Silas House's contributions to NPR's "All Things Considered".
Abbreviated Bibliography
Lark Ascending, a novel, Algonquin Books, forthcoming September 2022
“Dreamchaser: Why I Love Naomi Judd”, essay, Garden and Gun, May 2022
“The Articulation of Longing”, feature, The Bitter Southerner, April 2022
“Neon Moon”, a short story, Tri-Quarterly, Issue 161, January 2022
The Old Ways, a short play, Athens West Theatre Company, December 2021
“Elegy for a School”, essay, Gravy, October 2021
“Some Americans No Longer Believe in the Common Good”, essay, The Atlantic,
August 2021
“A Warning from a Democrat in a Red State”, essay, The Atlantic, January 2021
“Crowded Table”, essay, Gravy, September 2020
“Trump Shows How Little He Cares for His Most Fervent Defenders”, essay, The
Atlantic, August 2020
“Recruiters”, short story, Writing Appalachia: An Anthology, edited by Katherine
Ledford and Theresa Lloyd, University Press of Kentucky
“Searching for Connection While Apart” essay, The Atlantic, March 2020
“The Poet of Place: Wendell Berry”, feature, Garden and Gun, March 2020
“Eastern Kentucky Has Been Underwater But You Probably Didn’t Notice”, essay, The
Atlantic, February 2020
“Jericho”, short story, Ecotone, February 2020
“Healing Notes”, feature, Garden and Gun, January 2020
“Escape”, essay, The Advocate, July 2019
“Buttigieg’s Visibility Gives Me Strength”, essay, Salon, May 2019
“Memory of Water”, essay, Gather at the River, edited by David Joy, May 2019
“How to be Beautiful”, short story, LGBTQ Appalachia, edited by Jeff Mann and Julia
Watts, February 2019
False Face, play, commissioned by the University of Kentucky Art Museum, September-
November 2018
“A Place for Us All”, essay, Time Magazine, July 2018
Southernmost, novel, Algonquin Books, June 2018
“The Masterpiece Decision Isn’t Harmless”, essay, New York Times, June 5, 2018
“The Canine Stand-In”, essay, Garden and Gun, May 2018
“Watershed”, feature story, Oxford American, November 2017
“The Devil and Aunt Sis: Horror Films and My Holiness Childhood”, essay, Salon,
October 2017
“We Got Lucky: My Life with Tom Petty”, essay, Appalachian Review, October 2017
“Jason Isbell Has Hope for the High Road”, interview/feature, Salon, May 2017
“Into the Hazelwood”, essay, Nowhere Magazine, November 2016
“Gather ‘Round the Jim James Campfire”, interview/feature, Salon, November 2016
“Brian Reed in S-Town”, interview/feature, Salon, October 2016
In These Fields: A Folk Opera, play written with Sam Gleaves, produced at the Southern
Foodways Alliance Conference, October 2016
Family of Strangers, play, staged reading, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, July
2016
“Rockhouse Bastard, 1935”, lyric essay, Pikeville Review, June 2016
“The Road Back: Appalachia as Internal Colony,” scholarly essay, The Journal of
Appalachian Studies, Spring 2016, Vol. 22, No. 1
“She Moves Through the Fair,” lyric essay, Kudzu, May 2016
“It Was Like an Overdose of Porn”, interview with Chris Offutt, Salon, 11 March 2016
“Another Country,” short story, Blackbird, November 2015
“The Sounds of Fargo”, feature, Salon, 23 November 2015
“Deliver Me From Deliverance”, feature, Salon, 25 October 2015
“The Forbidden Gods,” essay, Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the
Forbidden, Ohio University Press, edited by Karen McElmurray and Adrian
Blevins, September 2015
“The Growing Generational Divide,” essay, The New York Times, May 8, 2015
“Their Secret Places in the Waiting World,” essay, Journal of Appalachian Studies,
edited by Shaunna Scott, January 2015
“Small Towns, Small Hearts” essay, The New York Times, October 22, 2014
“Afterword”, essay, Every Leaf A Mirror: The Jim Wayne Miller Reader, University
Press of Kentucky, edited by Morris Grubbs and Mary Ellen Miller, October 2014
“The Indulgence of Pickled Baloney,” essay, Best Food Writing 2014, October 1, 2014,
DaCapo Press, edited by Holly Hughes
This is My Heart For You, play, Berea College Press, July 30 2014
“Beshear Lawsuit Embarrasses State,” editorial, The Lexington Herald-Leader, May 13,
2014
“The Indulgence of Pickled Baloney,” essay, Gravy, April 28, 2014
“Rebel Belle: Interview with Kacey Musgraves,” feature story, Texas Music, January
2014, with co-author Caroline Herring
“The Knowing,” essay, This I Believe, edited by Dan and Mary Jo Gediman, Butler
Books, October 2013
"Tell Their Secrets", essay, The New York Times Sunday Review, July 14, 2013
“In My Own Country”, essay, Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community,
edited by Amy Clark and Nancy Hayward, University Press of Kentucky, March 2013
“The Art of Being Still,” essay, The New York Times Sunday Review, December 2012
“Singing the Stories Untold,” feature story, Sojourners, November 2012
“Equinox,” short story, Wind Magazine, Issue 96, August 2012
Same Sun Here, with co-author Neela Vaswani, novel, Candlewick Books, February
2012
Recruiters, short story in limited edition book form, Larkspur Press, November 2011
Chinaberry, edited by Silas House, written by James Still, The University Press of
Kentucky, March 2011
"My Polluted Kentucky Home," editorial, The New York Times, February 20, 2011
Coal Country (co-editor), nonfiction, Sierra Club Books, November 2009
Eli the Good, novel, Candlewick Books, September 2009
Long Time Travelling, play, produced at Lexington Actor’s Guild, April 2009
Something’s Rising, nonfiction book, University Press of Kentucky, March 2009
“The Dirt On Coal,” essay, Sierra, January 2009
“5 November 2008,” poem, Appalachian Heritage, Winter 2009
“At the Opening of Coal Miner’s Daughter, Corbin, Kentucky, March 27,
1980,” poem, Appalachian Heritage, Spring 2008
“Don’t Forget This Song,” short story, Smoky Mountain Living, Fall 2008
“Writing Stores,” essay, Kentucky Monthly, November 2008
“Three Fireballs, One Door, Seven Slams,” short story, Mountain
Mysteries II: The Unexplained, Ascended Idea Press, 2008
“On God’s Creek,” essay, The Louisville Review, Fall 2008
“Top Secret: Sierra Hull,” feature, No Depression (The Bookazine), The
University of Texas Press, 2008
The Hurting Part: Evolution of An American Play, multidisciplinary work
(play, short story, essay, interview), Motes Books, July 2008
“I’m With the Band: Dan Tyminski,” feature, No Depression, June 2008
“Equinox,” short story, Wind Magazine, Summer 2008
Introduction, The Well String, by Noel Smith, Motes Books, March 2008
“Morning Trees,” poem, Appalachian Heritage, Summer 2007
“Back In the Fold: Carlene Carter,” feature, No Depression, April 2007
“No Bible-Beating Allowed,” essay, Shouts and Whispers, Eerdman’s
Publishing Company, 2007
“Grandpa, Granny, and Hee Haw,” essay, No Depression December 2006
“Dreams So Real: Darrell Scott,” feature, No Depression, August 2006
“My Country Sister,” essay, Appalachian Heritage, Spring 2006
Introduction, The Life of Moses, by Saint Gregory of Nyssa, HarperCollins
Spiritual Classics, February 2006
“The Tree The Acorn Fell From: Wayne Scott,” feature, No Depression,
February 2006
The Hurting Part, play, produced at the University of Kentucky,
December 2005
“Happy Woman Blues: Lucinda Williams,” feature, The Best of No
Depression, The University of Texas Press, 2005
“A Place of Noble Trees,” essay, Of Woods and Water, University Press of
Kentucky, 2005
“It’s About the Music: Nickel Creek,” No Depression, October 2005
Foreword, Missing Mountains, edited by Kristin Johannsen, Bobbie Ann
Mason, and Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Wind Publications, October 2005
“Mule + Morning Glory,” short story, The Southeast Review, Fall 2005
Introduction, Earl Hamner, Jr.: Walton’s Mountain to Today, by James E.
Persons, Jr., Cumberland House, July 2005
“How Fried Chicken Saved My Family,” essay, Oxford American, Spring
2005
“Saints,” short story, High Horse, Fleur de Lis Press, 2005
“Remembering Larry Brown,” essay, No Depression, February 2005
“Coal Smoke,” short story, New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best,
2004, Algonquin Books, January 2005
“Well I Hate to See Your Evening Sun Sinking Down: Buddy Miller,”
feature, No Depression, October 2004
The Coal Tattoo, novel, Algonquin Books, September 2004
“Family Traditions: Dirk Powell,” feature, No Depression, June 2004
“The Cool of the Day,” short story, The Alumni Grill, MacAdam Cage
Publishing, 2004
“1976,” short story, Beloit Fiction Journal, Spring 2004
“A Remembrance of Things Past: Grey DeLisle,” feature, No Depression,
April 2004
“A Day With Lee Smith,” feature, Appalachian Heritage, Winter 2003
“The First Day,” short story, All Things Considered, NPR, September 2003
“Total Immersion,” short story, Night Train, Fall 2003
“The Cool of the Day,” short story, Bayou, Fall 2003
“Not Just a Simple Southern Belle: Claire Holley,” feature, No
Depression, August 2003.
“Coal Smoke,” short story, The Louisville Review, Spring 2003
“Gatlinburg,” short story, Stories From the Blue Moon Café II,
MacAdam/Cage Publishers, 2003
“Let the Good Times Roll: Delbert McClinton,” feature, No Depression,
December 2002
“Making Himself Heard,” feature, Appalachian Heritage, Fall 2002
“The Last Days,” short story, Stories From the Blue Moon Café,
MacAdam/Cage Publishers, 2002
A Parchment of Leaves, novel, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, August
2002
“Nothing to Fear: Kelly Willis,” feature, No Depression, August 2002
“The Third Man: Hank Williams III,” feature, No Depression, February 2002
“The November Snake,” short story, All Things Considered, NPR,
January 2002
“Music (The Revelator),” feature, No Depression, December 2001
“Summer Story,” short story, All Things Considered, NPR, August 2001
“Star Wars,” essay, All Things Considered, NPR, May 2001
Clay’s Quilt, novel, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, March 2001
“Canning,” short story, Appalachian Heritage, Fall 2000
Lark Ascending, a novel, Algonquin Books, forthcoming September 2022
“Dreamchaser: Why I Love Naomi Judd”, essay, Garden and Gun, May 2022
“The Articulation of Longing”, feature, The Bitter Southerner, April 2022
“Neon Moon”, a short story, Tri-Quarterly, Issue 161, January 2022
The Old Ways, a short play, Athens West Theatre Company, December 2021
“Elegy for a School”, essay, Gravy, October 2021
“Some Americans No Longer Believe in the Common Good”, essay, The Atlantic,
August 2021
“A Warning from a Democrat in a Red State”, essay, The Atlantic, January 2021
“Crowded Table”, essay, Gravy, September 2020
“Trump Shows How Little He Cares for His Most Fervent Defenders”, essay, The
Atlantic, August 2020
“Recruiters”, short story, Writing Appalachia: An Anthology, edited by Katherine
Ledford and Theresa Lloyd, University Press of Kentucky
“Searching for Connection While Apart” essay, The Atlantic, March 2020
“The Poet of Place: Wendell Berry”, feature, Garden and Gun, March 2020
“Eastern Kentucky Has Been Underwater But You Probably Didn’t Notice”, essay, The
Atlantic, February 2020
“Jericho”, short story, Ecotone, February 2020
“Healing Notes”, feature, Garden and Gun, January 2020
“Escape”, essay, The Advocate, July 2019
“Buttigieg’s Visibility Gives Me Strength”, essay, Salon, May 2019
“Memory of Water”, essay, Gather at the River, edited by David Joy, May 2019
“How to be Beautiful”, short story, LGBTQ Appalachia, edited by Jeff Mann and Julia
Watts, February 2019
False Face, play, commissioned by the University of Kentucky Art Museum, September-
November 2018
“A Place for Us All”, essay, Time Magazine, July 2018
Southernmost, novel, Algonquin Books, June 2018
“The Masterpiece Decision Isn’t Harmless”, essay, New York Times, June 5, 2018
“The Canine Stand-In”, essay, Garden and Gun, May 2018
“Watershed”, feature story, Oxford American, November 2017
“The Devil and Aunt Sis: Horror Films and My Holiness Childhood”, essay, Salon,
October 2017
“We Got Lucky: My Life with Tom Petty”, essay, Appalachian Review, October 2017
“Jason Isbell Has Hope for the High Road”, interview/feature, Salon, May 2017
“Into the Hazelwood”, essay, Nowhere Magazine, November 2016
“Gather ‘Round the Jim James Campfire”, interview/feature, Salon, November 2016
“Brian Reed in S-Town”, interview/feature, Salon, October 2016
In These Fields: A Folk Opera, play written with Sam Gleaves, produced at the Southern
Foodways Alliance Conference, October 2016
Family of Strangers, play, staged reading, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, July
2016
“Rockhouse Bastard, 1935”, lyric essay, Pikeville Review, June 2016
“The Road Back: Appalachia as Internal Colony,” scholarly essay, The Journal of
Appalachian Studies, Spring 2016, Vol. 22, No. 1
“She Moves Through the Fair,” lyric essay, Kudzu, May 2016
“It Was Like an Overdose of Porn”, interview with Chris Offutt, Salon, 11 March 2016
“Another Country,” short story, Blackbird, November 2015
“The Sounds of Fargo”, feature, Salon, 23 November 2015
“Deliver Me From Deliverance”, feature, Salon, 25 October 2015
“The Forbidden Gods,” essay, Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean: Meditations on the
Forbidden, Ohio University Press, edited by Karen McElmurray and Adrian
Blevins, September 2015
“The Growing Generational Divide,” essay, The New York Times, May 8, 2015
“Their Secret Places in the Waiting World,” essay, Journal of Appalachian Studies,
edited by Shaunna Scott, January 2015
“Small Towns, Small Hearts” essay, The New York Times, October 22, 2014
“Afterword”, essay, Every Leaf A Mirror: The Jim Wayne Miller Reader, University
Press of Kentucky, edited by Morris Grubbs and Mary Ellen Miller, October 2014
“The Indulgence of Pickled Baloney,” essay, Best Food Writing 2014, October 1, 2014,
DaCapo Press, edited by Holly Hughes
This is My Heart For You, play, Berea College Press, July 30 2014
“Beshear Lawsuit Embarrasses State,” editorial, The Lexington Herald-Leader, May 13,
2014
“The Indulgence of Pickled Baloney,” essay, Gravy, April 28, 2014
“Rebel Belle: Interview with Kacey Musgraves,” feature story, Texas Music, January
2014, with co-author Caroline Herring
“The Knowing,” essay, This I Believe, edited by Dan and Mary Jo Gediman, Butler
Books, October 2013
"Tell Their Secrets", essay, The New York Times Sunday Review, July 14, 2013
“In My Own Country”, essay, Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community,
edited by Amy Clark and Nancy Hayward, University Press of Kentucky, March 2013
“The Art of Being Still,” essay, The New York Times Sunday Review, December 2012
“Singing the Stories Untold,” feature story, Sojourners, November 2012
“Equinox,” short story, Wind Magazine, Issue 96, August 2012
Same Sun Here, with co-author Neela Vaswani, novel, Candlewick Books, February
2012
Recruiters, short story in limited edition book form, Larkspur Press, November 2011
Chinaberry, edited by Silas House, written by James Still, The University Press of
Kentucky, March 2011
"My Polluted Kentucky Home," editorial, The New York Times, February 20, 2011
Coal Country (co-editor), nonfiction, Sierra Club Books, November 2009
Eli the Good, novel, Candlewick Books, September 2009
Long Time Travelling, play, produced at Lexington Actor’s Guild, April 2009
Something’s Rising, nonfiction book, University Press of Kentucky, March 2009
“The Dirt On Coal,” essay, Sierra, January 2009
“5 November 2008,” poem, Appalachian Heritage, Winter 2009
“At the Opening of Coal Miner’s Daughter, Corbin, Kentucky, March 27,
1980,” poem, Appalachian Heritage, Spring 2008
“Don’t Forget This Song,” short story, Smoky Mountain Living, Fall 2008
“Writing Stores,” essay, Kentucky Monthly, November 2008
“Three Fireballs, One Door, Seven Slams,” short story, Mountain
Mysteries II: The Unexplained, Ascended Idea Press, 2008
“On God’s Creek,” essay, The Louisville Review, Fall 2008
“Top Secret: Sierra Hull,” feature, No Depression (The Bookazine), The
University of Texas Press, 2008
The Hurting Part: Evolution of An American Play, multidisciplinary work
(play, short story, essay, interview), Motes Books, July 2008
“I’m With the Band: Dan Tyminski,” feature, No Depression, June 2008
“Equinox,” short story, Wind Magazine, Summer 2008
Introduction, The Well String, by Noel Smith, Motes Books, March 2008
“Morning Trees,” poem, Appalachian Heritage, Summer 2007
“Back In the Fold: Carlene Carter,” feature, No Depression, April 2007
“No Bible-Beating Allowed,” essay, Shouts and Whispers, Eerdman’s
Publishing Company, 2007
“Grandpa, Granny, and Hee Haw,” essay, No Depression December 2006
“Dreams So Real: Darrell Scott,” feature, No Depression, August 2006
“My Country Sister,” essay, Appalachian Heritage, Spring 2006
Introduction, The Life of Moses, by Saint Gregory of Nyssa, HarperCollins
Spiritual Classics, February 2006
“The Tree The Acorn Fell From: Wayne Scott,” feature, No Depression,
February 2006
The Hurting Part, play, produced at the University of Kentucky,
December 2005
“Happy Woman Blues: Lucinda Williams,” feature, The Best of No
Depression, The University of Texas Press, 2005
“A Place of Noble Trees,” essay, Of Woods and Water, University Press of
Kentucky, 2005
“It’s About the Music: Nickel Creek,” No Depression, October 2005
Foreword, Missing Mountains, edited by Kristin Johannsen, Bobbie Ann
Mason, and Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Wind Publications, October 2005
“Mule + Morning Glory,” short story, The Southeast Review, Fall 2005
Introduction, Earl Hamner, Jr.: Walton’s Mountain to Today, by James E.
Persons, Jr., Cumberland House, July 2005
“How Fried Chicken Saved My Family,” essay, Oxford American, Spring
2005
“Saints,” short story, High Horse, Fleur de Lis Press, 2005
“Remembering Larry Brown,” essay, No Depression, February 2005
“Coal Smoke,” short story, New Stories From the South: The Year’s Best,
2004, Algonquin Books, January 2005
“Well I Hate to See Your Evening Sun Sinking Down: Buddy Miller,”
feature, No Depression, October 2004
The Coal Tattoo, novel, Algonquin Books, September 2004
“Family Traditions: Dirk Powell,” feature, No Depression, June 2004
“The Cool of the Day,” short story, The Alumni Grill, MacAdam Cage
Publishing, 2004
“1976,” short story, Beloit Fiction Journal, Spring 2004
“A Remembrance of Things Past: Grey DeLisle,” feature, No Depression,
April 2004
“A Day With Lee Smith,” feature, Appalachian Heritage, Winter 2003
“The First Day,” short story, All Things Considered, NPR, September 2003
“Total Immersion,” short story, Night Train, Fall 2003
“The Cool of the Day,” short story, Bayou, Fall 2003
“Not Just a Simple Southern Belle: Claire Holley,” feature, No
Depression, August 2003.
“Coal Smoke,” short story, The Louisville Review, Spring 2003
“Gatlinburg,” short story, Stories From the Blue Moon Café II,
MacAdam/Cage Publishers, 2003
“Let the Good Times Roll: Delbert McClinton,” feature, No Depression,
December 2002
“Making Himself Heard,” feature, Appalachian Heritage, Fall 2002
“The Last Days,” short story, Stories From the Blue Moon Café,
MacAdam/Cage Publishers, 2002
A Parchment of Leaves, novel, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, August
2002
“Nothing to Fear: Kelly Willis,” feature, No Depression, August 2002
“The Third Man: Hank Williams III,” feature, No Depression, February 2002
“The November Snake,” short story, All Things Considered, NPR,
January 2002
“Music (The Revelator),” feature, No Depression, December 2001
“Summer Story,” short story, All Things Considered, NPR, August 2001
“Star Wars,” essay, All Things Considered, NPR, May 2001
Clay’s Quilt, novel, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, March 2001
“Canning,” short story, Appalachian Heritage, Fall 2000