English majors [sound recording] / with Garrison Keillor.
Material type: SoundPublisher number: 797588 | HighBridgePublication details: [Minneapolis, Minn.] : HighBridge, p2008.Description: 2 sound discs : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 1598875884
- 9781598875881
- Prairie home companion (Radio program)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Audiobook | Dr. James Carlson Library | Audiobook | 791.44 E58 | Available | 33111006499186 | ||||
Adult Audiobook | Main Library | Audiobook | 791.44 E58 | Available | 33111006617746 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Skits and bits from A Prairie Home Companion celebrate the secret society of men and women who possess excellent spelling and punctuation skills.
ENGLISH MAJORS. You know who you are and here is a double-CD celebrating the secret society of those who, though they may be chauffeuring kids to swim lessons or writing Unix programs or frying cheeseburgers, still could, if need be, write a term paper on the water imagery in The Waste Land .
Includes the Six-Minute Hamlet , the Ten-Minute MacBeth ,tributes to Hawthorne and Kerouac and Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an M.F.A. scam, the Ballad of John Henry ('John Henry was an English major and poetry was his line. He sat by the window with his yellow legal pad and he wrote one sentence at a time.'), and more.
With guest appearances by Allen Ginsberg, Billy Collins, Roy Blount Jr., Robert Bly, Donald Hall, and Calvin Trillin.
"A comedy collection for the highly literate"--Container.
Compact disc.
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).
Garrison Keillor ; with other performers.
Originally broadcast on Prairie home companion, 1992-2007.
Skits and bits from "A Prairie Home Companion" celebrate the secret society of men and women who possess excellent spelling and punctuation skills. With guest appearances by Allen Ginsberg, Billy Collins, Roy Blount Jr., Robert Bly, Donald Hall, and Calvin Trillin.