Product Description
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’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.
Contents:
Contents:
- English Majors
- John Henry
- “The Old Life”
- Guy Noir, Private Eye
- “The Lanyard”
- “The Revenant”
- Emily Dickinson Suite
- The Six-Minute Hamlet
- Long Time Leaving
- English Majors: For Whom?
- The Hochstetter House
- Celebrity Classics: The Ten-Minute Macbeth
- Red, Red Rose
- Starting a Poem
- Song of Myself
- Kerouac
- The Scarlet Letter
- Family Man
- The Family Shakespeare
- “Wild Geese”
- Helen Marie
Reviews/Praise
—The Serious Comedy Site
“This compilation will certainly evoke laughs from listeners.”
—AudioFile
Author Bio
Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities. When not touring, he resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.