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Podcast: The Talking Appalachian Podcast
Episode: Kentucky Author Silas House Part I
Description: What did you think of this episode?In part I of this two-part interview series from August 2023, Silas House joins me on the campus of UVa.'s College at Wise to talk about accent, making art about the complexity of Appalachia, and (ironically, since we're sitting by a pond) how mountain people seem drawn to water.Silas House is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels — “Clay's Quilt” (2001), “A Parchment of Leaves” (2003), “The Coal Tattoo” (2005), “Eli the Good” (2009), and “Same Sun Here” (2012, with Neela Vaswani) — including his most recent, “Lark Ascending,” which was a Booklist Editors' Choice a...