November 21, 2006 -
September 14, 2006 - MPR’s Tom Crann interviews Claire Kirch on her thoughts of Garrison Keillor opening his own bookstore. Keillor was unavailable for comment about his new venture.
September 23, 2005 - Garrison Keillor is a busy man these days. On top of his wildly popular public radio show "A Prairie Home Companion," he recently finished filming a movie based on the show, started writing a syndicated newspaper column, and now he's out with a new book. Keillor spoke about the poetry anthology he edited, "Good Poems for Hard Times," in Edina (Barnes & Noble - Galleria).
June 14, 2005 - Michael Cunningham is the author of four novels, including "The Hours," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 and was made into a film starring Meryl Streep. His upcoming novel, "Specimen Days," is a journey into the past and future that centers around the American poet Walt Whitman. Howe is a Guggenheim-award-winning poet whose first book, "The Good Thief," was selected by Margaret Atwood as winner of the National Poetry Series. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. She is author most recently of "What the Living Do" and was co-editor of "In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic." Cunningham and Howe met through a mutual friend in Provincetown when both were just starting out in their careers. Together, they cared for that friend, who was diagnosed with and later died of AIDS. Cunningham and Howe consider one another "ideal readers;" they live in New York City and show each other everything they write.
March 4, 2005 - On this Literary Friendships event, host Garrison Keillor shares the stage with poets Dana Gioia and Kay Ryan. Both being California poets with working-class origins, the two became good friends.
February 16, 2005 - On this Literary Friendships event, host Garrison Keillor shares the stage with married writers Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman who have ten novels and four children. Chabon and Waldman met on a blind date eleven years ago and were engaged to be married three weeks later. He writes at night; she writes during the day. They live in California with their four young children.
January 18, 2005 - On this Literary Friendships event, host Garrison Keillor shares the stage with Robert Bly and Donald Hall, leading figures in American letters. The two met as undergraduates at Harvard in the late 1940s, where Bly first published Hall's poetry in the school literary journal. Through letters and visits, they've corresponded for over 50 years.
May 3, 2004 - As a shy, self-conscious boy growing up in St. Paul, Charles Schulz experienced the kinds of cruelty that belong uniquely to kids. And after attending a U of M extension class in cartooning and landing a job at the Pioneer Press, he experienced adult-style cruelty as well. He would go on to use those experiences -- and the hope and perseverance that accompanied them -- as inspiration for his new comic strip, "peanuts." A new collection of the very earliest Peanuts cartoons comes out today. They were drawn between 1950 and 1952. In the book's forward, Garrison Keillor calls Schulz "an innovative genius of American comics." Jean Schulz -- who called her husband "sparky" -- says she's amazed at what the early work reveals of a different side of her husband's creativity.
October 7, 2002 - An excerpt of Garrison Keillor speaking about his serious case of "Twins Fever" during during A Prairie Home Companion show.
May 23, 2002 - MPR’s Euan Kerr interviews writer Garrison Keillor, about the writing libretto for the opera Mr. and Mrs. Olson. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and a star studded ensemble will present the world premiere of opera.