Garrison Keillor is selling his saint Paul bookstore:<\/p>\n
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\u201cI opened Common Good Books because I loved the bookstores I knew around the U, Perrine\u2019s and McCosh\u2019s and Heddan\u2019s and Savran\u2019s,\u201d Keillor said Wednesday in an email. \u201cAnd now I\u2019m leaving town and am busy writing a book of my own so it\u2019s time to turn over the business to someone else. The world is full of wonderful independent bookstores and needs every one.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Keillor put his <\/span>St. Paul home on Summit Avenue<\/a> <\/span>up for sale last year. He wrote in a <\/span>Facebook post last month<\/a> <\/span>that he and his wife, Jenny Nilsson, had moved to Minneapolis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I may actually have to get in there Dash I rarely make it south of Midway books these days\u2026<\/p>\n
Since we’re talking Garrison Keillor, I thought I would throw this out there; Keillor had a reputation as one of the worst bosses in radio, and he always brought so much smug entitlement to his brand of Minnesota politics that it was sometimes hard to parity without lapsing into self-parody in turn \u2013 but I loved A Prairie Home Companion<\/em>. I listened to it most weekends for probably 15 years. Whatever Garrison Keillor’s many flaws, he got<\/em> small town rural Scandinavian life.<\/p>\n
Nowadays the show \u2013 rechristened Live From Here<\/em> after it turned out Keillor was #HimToo, and still starring PHC’s designated replacement Chris Thile, seems to specialize in a really, really excellent underground country\/bluegrass music, really really really really really bad standup comics, and skits written to a target audience of Brooklyn hipsters by, apparently, Brooklyn hipsters that Garner the occasional giggle and usually make me desperately miss Tim Russell and Sue Scott.<\/p>\n
So who knows \u2013 maybe I’ll run down and buy a book from the old guy.<\/p>\n
But it will be some Hayek or Paul Johnson. He’s not winning this thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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