![]() She's received support from the Headlands Center for the Arts, MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Each story beats with its own fierce heart, and together they herald an exciting new arrival in the tradition of speculative literary fiction. Kate Folk has written for publications including the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and Zyzzyva. Prescient and wildly imaginative, Out There depicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Meanwhile, in a poignant companion piece, a woman and a blot forge a genuine, albeit doomed, connection. And in the title story, originally published in "The New Yorker," a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by “blots,” preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. ![]() A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earth’s remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. ![]() A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. ![]() With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk’s debut short story collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. ![]()
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