And this is such a blessing." Keillor has never stopped writing. In his latest Lake Wobegon book, "Boom Town," the author returns to the community he invented: "And the people who live there ...

"News from Lake Wobegon." My God. What a nightmare. It's inoffensive, it's bland, it's plodding. You can feel the wrinkles growing and the blood draining out of your dick. It's a radio show for ...

LAKE WOBEGON, Minn. — It’s a place where all the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children are above average. It’s an expanse of rolling farm fields speckled with churches ...

That's a tribute, perhaps, to Keillor's storytelling. Pontoon is his fifth Lake Wobegon book and first in six years. It's not as sweeping as his debut novel, 1985's Lake Wobegon Days,but it's ...

In reporting the news from Lake Wobegon Minnnesota, Garrision Keillor, host of the popular NPR radio show "A Prarie Home Companion", ends with the famous line: "That's the news from Lake Wobegon ...

He is the author of many books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Wobegon Boy. Mr. Keillor gave a talk based on his latest book, Lake Wobegon Summer 1956, published by Viking Press. He read from his ...

Lake Wobegon Outfitters, which offers electric bikes along the Lake Wobegon Trail, has reopened this season with a new focus that is specifically on biking. Owner Wayne Birkholz started the ...

Could it? ”Well, I think the people of Lake Wobegon (the fictional town Keillor chronicles in each broadcast) own the rights to their own town. They`re all property owners and they have title to ...

But one man's sweet may be another man's saccharine: Some people just can't bear Garrison Keillor's homespun tales of Lake Wobegon, just as there are others, such as myself, who regard their ...