Garrison Keillor
A Prairie Home Companion: Duets 2
“The world is full of lonesome singers, bless their hearts, who need to tell us about their empty days and weepy nights, but the answer to their di...
The Ryman Auditorium x Prairie Home History
One of our staff members recently visited Nashville, TN with his traveling senior softball team (yes, this is a true story!) and he popped into th...
Ricky Skaggs
Known worldwide as a country music superstar, Ricky Skaggs has recently been returning to his musical roots: bluegrass. He's even created his own r...
A Prairie Home Companion LIVE
Beamed into nearly 570 U.S. movie theaters last February, this special "cinecast" performance of A Prairie Home Companion at the Fitzgerald Theater...
Old Sweet Songs from A Prairie Home Companion: 1974 - 1976
Producer's note: The ¼-inch, 2-track tapes we used to record the earliest episodes of A Prairie Home Companion have survived flood, smoke damage, a...
Poet Interview: Barbara Crooker
The 2017 poetry collection Les Fauves is your most recent book. What is ekphrastic poetry?
Ekphrastic poetry is just a fancy term for poems that ha...
Joyce Sutphen
It's the birthday of poet Joyce Sutphen (books by this author), born near St. Joseph, Minnesota (1949). She grew up on a small farm. She was one of...
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It's the birthday of the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, (books by this author) born in Sussex, England (1792). One of his most famous ...
Anniversary Album: First Five Years
The Anniversary Album features a roundup of comedy sketches, songs and stories from the early years of A Prairie Home Companion.
If you showed up o...
An Interview with Jearlyn Steele
With her palpable passion for music & song, Jearlyn Steele has become a favorite of A Prairie Home Companion fans. Jearlyn Steele first sang wi...
How I Won the Minnesota Statehouse, By Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente As Told to Garrison Keillor
Long before the age of Trump, citizens of Minnesota were subjected to a governor cut from a similar cloth: Jesse Ventura. Garrison's clever satiric...
Liberty: A Lake Wobegon Novel
Liberty is Garrison Keillor's most ribald Lake Wobegon novel yet, set during a spectacular Fourth of July celebration amid marching bands and circu...