A Prairie Home Companion: English Majors, a Comedy Collection for the Highly Literate (Prairie Home Companion) (Prairie Home Companion (Audio))

Garrison Keillor

ISBN 10: 1598875884 ISBN 13: 9781598875881

Publisher: HighBridge Audio, 2008

Synopsis

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Review:

. . . this compilation will certainly evoke laughs from listeners. "AudioFile" " You do not have to be a college graduate to enjoy "A Prairie Home Companion English Majors"; a taste for American poetry and a smattering of knowledge about American literature is enough. "The Serious Comedy Site" "

From the Back Cover:

English majors comprise a secret society devoted to the helpless love of books by dead people and an aversion to flummery, persiflage, gobbledygook, gibberish, and high-flown malarkey. And here from A Prairie Home Companion—the only live radio variety show in America today that is hosted by an English major—are the Six-Minute Hamlet, the Ten-Minute MacBeth, tributes to Hawthorne and Kerouac and Emily Dickenson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes the M.F.A. scam and the ballad of John Henry ("John Henry was an English major and poetry was his line. He sat by the window with his yellow legal pad and he wrote one sentence at a time"). With guest appearances by Billy Collins, Roy Blount Jr., Robert Bly, Donald Hall, Allen Ginsberg, and Calvin Trillin.

About this edition

• Publisher: HighBridge Audio
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1598875884
• ISBN 13: 9781598875881
• Binding: Audio CD