The Knoxville Public Library will host author Mike Perry tonight as part of the Knoxville Reads program.

The event will start at 6:30 and there will then be a meet and greet with Perry at A&P Pub starting at 8:00 pm. Michael Perry is an accidental New York Times bestselling author, corporate speaker, humorist, singer/songwriter, amateur snow plow driver, and playwright from New Auburn, Wisconsin. He also produces the popular audio newsletter “Michael Perry’s Voice Mail”. His essays and nonfiction have appeared in Esquire, Backpacker, Outside and Runner’s World, and he is the author of many best selling memoirs, essays and books.

Raised on a small Midwestern dairy farm, Perry put himself through nursing school while working on a ranch in Wyoming, then detoured into writing. Perry’s bestselling memoirs include Population: 485 (subsequently adapted for the stage), Truck: A Love Story, Coop, Visiting Tom, and Montaigne in Barn Boots. Among his other dozen titles are The Scavengers (for young readers), his novel The Jesus Cow, Peaceful Persistence, Hunker, and his most recent book, the novella Forty Acres Deep. Perry says he is looking forward to a fun night in Knoxville.

“It’s a little more like a roughneck stand up. I don’t take myself too seriously. I try to write beautiful things and heartfelt things, but I also like to write goofy things. Honestly one of the best things you can do is go to my website sneezingcow.com and if you read my bio and scroll down right away there is a summary of the things I do. I’m a guy that will show up in my jeans and just try and have a nice evening shooting the breeze with folks and hopefully giving them some laughs and connect with them on a personal level. I think we’re all kind of hungry for that these days.”

Hear more from Perry on today’s Let’s Talk Knoxville.