Hunker
Brief Essays on Human Connection
1st Edition
Published on 25. July 2022
177 pages
978-1-7348683-7-1 (ISBN)
Description
Another in a series (including From the Top, Roughneck Grace, Million Billion, and Peaceful Persistence) of collected brief essays by New York Times bestselling author and humorist Michael Perry. "e,Although these pieces were written during times of unrest and pandemic, they drew on human connection,"e, says Perry. "e,Week after week, slowly at first, and then regularly, I received messages, emails, comments, and sometimes even a handwritten note from readers who weren't looking to me for advice or a 'take' on the latest news blast or controversy or tragedy or variant. Instead they said they were grateful for a brief break from it all. Something to go with their morning coffee. Something to read before bed. Something heartfelt, something goofy. Something that was anything but that other thing. Something to lighten the hunker."e,
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Person
Michael Perry is a New York Times bestselling author, humorist, playwright, and radio show host from New Auburn, Wisconsin. Perry's bestselling memoirs include Population: 485 (recently adapted for the stage), Truck: A Love Story, Coop, Visiting Tom, and Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy. Among his other numerous titles are The Scavengers (for young readers) and his novel The Jesus Cow. He can be found online at www.SneezingCow.com
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Cow Barn Scent
- Right Now
- Monopoly
- Peepers and Phone Calls
- Late Snow
- Coop Move
- Sharpening the Saw
- Cut the Notch
- Letters
- Garden in the Rain
- Voltaire Is Dead
- Not Monochromatic
- Potato Bugs
- Birdfight
- Plinko Time
- Hanif and the Birds
- Ennio Morricone
- Wren Parents
- Self-help Rooster
- Screen Door Spring
- Virtual School
- FOMO
- Camping
- Big Sky
- Songwriter
- The Apple Game
- Massage Music
- Beans
- One More Apple Tree
- Truck Bed Trailer
- Blue Tarp
- Frost
- Unguarded
- Deadlift
- Tomatoes
- Sandhill Cranes
- Deer Hunting
- Not a Pig Farmer
- Humility
- Dry Ice
- End of Year
- New Music
- Ice Skating
- Woodshed Doors
- The Descent
- Memory Potholes
- Award
- Frozen Pipes
- Laser Cat
- Antifragile Snowdancer
- Happy Days Painting
- The Cardinal
- Pruning Antlers
- Royal's Luck
- Black Dog
- Laundry Line
- Sunk Cost
- April Snowflake
- Phone Rescue
- Straw Bales
- Electricity
- Sentimentality
- Fire Circle
- Dunkin' Dozer
- The Wave
- Van Again
- Head Butt
- The Fire Hall
- Fourth of July
- Scanned
- Hummingbird Hostas
- Redeye
- Fair Gig
- Running Trail
- Chicken Divestiture
- Splitter
- Field Trip
- Potatoes
- Mushrooming
- Lambeau
- Fool for Football
- Swing Set, Swung Set
- Fishing Fallout
- Moon Moves
- Los Angeles Again
- Last of the Leaves
- Throwbackhoe
- Winter Warning
- Blaze Orange
- Budgetary Concerns
- Firewood Sled
- Ice Fishing
- Failing Farmhouse
- Swingset Reset
- Orwell
- About the Author
