“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...

On July 6, 1974, about a dozen people made their way to the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in St. Paul for the first broadcast of a new radio show. Things went...

A short comic novel about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown during a blizzard.A wealthy and depressed man (thanks to the economy...

"...where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average." There's a reason all those children in Lake Wobegon are above average. It...

Funny and touching, these monologues from original live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion focus on the fall season.Includes: Giant Decoys Daryl Tollerud's Long Day Hog...

From America's favorite storyteller, here are 18 new tales of Lake Wobegon, handpicked from live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.

In his second collection of poetry (the first 77 Love Sonnets) Keillor writes—with his characteristic combination of humor and insight—on love, modernity, nostalgia, politics,...

These News from Lake Wobegon monologues are grouped by theme. Youth includes "Blue Devils," "Nostalgia," "Home Sweet Home," "O Christmas Tree," "Pageant," and "Messy Shoes."

A thematic collection of Lake Wobegon monologues. Hope contains “Truckstop”; “Smokes”; “The Perils of Spring”; “Let Us Pray.”

Garrison Keillor has been delighting audiences for four decades now with heartfelt, moving, and downright hilarious tales from the shores of Lake Wobegon. Here, for the first time...