"Ten Pounds of Small Grey Print/ Stories of All Kinds…"

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Looks like the real Prairie Home Companion is the Sunday edition of The New York Times. The great Garrison Keillor, bard of Simpler Times, offers up a troubadorian ode–in verse and song–to Sunday’s Grey Lady.

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Megan Garber is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. She was formerly a CJR staff writer.