Connections: modern day storytelling

25 March, 2007 in Connections, Off-topic, Podcasting, Storytelling

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A not insignificant aspect of my interest in comics relates to storytelling. What makes a good story? Is it the story itself, or is it the way that you tell it? A mainstay of public radio in the USA and the UK, Garrison Keillor is surely one of America’s greatest living storytellers. His weekly radio show features a monologue entitled The News from Lake Wobegon, the fictional ‘home-town’ of Keillor. This segment of the show is now available every week as a podcast, and it’s wonderful stuff. You can find out more here, or if using iTunes to manage your podcasts just follow this link.

Photo: Brian Velenchenko

PS… I’ve just realised that in the gushing comment I made about the show on iTunes, I managed to get my spelling of ‘hear’ mixed up with ‘here’. Crap. A career as a serious academic is seeming even further out of reach…

3 Comments

  1. 1 Reading: Julius Knipl Real Estate Photographer « “no words no action” Pingback on May 6th, 2007 at 10:06 pm

    […] it just imagined nostalgia? I’m not American, but along with Garrison Keillor’s weekly tales from northern Minnesota, Julius Knipl Real Estate Photographer is one of the closest renditions that I have encountered to […]

  2. 2 Off-topic: nostalgia from the Vinyl Café « “no words no action” Pingback on Jun 17th, 2007 at 5:52 pm

    […] readers might already be aware of my fondness for the meandering monologues of Garrison Keillor on his weekly radio show A Praire Home Companion. The lingering sense of nostalgia for simpler […]

  3. 3 Unfinished: Nathalie op de Beeck on Jem Cohen, Ben Katchor, Chris Ware and Walter Benjamin « “no words no action” Pingback on Oct 12th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

    […] like Garrison Keillor’s Tales from Lake Wobegon or Stuart McLean’s stories from the Vinyl Café, fictional environments and settings are […]


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