Garrison Keillor's Podcast

I remember when I was a kid, our family driving home from Sunday night gospel meeting and ... more

This all came crashing down last Monday night at JFK when I boarded a Delta flight to Seat... more

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And now I worry, as old people do, about the kids I see who are growing up in the dreadful... more

And so you have men on bikes racing through narrow gaps on jammed avenues with a backpack ... more

Life is good once you master the art of Deletion. Every day my laptop is full of emails as... more

I was not a good son. A good son is one who visits his mother regularly and I was too busy... more

I live in the present. If I were to think about the future, I’d be alarmed about the utter... more

The lust for world domination does not make for the good life. It’s the life of the male r... more

I intend to enjoy defeat and go back and read Shakespeare, whom I wrote C-minus term paper... more

I do not understand the neighbors, actually, such as why their summer house has LANDSCAPIN... more

When I was 12, I was a teacher’s pet, so I was a target for playground bullies. A boy told... more

There is always an excuse for not exercising, a religious prohibition, some hereditary syn... more

My steak arrived and I hated it. It was tender to the point of being gelatinous. It was ra... more

I like Trader Joe’s because the clientele is half my age or less and I stand with my cart ... more

I’m grateful that, as a kid, I got to experience “visiting,” when the family got in the ca... more

Cranberries are the heart of Thanksgiving dinner. You don’t want a gourmet dinner that dis... more

I’ve known some great fathers, my brother Philip for one, my nephews Will and Douglas, my ... more

A little gift for our Garrison Keillor and Friends subscribers. In the Back Room (paid sub... more

I tell jokes because I remember a time in my life when I crowded into a booth at a bar wit... more

Here is a little gift to our GK and Friends subscribers. (In the Back Room, the paid subsc... more

My bio in 100 words is as follows: My parents were in love with each other, had six kids, ... more

I accept the fact that I am a back issue, a relic, and that younger people have taken over... more

I come from pot roast people and the past two months have been rough on me, when, doing pe... more

I loved my five days there. I encountered keen politeness. The truck stop guy who said, “I... more

And then around midnight a woman walked in, a civilian, no blue on her except her eyes. Sh... more

I’m a historic guy. They could put me in a museum. I went to college when tuition was $71/... more

It’s an amazing feat, turning the party of rectitude and personal liberty into a unified b... more