This week we visit with Glenn Taylor in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Glenn Taylor’s fourth novel, "The Songs of Betty Baach" won the 2023 Juniper Prize in Fiction. His first novel, "The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart" was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award. Glenn’s work has appeared in such venues as the Oxford American, The Guardian, Gulf Coast, and Huizache. Born and raised in Huntington, West Virginia, he now resides with his family in Morgantown, where he is at work on a new novel.
For more on Glenn: glenntaylorbooks.org
Glenn's Books on the Bed:
The Milkweed Ladies by Louise McNeill
good woman: poems and a memoir by Lucille Clifton
Gringos by Charles Portis
Trampoline by Robert Gipe
Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone by Eduardo Galeano
Road-side Dog by Czeslaw Milosz
Matt's Gifts for Glenn:
God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas
The Way the Moon by Holly Haworth
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