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A Country Boy Can Surmise

Silas House

Musings from New York Times bestselling novelist and journalist Silas House.

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To Tell the Whole Truth

Now that The Tulip Poplars has been out in the world for almost two weeks people are starting to ask me a lot of questions about the book, which I love. One that I want to expand on here is why I’m writing about race, even though I am not a...

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Legislated Love

“But why did you have to write a gay love story?” Someone wrote to me recently. “Why do you have to push it on everyone?”

Well, the questions are pointing to the answers. One reason I wrote a novel that centers on a gay relationship is be...

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The Roots Took Hold

“Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.” —Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

Visiting Thomas Hardy’s childhood woods in 2016.

I was a junior in high school, holding forth about how much I had loved so...

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When the Heart is Generous

Note: This is part of a series of posts about the influences on my forthcoming novel, The Tulip Poplars. This post was already written and in the queue to be published here before the passing of my friend, and our modern prophet, Wendell Be...

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Lights, Words, Action

Note: We don’t have enough love stories these days, so I wrote one. In my forthcoming novel, The Tulip Poplars, I follow two couples—one gay, one interacial—who are up against tremendous odds to be together. I always wanted to write a sweep...

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