You know Buck, I appreciate that what he writes is fiction, but I'm afraid you are a bit too optimistic about all adults being able to grasp the fact that his fiction IS NOT autobiographical. Just read back through this thread, and you will see quite a few misconceptions that people hold about this guy, because they feel the Lake Wobegone act is somehow autobiographical, when it really isn't. Now, that IS a common mistake people make--they try and literally interpret artists' work as autobiographical in some way. But that is a true exercise in futility, because art is, by it's very definition, a metaphor for something else, even when it is autobiographical.

So, I agree that in a perfect world, everyone would understand that Lake Wobegone is NOT autobiographical, or even a very good fictional representation of Minnesota and Minnesotans, of the Heartland, of life on the prairie, or anything else.

My suggestion is for folks to try reading Jim Northrup for great cultural humor in a Minnesota vein.