Issue 4:1 I Interview I Silas House
The Nantahala Interview with Silas House
Required
When you create religious characters in your novels,
how do you intend to represent them?
How do you ensure that your work reflects an “authentic” representation
of religious people rather than one that is overly romanticized?
At his writing house at LMU, Silas talks about his admiration
for Don West and reads West’s poem “Mountain Heritage.”
Recount your struggle and strategy for writing dialect and dialogue
that approximates the “real” speech of Appalachian people.
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