Garrison Keillor did ?A Prairie Home Companion? for forty years, wrote fiction and comedy, invented a town called Lake Wobegon where all the children are above average, even though he himself grew up evangelical in a small separatist flock where all the children expected the imminent end of the world. He?s busy in retirement, having written a memoir and a book of limericks and is at work on a musical and a Lake Wobegon screenplay, and he continues to do ?The Writers Almanac? sent out daily to Internet subscribers (free).? "Fans laughed, applauded and sang along throughout Sunday night?s two-hour show? -Jeff Baenen, AP News ?His shows can, for a couple of hours, transform an audience of even so-called coastal elites into a small-town community with an intimacy only radio and its podcast descendants can achieve? -Chris Barton,?LA Times ?[Keillor is] an expert at making you feel at home with his low-key, familiar style. Comfortable is his specialty.? -Betsie Freeman,?Omaha-World