Audio book adaptation 2009 Audie Award Winner
Scripts and bits from A Prairie Home Companion® celebrate the secret society of men and women who possess excellent spelling and punctuation skills. (You know who you are.)
Selections include "The Six-Minute Hamlet," a tribute to Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an MFA scam, a riveting "Lives of the English Majors" drama, and guests Billy Collins, Robert Bly, Roy Blount Jr., and Calvin Trillin.
21/2 hours – 2 CDs.
Listen to a sample from the APHC archive: The Six-Minute Hamlet
See also the Professional Organization of English Majors T-Shirt.
Digital Download available from Highbridge Company
Read our guest interview with Sue Scott
Track Listing:
Disc 1 Download Vol.1 from iTunes
- English Majors with Dave Barry (11:56)
- John Henry, Garrison Keillor & The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band (3:20)
- "The Old Life," Donald Hall (5:55)
- Guy Noir, Private Eye with Billy Collins (13:03)
- "The Lanyard," Billy Collins (2:23)
- "The Revenant," Billy Collins (2:24)
- Emily Dickinson Suite, Roy Blount Jr. (6:02)
- The Six-Minute Hamlet (6:29)
- Long Time Leaving, Roy Blount Jr. (6:02)
- English Majors: For Whom? (6:11)
- The Hochstetter House (14:11)
Disc 2 Download Vol.2 from iTunes
- Celebrity Classics: The Ten-Minute Macbeth (10:59)
- Red, Red Rose, Garrison Keillor & The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band (5:45)
- Starting a Poem, Robert Bly (0:54)
- Song of Myself, Walt Whitman, read by Allen Ginsberg (11:10)
- Kerouac (5:38)
- The Scarlet Letter with Calvin Trillin (4:29)
- Family Man, Calvin Trillin (7:40)
- The Family Shakespeare (6:43)
- "Wild Geese," Mary Oliver, read by Meryl Streep (1:17)
- Helen Marie (23:06)
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