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L-R: Scott Miller, Silas House, Chris Knight, and William Gay at “Picks and Pens,” a panel discussion at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. |
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Public Outcry—the band in which Silas plays guitar and sings—recently performed on the steps of the Kentucky state capitol. The video has been put up on YouTube...Silas apologizes for his voice cracking and explains that his hands and his vocal chords were frozen. And here’s another new posting from later that day. Check out Silas’s Blog-A Country Boy Can Surmise-the Feb/March blog is now posted. Silas House recently testified before the Kentucky Legislature about mountaintop removal. Read his speech here. 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. Silas House on YouTube Watch one of Silas’s readings at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on YouTube. Archived here is Silas reading his essay about the late Larry Brown, one of his mentors and one of the most revered writers in Southern literature.
Listen to House’s first published story Silas House was recently the guest at honor at a reading and reception celebrating the latest issue of Appalachian Heritage. That night he participated in an interview with the college radio station and read his very first published short story. Listen to them both here. House appears in new film Its Memory Alone Remains is a new film by producer and director Steve Dean, creator of “The Heartland Series.” The film—in which Silas plays a Confederate soldier who is killed in battle—chronicles the siege of Knoxville at Fort Sanders. It contains no dialogue and will be on permanent display at the McClung Museum of East Tennessee History. After a full day of filming, Silas’s screen time equals about two seconds! But he’s there. |
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Silas House is currently featured on the cover of Kentucky Monthly magazine, March 09 issue. The cover story by Amanda Hervey focuses on the efforts of Kentucky’s writers—among them Silas—to bring attention to the devastation caused by mountaintop removal mining while also paying tribute to the rich coal mining history of the region. Silas was photographed at one of his favorite places in the world, the historic Cumberland Gap. He was photographed by Tim Webb. |