In Drew Perry’s new novel, Kids These Days, an expectant father is paralyzed by the idea of taking responsibility for another human life when he can’t seem to manage his own. While Perry, the father of two young boys, drew from real life while writing the book, he also finds inspiration in less conventional sources.Continue reading

  Lest one think being a published author is all bubbles and brownies, consider all the work author Drew Perry  put into nailing down the perfect title for his just-published novel. Kids These Days takes aim at the two sides of a man’s impending fatherhood: abject terror and unconditional love.  In an irony that probablyContinue reading

“Sometimes when mommies and daddies love each other very much…” Sometimes they make a baby. Sometimes they make a book. Drew Perry started writing Kids These Days when he was first facing fatherhood. He has faced it and he loves it and he’s still a bit afraid of it: “It can, in ways, be TheContinue reading

Drew Perry, author of the new novel Kids These Days, says Dave Barry’s Sunday columns were required reading in his household for years. “We’d fight for the paper,” he says. “We’d read them out loud. Then we’d read them again.” But it wasn’t until later on, after Perry started writing novels, that he recognized whatContinue reading