The Zombies of Lake Woebegotten

I’ve been a fan of Prairie Home Companion for about twenty years.  The show is a nice mixture of the silly, the maudlin, and downright brilliant.  But I have never been able to sit down and read one of Garrison Keillor’s novels about Lake Wobegon-where the women are strong, the men are good looking, and the children are all above average.  So I was a bit surprised when I saw a book, which on first glace-and many subsequent glaces- appeared to be a zombie story set in Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor. It was not overly surprised by this book,…

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The Informant

Matt Damon plays the part of a slightly insane fellow who works for ADM and decides it would be a good idea to become a Government Informant.  Well, actually, he thinks it’s not that great an idea, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. Mark Whitacre can’t help himself.  He thinks of he is the man in the white hat, as the hero in his own story, as a man doing the right thing.  The only problem is that he is a lair and a thief.  This tends to make his usefulness as a whistleblower a bit…

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