The Humanities Center welcomes national bestselling author Silas House to campus at 7 p.m. today (Oct. 21) for a reading of his latest book, “Southernmost,” followed by a discussion. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to join the exciting conversation at the Downtown Campus Library in the Milano Reading Room.
Silas House is the bestselling author of six novels: “Clay's Quilt”, 2001; “A Parchment of Leaves,” 2003; “The Coal Tattoo,” 2005; “Eli the Good,” 2009; “Same Sun Here” (co-authored with Neela Vaswani) 2012, and “Southernmost” (June 2018). He also wrote a book of creative nonfiction, “Something's Rising,” co-authored with Jason Howard, 2009, and three plays: “The Hurting Part” (2005), “This Is My Heart for You” (2012), and “In These Fields,” with Sam Gleaves, 2016.
His work frequently appears in The New York Times and Salon. He is a former commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered." His writing has appeared in Time, “Garden and Gun,” “Oxford American,” “Narrative,” “Blackbird,” and Newsday, as well as in anthologies such as “Best Food Writing,” 2015 and “New Stories From the South, The Year's Best: 2004.” House serves on the fiction faculty at the Spalding MFA in Creative Writing and as the NEH Chair at Berea College.
This event is a part of the Office of the Provost's Dan and Betsy Brown Lecture Series.