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Keillor, Garrison (1942—)
The humorist Garrison Keillor is best known as the host of A Prairie Home Companion (1974-1987; 1993—) and the American Radio Company (1989-1993), both of which...
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Garrison Keillor (born 1942), host of public radio's popular A Prairie Home Companion and author of the best-selling Lake Wobegon Days, has made a career of telling stories about the fictional Minneso...
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Born August 7, 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota, and christened Gary by his parents, John and Grace Denham Keillor. "I've lived all of my life in Minnesota. As a child, the Laura Ingalls Wilder books were spe...
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In the following essay, Miller compares and contrasts Keillor's and Sinclair Lewis's portrayal of small-town life.
When Garrison Keillor took stories and characters which he's bee...
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In the following essay, Yaross Lee uses Keillor's story "Aprille" to analyze the effect of medium on a story.
A slippery problem facing scholars of popular culture involves how to...
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In the following review, Adams asserts that, "It's not likely that [The Book of Guys will give rise to much prolonged reflection, but it can hardly fail to provoke a number of chuckles.&...
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In the following excerpt, Walker praises Keillor's comic talents, but criticizes The Book of Guys for a lack of focus, consistency, and its vulgarity.
After years of quiet confusion. American m...
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In the following essay, Sonja and Karen Foss delineate the ways in which Keillor's radio monologues uphold a feminist epistomology.
Interest in the role played by cultural texts in subject form...
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In the following review, Gray states that, "At their best these stories are contemporary folk tales of American comic-karma … [at their worst many of these stories are like honey-coated ...
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In the following review, Sullivan discusses the picture of Lake Wobegon which emerges from Keillor's Leaving Home, and how one realizes in many of the stories that the place does not exist.
In ...
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In the following review, Lurie discusses Keillor's work as a humorist in his books and in articles for The New Yorker.
Over the last few years Lake Wobegon, Minnesota (population 942), has beco...
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In the following review, Henderson states, "The worst I could probably say about the 11 poems and 61 prose pieces brought together in We Are Still Married … is that I liked some pieces b...
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In the following review, Beverly asserts that Keillor's style is not successful in the novel form in his WLT: A Radio Romance.
On page 12 of Garrison Keillor's mocking and rowdy first no...
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In the following review, Zeidner calls Keillor's The Book of Guys "an endearingly acerbic collection of 22 stories about men with women trouble."
With his sixth book, Garrison Kei...
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Keillor, Garrison (1942—)
Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
Critical Essay by John E. Miller
