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A great resource page about Silas is now up at MUSE

Read an excerpt from SOMETHING’S RISING in Flourish Magazine here

Silas has accepted the position of NEH Chair in Appalachian Studies at Berea College. Read about it here.

Silas, The Good, in LEO

A beautifully-written radio review of ELI on Around Cincinnati

Silas House is in this excellent movie, which will premiere on PBS’s Independent Lens series this fall:

Silas House is now the fiction editor for the new online journal, STILL .

Eli the Good reviews: The Courier Journal

Foreword Magazine

Chapter 16

Goodreads

Read Silas’s essay “The Dirt On Coal” in Sierra Magazine

Silas interviewed on Tonic

Something’s Rising is getting reviews from all over the place, including starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist:

Southern Living The Washington Times Pop Matters

Courier Journal Red Room Charleston Gazette Asheville Citizen

-NPR interview with Silas House & Jason Howard about Something’s Rising

ACE cover story on Silas

-Courier Journal feature on Silas

-Eli the Good will be published in September 2009

-Silas’s poem “15 November 2008” is in the latest edition of Appalachian Heritage

-Silas’s essay “The Dirt On Coal” is in the latest issue of Sierra magazine

-Silas’s short story, “Don’t Forget This Song” is in the latest issue of Smoky Mountain Living

-Silas was featured in the December 2008 issue of Southern Living

-Silas’s essay, “On God’s Creek,” is in the latest issue of The Louisville Review

-Silas’s feature article on mandolin player, singer, and actress Sierra Hull is in the new bookazine No Depression

-Silas has written the introduction to Kentucky Quilt Trails

-Silas does a voiceover in this movie.

-Silas’s new short story, “Don’t Forget This Song,” is in the new issue of Smoky Mountain Living.

-Silas has a new short story, “Equinox,” in the current issue of Wind

-Silas has written the foreword to Appalachia: Spirit of the Seasons, a beautiful book of photographs by Dean Hill

-Something’s Rising to be published in March 2009

-Eli the Good to be published in Fall 2009

-Mark your calendars…Silas’s new play, Long Time Travelling (formerly titled The Cool of the Day), will premiere on April 25, 2009 at Lexington Actors Guild Theatre in Lexington, Kentucky. The play will run through May 18.

-Silas’s hit play The Hurting Part is now out in a book that also includes the short story upon which it was based, a long essay about the writing of the play, and Silas’s longest published interview.

-Silas was recently presented with the prestigious Helen Lewis Award for Community Service by the Appalachian Studies Association.

-Eli the Good is coming out in Fall 2009. The novel was recently acquired by Candlewick Press, the publishing house that brought you Because of Winn Dixie.

-March 2009 will hold another publication for Silas when the book Something’s Rising, will be released. The book, written with journalist and activist Jason Howard, profiles eleven Appalachians who are speaking out against mountaintop removal mining.

-Check out Silas’s Blog-A Country Boy Can Surmise

Eli the Good Update

Silas’s fourth novel, Eli the Good, was supposed to be out in Fall 2007. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the book will not be out until 2009. We apologize for the delay. The novel is the story of 10 year-old Eli Book who, during the Bicentennial Summer of 1976, watches as his family deconstructs around him. There is his beautiful and distant mother, Loretta; his troubled father, Stanton, who is just coming to terms with his time in Vietnam; Eli’s wild and confused sister Josie, who is questioning everything about herself and everyone around her; Eli’s beloved aunt Nell, a former war protester who moves in with them under mysterious circumstances; Eli’s tough and determined best friend Edie, who is the only person with whom he can completely be himself. Eli the Good is a tender look at childhood and all its complexities, as well as the terrible nature of the wars that occur on a global scale as well as the wars that are waged in people’s own homes. Told in a voice as memorable as Scout’s or Huck Finn’s, Eli the Good is filled with music that will take you back to that time, all the sense of place that House has become known for, and characters who will haunt you always.

Special Guest at Anniversary Concert

Silas recently appeared as a special guest at the 30th anniversary concert for the Reel World String Band, at the University of Kentucky’s Singletary Center for the Arts recital hall. For more information on the Reel World String Band, visit their website.