Winner of Web publishers Weekly PAY ATTENTION Award for Ideal Short Tales Wherever Garrison Keillor’s imagination takes him, the street back to Lake Wobegon is always a wonderful one. His tale collections about ‘the small town that point forgot’ are his most popular; this Lake Wobegon collection features 11 fantastic stories documented from live radio broadcasts of the Prairie Home Partner.Life nowadays in Lake Wobegon means shirtsleeve autumns and late-starting winters. Meanwhile, a bus full of about Life These Days: Tales from Lake Wobegon Lutheran guys attends the Risk Takers convention in Minneapolis to accomplish the unthinkable: exhibit their emotions. Pastor Ingqvist interviews for employment in the Mall of America. The Ingqvists’ older pet dog discovers the elixir of youth. The web site for the World’s Largest Pile of Burlap Hand bags (www.wlpbb) starts a window on Lake Wobegon to the world.So that as a special reward, Life These Days includes a never-before-available Keillor brief story, ‘Springtime.’Contents:Gladys Hits A Raccoon; The World’s Largest Pile; My Cousin Rose; The Risk Takers; Pastor Ingqvist at the Mall; Hunting Stories; Sorrows of January; Clarence Cleans His Roof; Miracle from the Pastor’s Dog; War from the Krebsbachs; Graduation