Book excerpt: "Boom Town: A Lake Wobegon Novel" by Garrison Keillor
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Humorist Garrison Keillor returns to his fictional Minnesota hometown of Lake Wobegon (made famous by the long-running radio program "A Prairie Home Companion," and the subject of numerous story collections). In "Boom Town: A Lake Wobegon Novel," the town is now the setting for the funerals of childhood friends.
Read an excerpt below, and don't miss correspondent Anthony Mason's interview with Garrison Keillor on "CBS Sunday Morning" May 15!
On April 15, 1874 – 150 years ago – the first Impressionist exhibition opened on Rue du Capucines in Paris, featuring works by 30 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Hosted by the "Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, etc.," it was founded in response to the Paris Salon, the annual, government-sponsored exhibition that would frequently reject the works of the rising artists.