A Prairie Home Companion: English Majors, a Comedy Collection for the Highly Literate

. . . this compilation will certainly evoke laughs from listeners. "AudioFile" " You do not have to be a college graduate to enjoy "A Prairie Home Companion English Majors"; a taste for American poetry and a smattering of knowledge about American literature is enough. "The Serious Comedy Site" "

You know who you are and here is a double-CD celebrating the secret society of those who, though they may be chauffeuring kids to swim lessons or writing Unix programs or frying cheeseburgers, still could, if need be, write a term paper on the water imagery in 'The Waste Land'.This title includes the Six-Minute "Hamlet", the Ten-Minute "Macbeth", tributes to Hawthorne and Kerouac and Emily Dickinson, a Guy Noir adventure that exposes an M.F.A. scam, the Ballad of John Henry ('John Henry was an English major and poetry was his line. He sat by the window with his yellow legal pad and he wrote one sentence at a time.'), and more.It presents with guest appearances by Allen Ginsberg, Billy Collins, Roy Blount Jr., Robert Bly, Donald Hall, and Calvin Trillin.