Pretty Good Bits from A Prairie Home Companion and Garrison Keillor: A Specially Priced Introduction to the World of Lake Wobegon

Written by Garrison Keillor

Ever wondered what makes over 3 million listeners tune in week after week to Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion? Thought about a visit to Lake Wobegon but never got around to it? Now is the time to find out and take a special tour. Pretty Good Bits is a special limited edition sampler containing "pretty good bits" from this popular radio program, including an episode of Guy Noir: Radio Private Eye, ads from loyal sponsors, trademark sound effects, and a classic News from Lake Wobegon monologue.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Highbridge Company
• Release date: Aug 1, 2003
• ISBN: 9781615730001

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 Pretty Good Bits from A Prairie Home Companion and Garrison Keillor

[Maggie Norris · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I found the material just as laugh-out-loud funny as I did the first time ai heard it. I listened in bed last night and fell asleep immediately after it was over.