Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor brings the cadences of radio storytelling, Midwestern observation, and literary parody into his essays and fiction. We Are Still Married gathers ten poems and fifty-seven prose pieces, including stories, letters, speeches, and comic reflections on family, politics, religion, travel, and writing. Viking published the original collection in 1989, while Penguin issued a paperback edition in 1990. Its range suits a writer closely associated with A Prairie Home Companion and the fictional Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon, but the volume also moves beyond those familiar settings. Keillor shifts from intimate recollection to public address without losing the conversational timing that made his broadcast work distinctive. The title We Are Still Married captures the collection’s interest in endurance, domestic negotiation, and the odd rituals that hold communities together. Rather than forming a single continuous memoir, the book presents a broad self-portrait through recurring voices, comic situations, literary allusions, and observations accumulated across different occasions.