Books on the Bed
Matt Sawyer
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About This Podcast
Inspired by a visit to Tuskegee, Alabama in April of 2021, I’m traveling through the country asking our hosts, ”If I came to your town and stayed at your house, what books would you put on my bed?” Each host will share 6 books for me to carry with me on the journey of my life.
As we go, we’ll build a digital library for you to explore and find the stories that will part a curtain between us, make your heart shift, and change your life.
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Alice Martin
This week we visit with Alice Martin in Waynesville, North Carolina. Alice Martin is a writer, reader, and teacher from North Carolina. She holds a PhD in Literature from Rutgers University and works…
Nathaniel Roy
This week we visit with Nathaniel Roy in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Nathaniel Roy is a book designer, collage maker, photo taker, self-publisher, and a few other things. He's a graphic designer who…
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
This week we visit with Ashleigh Bryant Phillips in Asheville, North Carolina. Ashleigh Bryant Phillips is from rural Woodland, North Carolina. She's a graduate of Meredith College and earned an MFA…
Nilo Tabrizy
This week we visit with Nilo Tabrizy in Brooklyn, New York. Nilo Tabrizy is the co-author (with Fatemeh Jamalpour) of For the Sun After Long Nights, a moving exploration of the 2022 women-led…
Tessa Fontaine
This week we visit with Tessa Fontaine in Asheville, North Carolina. Tessa Fontaine is the author of The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts and The Red Grove, her debut novel. Raised…
Andrea L. Rogers
This week we visit with Andrea L. Rogers in Mountainburg, Arkansas. Andrea L. Rogers is an award-winning author of historical and contemporary fiction across a variety of genres. Her first book,…
Michael Amos Cody
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…
Nic Brown
This week we visit with Nic Brown in Clemson, South Carolina. Nic Brown is a writer and a musician. He has published several books, including the memoir Bang Bang Crash (Counterpoint 2023), which…
Toni Jensen
This week we visit with Toni Jensen in Springdale, Arkansas. Toni Jensen’s Carry is a memoir-in-essays about gun violence, land and Indigenous women’s lives (Ballantine 2020). An NEA Creative…
Damon Young
This week we visit with Damon Young in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh writer DAMON YOUNG’s debut memoir, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays (Ecco), won…
Kevin Brockmeier
This week we visit with Kevin Brockmeier in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. In addition to his latest book, The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories, Kevin Brockmeier is the author of the…
Jen Fawkes
This week we visit with Jen Fawkes in her hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. Jen Fawkes is the author of Daughters of Chaos, a literary alternate history in which a female Union spy discovers a…
Amy Le Ann Richardson
This week we visit with Amy Le Ann Richardson in Carter County, Kentucky. Amy Le Ann Richardson earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Spalding University (‘09) and is the author of two poetry…
Kristen Renee Miller
This week we visit with Kristen Renee Miller in Louisville, Kentucky. KRISTEN RENEE MILLER is the director and editor-in-chief at Sarabande Books. An award-winning poet and translator, she is a 2023…
Isa Arsén
This week we visit with Isa Arsén in San Antonio, Texas. Isa Arsén is a certified bleeding heart based in South Texas, where she lives with her spouse and a comically small dog. Her work has been…
Naomi Shihab Nye
This week we visit with Naomi Shihab Nye in San Antonio, Texas. Naomi Shihab Nye describes herself as a “wandering poet.” She has spent more than 40 years traveling the country and the world to lead…
Elizabeth Crook
This week we visit with Elizabeth Crook in Austin, Texas. Elizabeth Crook is the author of six novels: The Raven’s Bride and Promised Lands, The Night Journal, Monday, Monday, The Which Way Tree,…
Henry Wise
This week we visit with Henry Wise in Staunton, Virginia. Henry is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and the University of Mississippi MFA program. A writer across multiple genres, his…
Glenn Taylor
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…
Ann Pancake
This week we visit with Ann Pancake in Reedsville, West Virginia. Ann Pancake grew up in Summersville and Romney, West Virginia and graduated from WVU with a Bachelor of Arts in English. After…
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Books on the Bed has published 36 episodes since August 2024, covering topics in Arts, Books.
Books on the Bed is currently moderate with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 1h 42m.
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