{"product_id":"9781101517772","title":"The Keillor Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eStories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done—a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from\u003ci\u003e A Prairie Home Companion\u003c\/i\u003e, stories from \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, excerpts from novels, newspaper columns. With an extensive introduction and headnotes, photographs, and memorabilia, \u003ci\u003eThe Keillor Reader\u003c\/i\u003e also presents pieces never before published, including the essays “Cheerfulness” and “What We Have Learned So Far.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eKeillor is the founder and host of \u003ci\u003eA Prairie Home Companion\u003c\/i\u003e, celebrating its fortieth anniversary in 2014. He is the author of nineteen books of fiction and humor, the editor of the \u003ci\u003eGood Poems\u003c\/i\u003e collections, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128067080432,"sku":"9781101517772","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101517772_p0.jpg?v=1763687844","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101517772","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}