Michael Perry

Michael Perry's Voice Mail | Substack

by Michael Perry

About Michael Perry

What is Michael Perry's Voice Mail?

Once a week, New York Times bestselling author Michael Perry sits down in the little writing room above his garage and records a voice mail version of one of his “Roughneck Grace” columns, or a passage from one of his 20-plus books, or shares a passage from a book or a song that’s not out yet, or goes on an unscripted ramble about how things are going behind the scenes (including photos) and then reflects on things in general.

Each episode now includes “Mike’s Marginalia. ” Marginalia are the little notes we make while reading a book. Sometimes in the margin, sometimes between the lines, sometimes on a separate scrap of paper, sometimes in a journal, or—more and more frequently, in Mike’s case—electronically in an eBook.

“Over the years I’ve created miles and miles of marginalia…and revisited only a fraction of them (it?