Michael Perry The New Tent Show Radio Host

"I've long enjoyed attending shows at the Big Top Chautauqua. In fact, in Truck I wrote several pages about a Greg Brown show my wife and I saw at the Big Top," said Perry. "Between the live music of the Blue Canvas Orchestra and guests ranging from Joan Baez to Willie Nelson, I'll share my thoughts on things like cheap cereal, Cheesehead Spanglish, and the smell of tromped grass. I'll also provide strikingly original comments along the lines of: 'Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome [insert music star name here].'"

Michael Perry is a humorist and author of the bestselling memoir Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, and the essay collection Off Main Street. Perry has written for Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Outside, Backpacker, Orion and Salon.com, and is a contributing editor to Men's Health.