A Prairie Home Companion gets lots of email, including many questions that only Garrison Keillor himself can answer. Here are some of those questions with Keillor's responses. My son recently graduated from college with a degree in communications and is working part time for a radio station in Virginia. But he is somewhat disheartened that his career is not going as fast as he would like. Jan Hruska Manassas, Virginia Dear Jan, The young man should stay loose and have his adventures and enjoy his life and not obsess about the career.
Radio is meant to be fun.
While he enjoys it, he should be looking toward the horizon and the advent of web-casting and all else that s coming toward us and if he sees a beautiful port, he should consider jumping ship. I do think there s a future in radio, though. The listeners are constantly rearranging their lives and looking for amusement and elucidation, and the newest new thing, and the young person who can gratify them will do very, very well. I write because I live in New York City, half a mile, maybe less, from the World Trade Center, or where it once was. The world seems so sad, I have so much to say about it, and nothing to say at all by now.