{"product_id":"that-time-of-year-a-minnesota-life-9781951627683","title":"That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of \u003ci\u003eA Prairie Home Companion\u003c\/i\u003e shares his own remarkable story.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThat Time of Year\u003c\/i\u003e, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded \u003ci\u003eA Prairie Home Companion \u003c\/i\u003eand put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Ren e Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who'd learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e He says, \"I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That's the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I'm heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarrison Keillor\u003c\/b\u003e, born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, is an essayist, columnist, blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks, whose novel \u003ci\u003ePontoon \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003esaid was \"a tough-minded book . . . full of wistfulness and futility yet somehow spangled with hope\"--no easy matter, especially the spangling. Garrison Keillor wrote and hosted the radio show \u003ci\u003eA Prairie Home Companion\u003c\/i\u003e for more than forty years, all thanks to kind aunts and good teachers and a very high threshold of boredom. In his retirement, he's written a memoir and a novel. He and his wife, Jenny Lind Nilsson, live in Minneapolis and New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Arcade Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50440470987026,"sku":"9781951627683","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9b3ae8b6-c9e0-4a10-99d1-b26711b91a2b.jpg?v=1729660823","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/that-time-of-year-a-minnesota-life-9781951627683","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}