Keillor to Pen Column for Tribune Media Services

Posted on June 23, 2005

Radio host and humorist Garrison Keillor will write a new, weekly column for Tribune Media Services (TMS), which plans to distribute it to newspapers in the U.S. and abroad beginning July 3. Each week, Keillor will offer readers his take on current events, life in the Midwest and other topics.

"Newspapers have been waving fistfuls of money at me for years," said Keillor. "But in the end it was the offer of frequent-flier mileage that convinced me to take the plunge. I am an everyday newspaper reader. I would walk a mile to get one. I would no sooner get my news from TV than I would buy bread at a gas station. As for radio, it has its merits, but you can't swat a fly with a radio."

Best known as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, heard weekly by more than 4 million listeners on public radio stations across the country, Keillor has also written more than a dozen books, including Lake Wobegon Days, The Book of Guys, Love Me and Homegrown Democrat. For many years, he contributed casuals and "Talk of the Town" pieces to The New Yorker magazine, and, most recently, he's been an essayist for Time.