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Books on the Bed: Glenn Taylor
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Books on the Bed: Glenn Taylor

Featuring Louise McNeill, Lucille Clifton, Charles Portis, Robert Gipe, Eduardo Galeano, and Czeslaw Milosz.
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Matt & Glenn in Morgantown, West Virginia. February 2025.

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

Glenn's Books on the Bed

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