Prairie Beat: A Collection of Mostly Humorous Essays

By Tony Bender

Redhead Publishing, Inc., Ashley, North Dakota, 2002, Softcover

Note: Other books by Tony Bender are Loons in the Kitchen: Humorous &
Poignant Short Stories from the Dakotas, 2000
(library.ndsu.edu/grhc/order/nd_sd/tbender.html) and The Great
and Mighty Da-Da, 2001 (library.ndsu.edu/grhc/order/nd_sd/bender.html).

Prairie Beat is the funniest short story collection yet from Tony
Bender, two-time winner of the Best Humor Columnist award from the
National Newspaper Association.

"Tony Bender's cult-humorist, prairie-celebrity persona is nice, but listen closer. Recent visits we've had indicate to me that Tony's expectations for himself, and his writing, are soaring. Oh, he'll fashion the vivid rib ticklers from the ordinary stuff of Dakota life, but lately he's looking deeper. We're the better for that."

"Life up our way depends on this bench sitting,clutch grinding, tear wiping, baby boomer wordsmith. Values that matter that propel communities get preserved and passed along through Tony's words. Every morning at daybreak, fingering the keyboard, cup of strong coffee steaming close by, Tony Bender binds us, nudges us ahead. His knack for making us chuckle is mere icing on the cake."

Kent Brick, Editor, North Dakota Living

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