Michael Perry, author of
​Danger, Man Working: Writing from the Heart, the Gut, and the Poison Ivy Patch
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The pieces gathered within Michael's new book, Danger, Man Working draw on fifteen years of what New York Times best-selling author Michael Perry calls "shovel time" - a writer going to work as the work is offered. The range of subjects is wide, from musky fishing, puking, mountain-climbing, Iraq War veterans to the frozen head of Ted Williams. Some assignments lead to self-examination of an alarming magnitude (as Perry notes, "It quickly becomes obvious that I am a self-absorbed hypochondriac forever resolving to do better nutritionally and fitness-wise but my follow-through is laughable.")

But his favorites are those that allow him to turn the lens outward: "My greatest privilege," he says, "lies not in telling my own story; it lies in being trusted to tell the story of another."
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Read about Michael's new book, Danger, Man Working
Read about Michael's upcoming release, Montaigne in Barn Boots
Read about Population 485: On Stage
Read Michael's Interview with 702WI
Read Michael's Interview in The Isthmus by Andy Moore

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