{"product_id":"danger-man-working-book-michael-perry-9780870208409","title":"Danger, Man Working","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Every writer has advice for aspiring writers. Mine is predicated on formative years spent cleaning my father's calf pens: Just keep shoveling until you've got a pile so big, someone has to notice. The fact that I cast my life's work as slung manure simply proves that I recognize an apt metaphor when I accidentally stick it with a pitchfork. . . . Poetry was my first love, my gateway drug--still the poets are my favorites--but I quickly realized I lacked the chops or insights to survive on verse alone. But I wanted to write. Every day. And so I read everything I could about freelancing, and started shoveling.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The pieces gathered within this book draw on fifteen years of what 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, and 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49989464424721,"sku":"CIN0870208403G","price":5.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51416569446673,"sku":"CIN0870208403VG","price":3.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0870208403.jpg?v=1786135712","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/danger-man-working-book-michael-perry-9780870208409","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}