-A Publisher's Weekly "Buzz Book"
-A Southern Living Best Book of Summer
-An Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Association
-Hear Silas read seven new poems by Wendell Berry for Oxford American.
-Silas House was recently inducted into The Fellowship of Southern Writers. Full details.
-Click here to read "Watershed" a long feature by Silas House in the new issue of Oxford American about the power and importance of music.
-"The Devil and Aunt Sis", a new essay by
Silas House
-"We Got Lucky: My Life With Tom Petty", an essay by
Silas House
-A recent interview with Silas on the podcast "Five Things".
-Silas's conversation with Jason Isbell.
-A feature story on the new play by Silas House and Sam Gleaves, In These Fields.
-A Novel Approach, a documentary about Silas House, came out about ten years ago and is now available to watch for free online at KET.
-Silas's conversation with Brian Reed, the host of "S-Town".
-Silas's conversation with writer Chris Offutt.
-Silas's conversation with musician Jim James.
-It's the tenth anniversary of The Seeing White radio documentary about Corbin, Kentucky, and Silas House is part of it.
-Silas recently premiered his play, In These Fields, which he wrote with songwriter Sam Gleaves, in Oxford, Mississippi to a standing ovation in the Lyric Theater.
-Silas's conversation with writer Brad Watson.
-Silas recently received his third honorary degree. This time from Transylvania University.
-The new short story by Silas House, "Another Country," is a contemporary Appalachian retelling of James Joyce's "The Dead" and was recently published in Blackbird.
-Eli the Good is the selection for the Community Read for nine continuous counties in Kentucky for the month of October. Find out more about it.
-Read Silas's acclaimed analysis of the music of the television series Fargo, which was published in Salon and features an interview with star Patrick Wilson and music supervisor Maggie Phillips.
-Silas's powerful new essay about Age Segregation in The New York Times
-In a feature for Salon, Silas looks at the new film Big Stone Gap and its representation of the rural working class.
-Silas is now on Tumblr
-Silas is the winner of the prestigious Caritas Medal
-Read Silas's tribute to the late, legendary Jean Ritchie.
-Watch Silas House and Barbara Kingsolver in a public conversation.
-Do you have a copy of Silas's limited edition play, This Is My Heart For You? Get it here.
-This piece by Silas in The New York Times has ignited a national conversation.
-Silas's coauthor on Same Sun Here, Neela Vaswani is a winner for the Grammy Award for her latest audio book, I Am Malala. Congratulations, Neela!
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Silas's essay "The Indulgence of Pickled Baloney" was first published in GRAVY, then featured on CNN, and has now been chosen for inclusion in the Best Food Writing of 2014 anthology!
-Silas House's award-winning play This Is My Heart for You has just been released in a signed and hand-numbered limited edition from Berea College Press. Order yours here. Limited supply.
-Silas has responded to the controversial article "What's the Matter with Eastern Kentucky" in a sensitive and blistering essay that has gone viral and was recently published in the Courier Journal. Read the original blog entry here.
-Silas's essay "The Indulgence of Pickled Baloney" was recently published in Gravy magazine and is now being featured on CNN.
-Same Sun Here is one of the most celebrated books of the year, winning ten major awards including the Nautilus Award, an E.B. White Honor Book Award, the Parents' Choice Award, a SABA Honor Book, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, and others. SSH was also an Okra Pick, and was the #1 pick by independent booksellers as their most recommended book.
-Purchase Two Stories, an audio book of two of Silas's most popular stories, read by the author himself.
-Silas House's "Tell Their Secrets" was recently published in The New York Times. Read it here.
-Silas House and co-author Neela Vaswani win the highest honor in the world for audio books! Their narration of Same Sun Here has garnered them "the Oscar of the audiobook world" with a 2012 Audie Award. The audio recording of SSH was already the recipient of an Earphones Award.
-Same Sun Here is a member of the Stars So Far Club for receiving multiple starred reviews in major publications.
-Eli the Good is the 2013 Wilkes Reads Together pick.
-Silas House's essay "The Art of Being Still" is one of the New York Times most shared pieces this week! Have you read it yet?
-SAME SUN HERE is the 2012 Winner of the PARENTS' CHOICE Fiction Award (10 & Up)!
-SAME SUN HERE has won an Earphones Award for audio recording by an author-narrator. Congratulations to Silas and Neela!
-Silas has just been booked at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival with Michael Cunningham and others in March 2013. Order your tickets now.
-Want your copy of SAME SUN HERE (or other books) signed and/or personalized? You may send them to Silas at PO Box 1121, Berea, KY 40403 along with signing instructions and a self-addressed, stamped envelope, and he will sign and send right back to you.
-Silas House encourages you to do all of your book shopping at a local independent bookseller. To buy Silas's books from the indy store nearest you, go to The Silas House Page of Indiebound.org .
-Silas' radio show, HILLBILLY SOLID, was recently picked up by another radio station, more than doubling its listening area. Our latest guest was actress, humanitarian, writer, and all-around great human being, Ashley Judd. You can listen to HILLBILLY SOLID anytime here.
-Silas is hard at work on his new novel, LITTLE FIRE, which he hopes to finish this fall.
-SAME SUN HERE has received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly!
-SAME SUN HERE has been selected as a 2012 Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Association!
-Salon says ELI THE GOOD deserves to be the next big blockbuster film!
-Silas has recently posted his favorite films and music of the year on his blog. Subscribe to keep up with his latest posts.
-You can listen to archives of Silas's hit show HILLBILLY SOLID anytime by going to the Hillbilly Solid archives.
-Silas House has been awarded the prestigious Lee Smith Award.
-Did you miss House's powerful editorial in The New York Times?
-A great feature on Chinaberry can be found here.
-Eli the Good ("Destined to become a classic," says Good Reads), is now available in paperback, audio (read by the author), and hardcover.
-Something's Rising (hailed as a "revelatory work" by none other than Studs Terkel) is now available in paperback.
-Ashley Judd's popular website features a rousing speech by Silas House.
-Larkspur Press has released limited-edition copy of House's story "Recruiters" in book-form.
-A Southern Living Best Book of Summer
-An Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Association
-Hear Silas read seven new poems by Wendell Berry for Oxford American.
-Silas House was recently inducted into The Fellowship of Southern Writers. Full details.
-Click here to read "Watershed" a long feature by Silas House in the new issue of Oxford American about the power and importance of music.
-"The Devil and Aunt Sis", a new essay by
Silas House
-"We Got Lucky: My Life With Tom Petty", an essay by
Silas House
-A recent interview with Silas on the podcast "Five Things".
-Silas's conversation with Jason Isbell.
-A feature story on the new play by Silas House and Sam Gleaves, In These Fields.
-A Novel Approach, a documentary about Silas House, came out about ten years ago and is now available to watch for free online at KET.
-Silas's conversation with Brian Reed, the host of "S-Town".
-Silas's conversation with writer Chris Offutt.
-Silas's conversation with musician Jim James.
-It's the tenth anniversary of The Seeing White radio documentary about Corbin, Kentucky, and Silas House is part of it.
-Silas recently premiered his play, In These Fields, which he wrote with songwriter Sam Gleaves, in Oxford, Mississippi to a standing ovation in the Lyric Theater.
-Silas's conversation with writer Brad Watson.
-Silas recently received his third honorary degree. This time from Transylvania University.
-The new short story by Silas House, "Another Country," is a contemporary Appalachian retelling of James Joyce's "The Dead" and was recently published in Blackbird.
-Eli the Good is the selection for the Community Read for nine continuous counties in Kentucky for the month of October. Find out more about it.
-Read Silas's acclaimed analysis of the music of the television series Fargo, which was published in Salon and features an interview with star Patrick Wilson and music supervisor Maggie Phillips.
-Silas's powerful new essay about Age Segregation in The New York Times
-In a feature for Salon, Silas looks at the new film Big Stone Gap and its representation of the rural working class.
-Silas is now on Tumblr
-Silas is the winner of the prestigious Caritas Medal
-Read Silas's tribute to the late, legendary Jean Ritchie.
-Watch Silas House and Barbara Kingsolver in a public conversation.
-Do you have a copy of Silas's limited edition play, This Is My Heart For You? Get it here.
-This piece by Silas in The New York Times has ignited a national conversation.
-Silas's coauthor on Same Sun Here, Neela Vaswani is a winner for the Grammy Award for her latest audio book, I Am Malala. Congratulations, Neela!
-
Silas's essay "The Indulgence of Pickled Baloney" was first published in GRAVY, then featured on CNN, and has now been chosen for inclusion in the Best Food Writing of 2014 anthology!
-Silas House's award-winning play This Is My Heart for You has just been released in a signed and hand-numbered limited edition from Berea College Press. Order yours here. Limited supply.
-Silas has responded to the controversial article "What's the Matter with Eastern Kentucky" in a sensitive and blistering essay that has gone viral and was recently published in the Courier Journal. Read the original blog entry here.
-Silas's essay "The Indulgence of Pickled Baloney" was recently published in Gravy magazine and is now being featured on CNN.
-Same Sun Here is one of the most celebrated books of the year, winning ten major awards including the Nautilus Award, an E.B. White Honor Book Award, the Parents' Choice Award, a SABA Honor Book, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, and others. SSH was also an Okra Pick, and was the #1 pick by independent booksellers as their most recommended book.
-Purchase Two Stories, an audio book of two of Silas's most popular stories, read by the author himself.
-Silas House's "Tell Their Secrets" was recently published in The New York Times. Read it here.
-Silas House and co-author Neela Vaswani win the highest honor in the world for audio books! Their narration of Same Sun Here has garnered them "the Oscar of the audiobook world" with a 2012 Audie Award. The audio recording of SSH was already the recipient of an Earphones Award.
-Same Sun Here is a member of the Stars So Far Club for receiving multiple starred reviews in major publications.
-Eli the Good is the 2013 Wilkes Reads Together pick.
-Silas House's essay "The Art of Being Still" is one of the New York Times most shared pieces this week! Have you read it yet?
-SAME SUN HERE is the 2012 Winner of the PARENTS' CHOICE Fiction Award (10 & Up)!
-SAME SUN HERE has won an Earphones Award for audio recording by an author-narrator. Congratulations to Silas and Neela!
-Silas has just been booked at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival with Michael Cunningham and others in March 2013. Order your tickets now.
-Want your copy of SAME SUN HERE (or other books) signed and/or personalized? You may send them to Silas at PO Box 1121, Berea, KY 40403 along with signing instructions and a self-addressed, stamped envelope, and he will sign and send right back to you.
-Silas House encourages you to do all of your book shopping at a local independent bookseller. To buy Silas's books from the indy store nearest you, go to The Silas House Page of Indiebound.org .
-Silas' radio show, HILLBILLY SOLID, was recently picked up by another radio station, more than doubling its listening area. Our latest guest was actress, humanitarian, writer, and all-around great human being, Ashley Judd. You can listen to HILLBILLY SOLID anytime here.
-Silas is hard at work on his new novel, LITTLE FIRE, which he hopes to finish this fall.
-SAME SUN HERE has received a starred review in Publisher's Weekly!
-SAME SUN HERE has been selected as a 2012 Okra Pick by the Southern Independent Booksellers Association!
-Salon says ELI THE GOOD deserves to be the next big blockbuster film!
-Silas has recently posted his favorite films and music of the year on his blog. Subscribe to keep up with his latest posts.
-You can listen to archives of Silas's hit show HILLBILLY SOLID anytime by going to the Hillbilly Solid archives.
-Silas House has been awarded the prestigious Lee Smith Award.
-Did you miss House's powerful editorial in The New York Times?
-A great feature on Chinaberry can be found here.
-Eli the Good ("Destined to become a classic," says Good Reads), is now available in paperback, audio (read by the author), and hardcover.
-Something's Rising (hailed as a "revelatory work" by none other than Studs Terkel) is now available in paperback.
-Ashley Judd's popular website features a rousing speech by Silas House.
-Larkspur Press has released limited-edition copy of House's story "Recruiters" in book-form.
