Volume 50, Number 17 · November 6, 2003

Leaving the Lake

By Larry McMurtry
Love Me
by Garrison Keillor

Viking, 272 pp., $24.95

Does Garrison Keillor come out of literature or radio? He's now filled at least five books—two of them very good books—with stories, monologues, vignettes, anecdotes, poems, letters, and snippets describing life in the small Minnesota town he calls Lake Wobegon. But a fair portion of this material was delivered live on the Satur-day night radio show A Prairie Home Companion, surely one of the enduring triumphs of public broadcasting. Here's Mr. Keillor describing how that worked:



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