This week we visit with Michael Amos Cody in Johnson City, Tennessee.
Michael Amos Cody was born in the South Carolina Lowcountry and raised in the North Carolina highlands. He spent his twenties writing songs in Nashville and his thirties in school. He’s the author of the novels Streets of Nashville (Madville Publishing) and Gabriel’s Songbook (Pisgah Press) and short fiction that has appeared in Yemassee, Tampa Review, Still: The Journal, and elsewhere. His short story collection, A Twilight Reel (Pisgah Press) won the Short Story / Anthology category of the Feathered Quill Book Awards 2022. Cody lives with his wife Leesa in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and teaches in the Department of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University.
For more on Michael: michaelamoscody.com
Michael's Books on the Bed:
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown
Merciful Days by Jesse Graves
This House of Sky by Ivan Doig
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke
Matt's Gifts for Michael:
Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie
The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook
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