Well, Fred & Guest, Minnesotans who are sick of Lake Wobegon and/or Keillor don't have to listen. And as far as Northrup somehow being superior because he "really is Indian" that's irrelevant, Keillor isn't writing about Indians - he's writing about the descendants of Scandinavian settlers. And he is from Minnesota - not Lake Wobegon, since that's a fictional place. And Fred, apparently we're hearing different things in Keillor's stories, because to my eye & ear he quite plainly loves the people he writes about. Still, Guest, why is it you seem not to think there's room for more than one "humorist from /of Minnesota?" Surely it ain't THAT small a culture?