Prophesies and publishers . . .
Many years ago in a very different incarnation, probably one of my favourite incarnations, I worked in the ABC Shop in the Melbourne CBD. It was the retail outlet for all things written, recorded, played and mentioned on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In those early days, the 1980’s, one of the most sort after audio-tapes and then books, was the Lake Wobegon series by Garrison Keillor. I wondered what held people’s interest, but then I heard the homely ‘Prairies Companion’ voice, as if the listener sat out on the porch sharing a moment privately with the man, and I could see why.