(NYTBR) The host of “A Prairie Home Companion” and the author, most recently, of “The Keillor Reader” collects hymnals, phrase books and tales of heroic collies. And “I’m a connoisseur of bad poetry of the elegiac variety.”
What are the best books about Minnesota?
Ecclesiastes tells you all you need to know about Minnesota. “Whoever increases knowledge increases sorrow.” You can say that again. “The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong nor bread to the wise nor riches to men of understanding, but time and chance happeneth to them all.” That’s got Minnesota down to a T. You run fast and you trip on a gopher hole, you are heavily armed and well trained and you shoot yourself in the foot, you’re so smart you go broke. Continued
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