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Garrison Keillor

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On Podcasts

Kensinger Jones is an old-school advertising man who made his mark back in the 1950’s and 60’s with a lot of original, award-winning work. As I understand it, Tony the Tiger is one of his credits, as are the Jolly Green Giant and Lil’ Sprout, the Pilsbury Doughboy, and a number of advertising icons. He [...]

We Who Walk Here

It’s Shirley Jackson’s birthday today, author of The Haunting of Hill House. I’d wax poetic about her, but Garrison Keillor already beat me to it on today’s Writer’s Almanac:
She was a very eccentric woman. For most of her life, she heard voices and music that no one else could hear, and she believed that she [...]