Folk writes with unnerving matter-of-factness as she veers into Poe- and Shirley Jackson-like horror or turns to the poignantly fantastic in the mode of George Saunders or Kelly Link. Tightly constructed and spectacularly mind-bending stories that ingeniously pair everyday challenges and outlandish predicaments, ranging from hilarious to terrifying. PRAISE FOR KATE FOLK: The literary love child of Kafka and Camus and Bradbury penning episodes of Black Mirror Chang-Rae. What I finally figured out was there was a total of about 24 bars. Kate Folks debut short story collection Out There is a genre-bending look at the human response to the voids in life internal and external, literal and. Kate Folk's short stories are wonderfully weird playfully pushing the possibilities of plotlines towards the uncanny, creepy and off-kilter, they have a seam of dark humour that illuminates the grotesquery with an unnerving beauty - Daily MailĪ wonderful absurdist collection that explores the vagaries of human connections - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Missy Elliott, Kate Bush, George Michael Lead Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 Class. Folk's stories have been compared to Shirley Jackson's, and this is most apparent in the way Folk balances her horror with humour. A recent Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she's also received. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Granta, One Story, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and Zyzzyva, among others. Folk, a 2019-2021 Wallace Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University who has also written for The New York Times Magazine, Granta and McSweeney’s Quarterly, is set to publish her story. True romantics will swoon either despite or because of the gore that accompanies these sharp, affable stories. Kate Folk is the author of Out There (Random House '22), a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction.

Out There is for readers who consider body horror to be a love language.

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