Ricky Puffer standing outside in falling snow
Photo by Andy Ashley

From the stage / September 22, 2026

Some of the Kitchen Sink — Live Reading from JJ’s Tavern

Florence, Massachusetts · 65 minutes

Ricky Puffer reads from The Whole Kitchen Sink. Open full recording ↗

A short account

Ricky Puffer lives in the fictional town of Fishington, Massachusetts with his wife and two children, or at least did until the oldest one escaped to the West. He has been known to hitchhike around the country, build stone walls, climb mountains, play soccer, drive a team of draft horses, grow vegetables, log trees, refurbish old houses, walk in the woods, drink copious amounts of alcohol, dance madly to jam rock bands, meditate, practice yoga, and stretch the boundaries of the universe with mind-expanding drugs but, seeing as he is now only a shell of his former self, mostly just putters in the garden and writes books these days.