lake Wobegon: Fall Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Gospel Birds: And Other Stories of Lake Wobegon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Rhubarb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5WLT: A Radio Romance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Life in Comedy: An Evening of Favorites from a Writer's Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5More News from Lake Wobegon: Love Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5More News from Lake Wobegon: Humor Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lake Wobegon U.S.A.: Youth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Horrors! Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5More News from Lake Wobegon Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5More News from Lake Wobegon: Faith Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mother Father Uncle Aunt Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Personal Memoirs For You
The Woman in Me Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good Girls Don't Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Glass Castle: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: My Year of Psychedelics: Lessons on Better Living Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Counting the Cost Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pageboy: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Night: New translation by Marion Wiesel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bad Mormon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wishful Drinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finding Me: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Making It So: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enough Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Roxane Gay & Everand Originals: Built for This: The Quiet Strength of Powerlifting Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Summer of Fall: Gravity is a bitch, but I'm still standing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry, and Truth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Year of Magical Thinking Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5See You on the Way Down: Catch You on the Way Back Up! Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for That Time of Year
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
3 ratings0 reviews