Available wherever books are sold TODAY!

"Tuesday was the publication day of my new book THAT TIME OF YEAR, which you can find at your public library. I wrote it fitfully over several years and then in a big whoosh last summer. It’s a memoir and probaby is not my last book but who can tell? Publishing is very different at this age than when I was 43 and wrote LAKE WOBEGON DAYS and was ambitious for it. Ambition burns off. My reading audience is mostly gone and the world of letters is dominated by the young and brilliant, which is as it should be, but I love the practice of writing more than ever, and if the new book has a few hundred readers and if they are pleased with it, that makes me happy. My first reader was Jenny Nilsson who lay on the couch and laughed a lot, and then came Katharine Seggerman and Hillary Speed, and then Stevie Beck corrected the grammatical mistakes and also enjoyed the story of the cheeseburger and my mother going next door to borrow bleach so she could stand and watch “I Love Lucy” (we didn’t have a TV because we were Plymouth Brethren) and she liked the description of my father’s hammering as he built our house. Four women who each liked it in different ways and I’m happy about that. I doubt that anyone will review it and it really doesn’t matter. What matters to me is that I loved working on it and now I love working on a new novel which is up to 20,000 words and going strong. It is the greatest good luck to have work to do that makes you happy and that goes on without drought into old age. I am a very fortunate man." - Garrison Keillor

From the Publisher:
With the warmth and humor we’ve come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story.

In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty years, 750 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renee Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation.

He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”

Garrison returned to the studio in September to record his memoir 'That Time of Year.' It truly adds to the experience to hear a master storyteller tell his story in his own words and voice!   With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story.  The recorded version of 'That Time of Life' runs over 11 hours.  Hear Garrison's story in his own voice!

Listen to a sample.>>>
Get the CDs >>>

That Time of Year: A Minnesota Life is out now via Arcade Publishing and is available wherever you get your books.