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South Dakota Festival of Books - Michael Perry and The Long Beds
For a look at lifes lighter side, plan to hear author and humorist Michael Perry with his band The Long Beds on Saturday night at 8 p.m. His books include Truck: A Love Story, and Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting.
About Michael Perry
Michael Perry is a humorist and author of the bestselling memoirs Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time and Truck: A Love Story, the essay collection Off Main Street, and the upcoming memoir Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting. Perry has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Backpacker, Orion and Salon.com, and is a contributing editor to Mens Health. His essays have been heard on NPRs All Things Considered and he has performed and produced two live audience recordings (I Got It From the Cows and Never Stand Behind a Sneezing Cow). Perry lives in rural Wisconsin , where he remains active with the local volunteer rescue service. He can be found online at www.sneezingcow.com
Raised on a small dairy farm, Perry equates his writing career to cleaning calf pens just keep shoveling, and eventually youve got a pile so big, someone will notice. Perry further prepared for the writing life by reading every Louis LAmour cowboy book he could get his hands on most of them twice. He then worked for five summers on a real ranch in Wyoming , a career cut short by his fear of horses and an incident in which he almost avoided a charging bull. Based on a series of informal conversations held around the ol branding fire, Perry still holds the record for being the only cowboy in all of Wyoming who was simultaneously attending nursing school, from which he graduated in 1987 after giving the commencement address in a hairdo combining mousse spikes on top, a mullet in back, and a moustache up front otherwise known as the bad hair trifecta. Recently Perry has begun to lose his hair, and although his current classification varies depending on the lighting, he is definitely Bald Man Walking.
Perry has run a forklift, operated a backhoe, driven truck, worked as a proofreader and physical therapy aide and has distinguished himself as a licensed cycle rider by careening into a concrete bridge completely unassisted. He has worked for a surgeon, answered a suicide hotline, picked rock in the rain with an alcoholic transvestite, was a country music roadie in Switzerland , and once worked as a roller-skating Snoopy. He can run a pitchfork, milk a cow in the dark, and say I dont understand in French, Greek and Norwegian. He has never been bucked off a horse, and contends that falling off doesnt count. He is utterly unable to polka.
About The Long Beds
The Long Beds are a rotating cast of characters who basically consent to stare at the backside of Michael Perry so he can pretend he's a musician, which he's not. He likes to write songs and sing them, and knows maybe five chords, but he plays his guitar with all the nuance of a man cutting brush. The Long Beds, on the other hand, are real pros. And charitable.
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LocationDeadwood Gulch Convention Center
304 Cliff St.
Deadwood, SD 57734
United States
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