Garrison Keillor

Guy Noir, Private Eye has been a favorite of fans of Prairie Home Companion for years, and finally Garrison Keillor has written the first original novel featuring the infamous private eye.

In the Straight Skinny, Noir is feeling the weight if the poor economy and has just escaped a sticky situation with the menacing but vaguely senile mobster Joey Roast Beef, when he meets up with an old flame, Naomi Fallopian, and gets embroiled in a criminal enterprise involving the use of tape worms as a get-rich-quick diet scheme. Soon Noir has ingested a tape worm and is shedding pounds and turning heads. The high life doesn't last as Ms. Fallopian skips town with the money, leaving Noir to take the fall for the scheme.

This event will be a signing only.

Those wishing to get books signed will be asked to purchase at least one copy of Guy Noir and the straight skinny from Vroman's, and one additional copy for every 3 books they bring from home. Save your Vroman's receipt; it will be checked when you enter the signing line.

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Indeed today is the day the first Guy Noir mystery goes on sale across the country, Guy Noir and the straight skinny, published by Penguin in paperback, the folks who also bring you Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Marcus Aurelius, Aeschylus, Jack Kerouac, and other fine authors.

Written entirely by Garrison Keillor and selling for a very reasonable $15, this gripping novel begins with the noted detective held at gunpoint in his office on the twelfth floor of the Acme Building by aging gangster Joey Robitussin who wants Guy to spill the beans about a wildly lucrative business venture he is pursuing with the former striptease dancer, now associate professor of women's studies, Naomi Fallopian.

Fans of the Noir episodes on A Prairie Home Companion will recognize Lieutenant McCafferty, Larry B. Larry, and of course Sugar O'Toole, and they will learn more of Guy's personal history growing up in New York and his romance with the Broadway composer Beatrice Olson who moved to St. Paul to write a musical about F. Scott Fitzgerald, thus luring the Gotham p.i. to the land of Lutherans. Is there sex and violence? Yes, some. Is it appropriate for Young Adults? You'd be surprised. Will it be the first in a long series of adventure mysteries? We shall see.

Be the first in your tribe to own a copy. Ask for it wherever fine books are sold or directly from Common Good Books.

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Read an excerpt from the first chapter, and listen to a sample of the audiobook, featuring Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and music by Rich Dworsky:
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Help us celebrate Nation Poetry Month as Jim Leahy hosts an "open mic" Poetry Circle at the Bookshop on Sunday, April 22nd at 3 pm. Come share a favorite poem or one of your own creation. Everyone who attends will be entered in a raffle to win a copy of "Good Poems, American Places"

Jim is the host of CCTV's Poetry Moment and author of Living in Concord.

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Garrison Keillor

Copperfield’s Books Renowned Speakers An Evening with Garrison Keillor $49, $65, $75 Best-Selling Author and Host of “A Prairie Home Companion” America’s foremost humorist and social pundit, Garrison Keillor brings his wonderful, dry sense of humor to the stage in Santa Rosa. True to his radio form, humorist celebrity speaker Keillor shares hilarious anecdotes about growing up in the American Midwest, the people of Lake Wobegon and “late-life fatherhood”—all delivered with his signature class, charisma and wisdom. Groups of 10 or more receive 15% discount (winecat)… (more)

garrison Keillor reads from A Christmas Blizzard.

Best-selling author, and host of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor will discuss his new book, A Christmas Blizzard, on Wednesday, December 2 at 7:00 p.m. at the University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union, 300 Washington Ave. S.E. Minneapolis. A Christmas Blizzard is vintage Keillor, a wry, witty look at a contemporary Scrooge that is sure to please. Follow the journey of James and Joyce Sparrow as they struggle with each other, Christmas in general, and their life circumstances. Everything changes when James finds himself snowed-in in a fishing shack during a blizzard where he meets a wolf, the Big Hair Lady, and a Chinese wise man, each attempting to teach him the great mystery of life. Keillor will sign copies of his book following the discussion. This event is free and open to the public. Reserved seating and priority signing placement is available for the first 100 customers who purchase A Christmas Blizzard from the University of Minnesota Bookstore or their web site. For more information, or to order a signed copy visit www.bookstore.umn.edu/genref/authors.html. (UMNBookstore)… (more)

Garrison Keillor reads from Pilgrims: A Lake Wobegon Romance.

Best-selling author, and host of A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor will discuss his new book, “Pilgrims: A Lake Wobegon Romance”, on Tuesday, October 20 at 7:00 p.m. at the University of Minnesota Bookstore in Coffman Memorial Union, 300 Washington Ave. S.E. Minneapolis. “Pilgrims” is the first Wobegon novel to take the Wobegonians outside of Minnesota as they leave to explore Rome. Margie, the local high school English teacher, leads a cast of 12 to Rome to honor a Wobegonian war hero, August “Gussie” Norlander, who died in the liberation of Rome in May of 1944. Revel in their exploits and meeting with Gussie’s illegitimate daughter as they experience the pleasures, kinship and secret joy of travel. “Pilgrims” is classic Keillor: funny and frank and a wonderful story about home. Keillor will sign copies of his book following the discussion. This event is free and open to the public. Reserved seating and priority signing placement is available for the first 100 customers who purchase “Pilgrims” from the University of Minnesota Bookstore or their web site. For more information, or to order a signed copy visit www.bookstore.umn.edu/genref/authors.html. (UMNBookstore)… (more)

Garrison Keillor , Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance.

OFFSITE - GARRISON KEILLOR: PILGRIMS     7pm
Garrison Keillor is an American treasure. Mixing music, storytelling and humor, Keillor, best known for his weekly
radio show A Prairie Home Companion, offers us a lighthearted but deeply felt reflection of ourselves.
He's written more than 20 books, as well as a weekly column, and with more than 4 million regular listeners, he
is credited with single-handedly reviving the virtually lost art of live radio entertainment in America. Tonight
Keillor discusses and signs his latest novel, Pilgrims: A Woebegone Romance (Viking, $25.95), in
which eclectic Wobegon residents go abroad in a rousing and moving story of a group trip to Rome. TICKETS are $30.95 + tax and include one copy of Pilgrims. Two tickets can be purchased for
$35.95 and includes one copy of Pilgrims. Tickets are available only at Changing Hands Bookstore
(6428
S. McClintock Dr. Tempe, AZ 85283, 480-730-0205). PLEASE NOTE: This is an offsite event at Dobson High School Auditorium (1501
W. Guadalupe Rd. Mesa, AZ 85202, 480-472-3000). General Seating. (booksense)… (more)

Garrison Keillor on tour for Pilgrims: A Wobegon Novel.

America's favorite storyteller and for 35 years host of NPR's "Prairie Home Companion," makes his first visit to the Center for the Book! He'll be talking about his eagerly anticipated new novel, Pilgrims: A Wobegon Novel, a delightful chronicle of small-town Middlewesterners we know and love, and a book critics are already calling "a modern day Canterbury Tales." Keillor has written more than a dozen books including Lake Wobegon Days, Leaving Home, Pontoon and Homegrown Democrat. Perhaps this country's best-known humorist, he also is heard regularly with "The Writers Almanac" on many NPR stations. No tickets or reservations; first-come, first-seated. (jasbro)… (more)