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Having spent nearly two months hospitalized for three major abdominal surgeries, I can identify with Garrison Keillor and his description of his slow recovery from major surgery [ESSAY, Aug. 13]. When we do survive an operation and undergo a long recovery process, we realize how truly wonderful life is. Our selective thinking processes alter in deciding what is important and what is not. We learn to live with what we have, even if it is not what we want. These are revelations that make the hospital experience almost worthwhile. I compare it with my military service when I was drafted...
...Garrison Keillor's new novel, Lake Wobegon Summer 1956, will be published later this month by Viking
...much of his monologue, Keillor told a story of childhood that he said invoked “the beauty of indolence, the beauty of ease, which you may have lost track...
...told him a joke involving mucus,” Keillor deadpanned to the crowd. “The timing was perfect.... I made our class intellectual exhale tapioca, great noodles of tapioca...
...Keillor and Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew G. Faust, who has won the Parkman Prize for history writing and has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, were both given honorary Phi Beta Kappa membership yesterday...