Clint Bunsen, one of the old reliables in Lake Wobegon, has run the Fourth of July parade for six years, turning the event into such as dazzling spectacle that it has earned the attention of CNN, but when Clint announces his run for Congress, the town remembers some unfortunate episodes of his life.

"Stories, essays, poems, and personal reminiscences from the sage of Lake Wobegon. When, at thirteen, he caught on as a sportswriter for the Anoka Herald, Garrison Keillor set out to become a professional writer, and so he has done--a storyteller, sometime comedian, essayist, newspaper columnist, screenwriter, poet. Now a single volume brings together the full range of his work: monologues from A Prairie Home Companion, stories from The New Yorker...