Posts tagged as Garrison Keillor
The Loon Goes Silent: Remembering Tom Keith
On Sunday, October 30, 2011, for reasons yet unclear, Tom Keith collapsed in his home. Keith's passing robs us of one of the most enjoyable personalities ever to occupy a Minnesota Public Radio studio. Most Americans who knew him probably did as Garrison Keillor's sound effects guy, the one who lent Prairie Home Companion sketches that all-important extra dimension. Others—Minnesotans—knew him as Jim Ed Poole and Doctor Larry Kyle, characters he created for his hosting gig on The Morning Show, which he inherited from Keillor, and which he left in 2008. READ MORE
Garrison Keillor's Persona Problem: Humble Deadline Writer or Millionaire?
Millionaire Upper West Side resident and contributor to the Atlantic and the New Yorker goes all aw-shucks, my car has 150,000 miles on it about the elite at a TriBeCa book party.
Real America, with Abe Sauer: Garrison Keillor Will Die
Garrison Keillor will die. That's an honest-to-God truth. And while that blunt statement on the surface is just factual, what it represents for many, including myself, is difficult to comprehend or even contemplate: that Garrison Keillor will die. READ MORE
