Episode #62 "Throwback Thanks"

2003. Still got the cap. Not the hair.

The book that went on the 40-city tour…and then just kept going.

Howdy folks:

Welcome to the Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 62. This one’s free for subscribers and non-subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.

Included in today’s installment: When a reader sent Mike an old magazine profile from 2003, he was caught off-guard by his reaction while reading it. “A truckload of emotions,” Mike says, “low-key but deep.” After reflecting on the unexpected life of Population 485 and everything after, Mike reads a favorite excerpt.

Special Voice Mail insider tid-bit: I got publicly yelled at (yah, at volume in a bookstore) after reading this passage in Madison, Wisconsin, by someone who loudly declared “You should NEVER smell dirt! You will inhale [pneumo-coccidio-whatsit-acidi-dosis*], get a lung infection, and DIE!”

*I may not have transcribed that properly.

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