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Me: By Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente As Told to Garrison Keillor
Written by Garrison Keillor
Narrated by Garrison Keillor and Tim Russell
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A brilliant, biting, and wickedly funny send-up of American politics. This is satire at its best, delivered as only Keillor can.
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Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor, born in Anoka, Minnesota, in 1942, is an essayist, columnist, blogger, and writer of sonnets, songs, and limericks, whose novel Pontoon the New York Times said 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 A Prairie Home Companion 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.
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