Fresh Air, Garrison Keillor and Jhumpa Lahiri

Writer and radio host Garrison Keillor and writer Jhumpa Lahiri on this edition of Fresh Air. Garrison Keillor's new book is Love Me: A Novel. It's about the ambitions of a frustrated writer who publishes a piece in the New Yorker, writes a disappointing debut novel, and ends up penning an advice column in the local newspaper. Keillor is the host of public radio's A Prairie Home Companion, on the air since 1974. He's written thirteen books, including Lake Wobegon Summer 1956, Wobegon Boy and Wobegon Days. Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel is The Namesake. Lahiri won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Interpreter of Maladies, her collection of short stories. Lahiri was born in London and raised in Rhode Island. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002. The Namesake revisits themes of being an Indian immigrant in America. The Ganguli family leaves Calcutta and settles in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Broadcast Date: September 4, 2003)