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This 1997 release is Keillor's first full-length novel. Earlier books were collections of "New from Lake Wobegon" stories previously told on public radio. I liked Wobegon Boy and following John Tollefson who leaves Lake Wobegon to take a job managing a new public radio station in upstate New York in order to avoid getting married to a high school sweetheart and regular bedmate.

Plenty of dry humor. He is so scared to bring his gf to Lake Wobegon, but the happy ending couldn't have occurred if he never did.

I liked how Keillor used the imagery of Tollefson's history in rural Midwest to introduce new ideas to upstate New York, like a restaurant built all around serving fresh sweetcorn. Never mind that such a thing good never actually survive as anything more than a hobby for a rich man IRL.

The story about Tollefson having to deal with sexual harassment charges in public radio and the college owned station wanting to change from primarily classical music to all talk seems like an unsightly foreshadowing of Keillor's own life when he was called out in the #MeToo movement and his final advice to the public on the matter is to never be friends with any women you work with.

The 2006 Audio book was of high quality with Keillor reading the work himself, as a radio actor would be one to do.

This Audiobook was originally released as a podcast. That means each "episode" ended with a full list of producers, voice actors, directors etc.

A full cast audio production told without a dedicated narrator follows the story of one historian who received permission from the Federation to travel to Ceti Alpha V to find what mire we may know about Khan 25 years after his interaction with Kirk. She boards Sulu's Excelsior and is assisted by an ear young Ensign Tuvok.

She finds all the old tapes made by Lt. McGyvors and we learn more than we every thought possible.

I found the original discovery of the Ceti eel disturbing but I might not have if I hadn't been plagued with nightmares of the earworms after seeing Star Trek II as a kid.

All in all, a fine story, some weird while that I could nitpick about, but you did not miss anything is you didn't hear it.