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English Majors: A comedy collection for the highly literate / with Garrison Keillor [sound recording]

Record details

  • ISBN: 1598875884
  • ISBN: 9781598875881
  • Physical Description: 2 sound discs (2 hrs., 30 mins.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: [Minneapolis, Minn.] : HighBridge, p2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A comedy collection for the highly literate"--Container.
Compact disc.
Originally broadcast on Prairie home companion, 1992-2007.
Formatted Contents Note:
disc 1. English majors / with Dave Barry (11:56) ; John Henry / Garrison Keillor & the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band (3:20) ; The old life / Donald Hall (5:55) ; Guy Noir, private eye / with Billy Collins (13:03) ; The lanyard / Billy Collins (2:23) ; The revenant / Billy Collins (2:24) ; Emily Dickinson suite / Sally and Richard Dworsky (5:56) ; The six-minute Hamlet (6:29) ; Long time leaving / Roy Blount Jr. (6:02) ; English majors : for whom? (6:11) ; The Hochstetter house (14:11) -- disc 2. Celebrity classics : the ten-minute MacBeth (10:59) ; Red, red rose / Garrison Keillor & the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band (5:45) ; Starting a poem / Robert Bly (:54) ; Song of myself / Walt Whitman (read by Allen Ginsberg) (11:10) ; Kerouac (5:38) ; The scarlet letter / with Calvin Trillin (4:29) ; Family man / Calvin Trillin (7:40) ; The family Shakespeare (6:43) ; Wild geese / Mary Oliver (read by Meryl Streep) (1:17) ; Helen Marie (23:06)
Participant or Performer Note:
Garrison Keillor ; with other performers.
Subject: Prairie home companion (Radio program)
American wit and humor.
Lake Wobegon (Minn. : Imaginary place) > Humor.
Radio comedies.
Radio programs.
Short stories, American.