Michael Perry, Author . Harper Perennial $13.95 (284p) ISBN 978-0-06-075550-8
Perry, who chronicled smalltown life in Population 451
, collects some previously published essays for this countrified collection. The author likes to write about bighearted truckers, country and blues musicians, itinerant barnyard butchers and...
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Michael Perry, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-06-057117-7
A part-time emergency medical technician, Perry delivers the latest account of his somewhat idiosyncratic life and times in a small Wisconsin town ("I am happy to live in a place where I can chuck a washing machine out my back door and no one...
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Mike Perry, Author, Michael Perry, Author . HarperCollins $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-019852-7
When writer Perry returned to his tiny childhood town, New Auburn, Wisc., after 12 years away, he joined the village's volunteer fire and rescue department. Six years later, he'd begun to understand at last that "to truly live in a place,
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Michael Perry, Author . HarperCollins $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-124043-0
Perry (Population: 485
) is that nowadays rare memoirist whose eccentric upbringing inspires him to humor and sympathetic insight instead of trauma mongering and self-pity. His latest essays chronicle a year on 37 acres of land with his wife,...
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Michael Perry, Author Princeton Architectural Press $35 (253p) ISBN 978-1-56898-757-6
Today, notes contributor Jim Datz in his intro, drawing patterns with the fallible human hand is an art perched at the treacherous meeting place of authentic human craftsmanship and a world largely defined by trendsetting and online consumption:...
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Michael Perry. Harper, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-189444-2
Tom is 82-year-old Tom Hartwig, who lives in a classic twin-porched Wisconsin clapboard farmhouse down the road from Perry, his wife and daughters. As Perry puts it, “We live on a farm, but I am not a farmer.” Instead, he plays music with his band,...
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Michael Perry. Harper, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-228991-9
Perry’s (Population: 485) latest is an amiable and quirky exploration of Christian beliefs, set against the backdrop of economically depressed rural Wisconsin. Bachelor Harley has been forced to sell portions of his family’s farm to developers over...
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