Kate Folk: Out There
@ Logan Center for the Arts, The University of Chicago
915 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Thursday, February 22nd, from 5PM - 6PM
Kate Folk will discuss Out There. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
Presented in partnership with UChicago Creative Writing
At Logan Center for the Arts, Room 801
About the Book: With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk’s debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. 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 man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. 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. Meanwhile, in a poignant companion piece, a woman and a blot forge a genuine, albeit doomed, connection.
About the Author: Kate Folk is the author of Out There (Random House ’22), a Kirkus best book of 2022 and finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, One Story, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and Zyzzyva, among others. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, she’s also received support from MacDowell, Willapa Bay AiR, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her first novel, Sky Daddy, is forthcoming from Random House in 2025. Originally from Iowa, she lives in San Francisco.
Event Location:
Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St Room 801
Chicago, IL 60637
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