he's garrison keillor. this is overheard. >> garrison keillor, welcome. >> thank you sir. thanks for having me here. >> an honor to have you here. >> well, it's an honor to see you, sir. >> huh? >> and an honor to meet you. >> well, it's an honor now. may not be such an honor in a few minutes but -- >> well, let's see how it goes. [laughter] >> yeah. >> i know the obvious thing, mr. keillor, is to ask you about a prairie home companion, but i wanna talk about the writer's almanac first. >> i've heard of that. >> you have? you've been associated with it for. >> it's a little tiny five-minute. >> quite wonderful. >> .show. i think it's probably one of the few five-minute shows in -- in radio. >> but that's one of the great things about technology. we get it now for five minutes on the radio. we get it in a podcast; that's where i listen to it. >> i had no idea. >> get it on the computer. >> really? >> and i was listening to it just this morning in fact. >> hmm. >> and you wished a happy birthday to john irving and to dr. seuss. >> mm-hm. >> .and to tom wolfe, told stories ab

he's garrison keillor. this is overheard.

perhaps the more famous, the most famous disapproval comes from garrison keillor, and i promised in the advertisement for this talk to at least address what keillor had to say. actually, i've reproduced here what tina dupuis has to say about keillor. that's a little easier to follow. she quotes him: here is a powerful argument for writers burning their papers. little further down, think twice about donating your papers to an institution of higher learning, famous writer. some day they may be used against you. i think it's clear that he doesn't like the autobiography. it's also clear that he doesn't, hasn't read it very carefully. he's encountering a scholarly edition without really acknowledging that. but i think the one thing i wanted to say publicly is that it's good advice shot the give your papers -- not to give your papers to an institution like this. otherwise you might end up with a bestseller of 500,000 copies being sold 100 years after your death. or not. keillor simply has no patience with what he regards as academic overkill, and they simply misread the first half of the book