English Majors: A Comedy Collection for the Highly Literate

Written by Garrison Keillor

Includes the Six-Minute Hamlet, tributes to Hawthorne and Kerouac and Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an M.F.A. scam, Garrison Keillor#8217;s recollection of growing up bookish in a football-loving town, 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.') With guest appearances by Billy Collins, Roy Blount Jr., Robert Bly, Donald Hall, and Calvin Trillin.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Highbridge Company
• Release date: Mar 4, 2008
• ISBN: 9781598879520

Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor, born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, is an essayist, columnist, blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks, whose novel Pontoon the New York Times said was “a tough-minded book . . . full of wistfulness and futility yet somehow spangled with hope”—no easy matter, especially the spangling. Garrison Keillor wrote and hosted the radio show A Prairie Home Companion for more than forty years, all thanks to kind aunts and good teachers and a very high threshold of boredom. In his retirement, he’s written a memoir and a novel. He and his wife, Jenny Lind Nilsson, live in Minneapolis and New York.

Reviews for English Majors

[baystatera · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

An enjoyable mix of humorous radio skits, poetry, and song around the theme of English literature. Somewhat repetitive over the course of the two CDs, but a good choice for a short road trip for former English majors. Must like Garrison Keillor's ponderous News from Lake Wobegon style to enjoy some of the pieces, though. There's some heavy breathing into the microphone in spots!