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Garrison Keillor—America’s favorite storyteller—is host of A Prairie Home Companion^®. Find all Keillor's “News from Lake Wobegon” monologue collections, as well as his books, music, humor compilations, and A Prairie Home Companion radio broadcasts.

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3 Dozen Poems

Read by Garrison Keillor

The favorite poems from Garrison Keillor’s daily radio program The Writer's Almanac. Learn More

77 Love Sonnets

Garrison Keillor; read by the author

The first anthology of original poems by the host of The Writer's Almanac and A Prairie Home Companion. Learn More

The Adventures of Guy Noir

Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor and cast

Garrison Keillor's private eye spoof thrills audiences every week on live public radio broadcasts of a A Prairie Home Companion. Learn More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain; adapted by Garrison Keillor; read by Garrison Keillor

First published in 1884, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a masterpiece of world literature. Garrison Keillor's adaptation approaches this classic with the respect and affection it deserves. Learn More

The Book of Guys

Garrison Keillor; read by Garrison Keillor

In eight tales, the old storyteller plumbs the lives of various guys—an aging god, a fallen hero, a confused cowboy, a jealous husband, an old lecher, a teen-age leper, and more—and locates the true nature of guyhood today. Learn More

A Christmas Blizzard

Garrison Keillor; read by the author

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A short comic novel about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown during a blizzard. Learn More

Church People

Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor, Tom Keith, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and an ensemble cast

Audie® Award Winner

Lutherans have given us hotdish, church ladies, self-effacement, and solid advice (“Watch your manners, make yourself useful, and mind your own business”). Now they’ve given us a this Prairie Home Companion collection. Learn More

Climbing Up on the Rough Side

The Hopeful Gospel Quartet: Garrison Keillor, Kate MacKenzie, Robin and Linda Williams

The long-awaited second audio recording by the Hopeful Gospel Quartet—Robin and Linda Williams, Kate MacKenzie, and Garrison Keillor—is old-time gospel singing at its best. Learn More

Commercial Radio

Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor, Tom Keith, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and an ensemble cast

A word or thirty from the sponsors of public radio’s enduring Saturday-evening staple, Commercial Radio features the best bits (and questionable marketing strategies) of many Lake Wobegon establishments. Learn More

Definitely Above Average

Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor and an ensemble cast

From live broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.

After the birth of Garrison Keillor's daughter, the stories, songs, and sketches on A Prairie Home Companion took on a distinctly parental bent. Learn More

Dusty and Lefty

Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor, Tim Russell, and an ensemble cast

In six complete sketches drawn from the radio show, the two pardners cope with hangovers and citrusy aftershave, drive a herd of 10,000 free range chickens, tangle with a territorial poet named Big Messer, and much more. Each is a glimpse into daily life in and mostly out of the saddle. Learn More

English Majors

Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor, Tom Keith, Fred Newman, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and an ensemble cast

Audie® Award Winner

ENGLISH MAJORS. You know who you are and here is a double-CD celebrating the secret society of those who, though they may be chauffeuring kids to swim lessons or writing Unix programs or frying cheeseburgers, still could, if need be, write a term paper on the water imagery in The Waste Land. Learn More

Even More Pretty Good Jokes

Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor, Roy Blount Jr., and an ensemble cast

Includes jokes from A Prairie Home Companion Joke Shows airing between 2004 and 2008, and additional skits. Learn More

The Family Radio

Garrison Keillor; performed by Garrison Keillor and an ensemble cast

A sampler of crowd-pleasers from A Prairie Home Companion: four "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues, "commercials" for Bertha's Kitty Boutique and the Fearmonger's Shoppe, and great music. All selections are from original live radio broadcasts. Learn More