Michael Perry, author of
Danger, Man Working: Writing from the Heart, the Gut, and the Poison Ivy Patch

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."
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