Danger, Man Working: Writing from the Heart, the Gut, and the Poison Ivy Patch
The pieces gathered within this book 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.")
