In Sunday’s Gazette-Mail, Cody Corliss reviewed the second effort from Huntington native Glenn Taylor: “The Marrowbone Marble Company.”

Taylor’s first novel, “The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart,” was a “bawdy chronicle” with “pitch-perfect storytelling,” Corliss says. It was also a  finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2009. But “Marrowbone” is a more serious story, he says, “firmly rooted in the West Virginia soil.” Even if it doesn’t quite measure up to Taylor’s debut, it’s a story that “will resonate with many readers, and particularly those who enjoy fine writing set in the Mountain State.”

Also, Taylor talks about second novels and the writing life here, at PublishingPerspectives.com.

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