kate folk
@katefolk.bsky.social
Author of OUT THERE and SKY DADDY
i don’t know why people tag authors in bad reviews of their books, but i’m honestly impressed by their boldness. i can’t imagine tagging a stranger for any reason
October 16, 2025 at 5:50 AM
i don’t know why people tag authors in bad reviews of their books, but i’m honestly impressed by their boldness. i can’t imagine tagging a stranger for any reason
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Sky Daddy is so wild and beautiful and funny. Favorite novel this year for sure —maybe several years. @katefolk.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Sky Daddy is so wild and beautiful and funny. Favorite novel this year for sure —maybe several years. @katefolk.bsky.social
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"SKY DADDY, @katefolk.bsky.social's debut novel, takes forbidden romance to new heights," says Angela Hui. Check out Kate's interview below--a whole craft lesson on novel writing--then come hear Kate read at Babylon TOMORROW! Sat, 6/14 at The Sycamore! 5:30pm. Free!
#writing #books #writer #reading
#writing #books #writer #reading
Finally, a Novel That Understands the Raw Sex Appeal of Airplanes - Electric Literature
In "Sky Daddy," Kate Folk takes forbidden romance to new heights
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June 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
"SKY DADDY, @katefolk.bsky.social's debut novel, takes forbidden romance to new heights," says Angela Hui. Check out Kate's interview below--a whole craft lesson on novel writing--then come hear Kate read at Babylon TOMORROW! Sat, 6/14 at The Sycamore! 5:30pm. Free!
#writing #books #writer #reading
#writing #books #writer #reading
“moist house” has a small but passionate fandom
Here’s Brittney Uecker’s 10 Favorite Stories of the 2000's (in no particular order).
(I think Brittney’s “Dead Deer,” published in SSL, should prob be on someone’s list. Also, next week we’ll feature Brittney’s interview with Erin Somers about “Ten Year Affair”!)
(I think Brittney’s “Dead Deer,” published in SSL, should prob be on someone’s list. Also, next week we’ll feature Brittney’s interview with Erin Somers about “Ten Year Affair”!)
June 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
“moist house” has a small but passionate fandom
thank you @dapowell.bsky.social what an honor
I am wrapped up in this delicious novel by @katefolk.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
thank you @dapowell.bsky.social what an honor
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Time for a chat with @katefolk.bsky.social about her madcap and life affirming SKY DADDY as well as the quiet pleasures of being the only person alive in THE WALL by Marlen Haushofer.
Here’s where you go listen: www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/epi...
Here’s where you go listen: www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/epi...
240: Kate Folk (SKY DADDY) and Marlen Haushofer's THE WALL — So Many Damn Books
In This Episode: Kate Folk flies into the Zoom Damn Library and boy are her arms tired! That’s an airplane joke, and it’s very fitting, actually, because she’s here to discuss her madcap Sky Daddy ...
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May 5, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Time for a chat with @katefolk.bsky.social about her madcap and life affirming SKY DADDY as well as the quiet pleasures of being the only person alive in THE WALL by Marlen Haushofer.
Here’s where you go listen: www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/epi...
Here’s where you go listen: www.somanydamnbooks.com/episodes/epi...
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I sometimes felt disloyal taking pleasure from an A320, as this model was designed as a direct competitor to the 737, but the A320 was a fine plane in his own right, and I'd gladly marry such an aircraft if he chose me. -This week's #SundaySentence is from Sky Daddy, @katefolk.bsky.social. #Booksky
May 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I sometimes felt disloyal taking pleasure from an A320, as this model was designed as a direct competitor to the 737, but the A320 was a fine plane in his own right, and I'd gladly marry such an aircraft if he chose me. -This week's #SundaySentence is from Sky Daddy, @katefolk.bsky.social. #Booksky
thank you chuck tingle. i will never forget keith the billionaire jet plane
very kind of buckaroo @katefolk.bsky.social to send this over. LOVE IS REAL FOR PLANES
May 1, 2025 at 5:06 AM
thank you chuck tingle. i will never forget keith the billionaire jet plane
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Today's quick rave is for Sky Daddy by @katefolk.bsky.social ! A perfectly bonkers book about a woman with an extreme fondness for airplanes. I loved this book! www.islandbooks.com/book/9780593...
April 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Today's quick rave is for Sky Daddy by @katefolk.bsky.social ! A perfectly bonkers book about a woman with an extreme fondness for airplanes. I loved this book! www.islandbooks.com/book/9780593...
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You know what audiobook is an absolutely wild ride???
This one right here!
I laughed so many times while listening to @katefolk.bsky.social’s Sky Daddy. It’s beautiful and sad and strange in perfect measure :)
This one right here!
I laughed so many times while listening to @katefolk.bsky.social’s Sky Daddy. It’s beautiful and sad and strange in perfect measure :)
April 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
You know what audiobook is an absolutely wild ride???
This one right here!
I laughed so many times while listening to @katefolk.bsky.social’s Sky Daddy. It’s beautiful and sad and strange in perfect measure :)
This one right here!
I laughed so many times while listening to @katefolk.bsky.social’s Sky Daddy. It’s beautiful and sad and strange in perfect measure :)
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"I have heard Moby-Dick described as a vessel that allows Melville to lavish attention on whales. I wanted 'Sky Daddy' to do the same for planes," @katefolk.bsky.social told NBCC Co–VP/Events @janeciab.bsky.social in their Literary Hub conversation about her first novel, "Sky Daddy":
Kate Folk on Writing a Contemporary Tribute to an American Classic
A first novel with a combination of heavyweight ambition, wry wit, and pathos, peppered with hilarious moments, Kate Folk’s Sky Daddy draws inspiration from Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Her e…
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April 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"I have heard Moby-Dick described as a vessel that allows Melville to lavish attention on whales. I wanted 'Sky Daddy' to do the same for planes," @katefolk.bsky.social told NBCC Co–VP/Events @janeciab.bsky.social in their Literary Hub conversation about her first novel, "Sky Daddy":
thank you so much!
Sky Daddy by @katefolk.bsky.social is so fucking good. Melville colliding with Ballardian sad girl lit. in the very best of ways.
April 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
thank you so much!
i have a new story at @nplusonemag.com. it’s called “patrick’s journey: the play”
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Patrick’s Journey: The Play | Kate Folk
They could write a short story honoring the thwarted child by envisioning what its life might have become. The story had to be a minimum of ten pages double-spaced, with an honest attempt at showing r...
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April 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
i have a new story at @nplusonemag.com. it’s called “patrick’s journey: the play”
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Happy Pub Week to @katefolk.bsky.social's SKY DADDY, which is our April Bookseller's Choice! Sky Daddy has the rare distinction of having not one, not two, but three separate bookseller endorsements. Certified hit. You're going to want to read this. greenapplebooks.com/book/9780593...
April 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Happy Pub Week to @katefolk.bsky.social's SKY DADDY, which is our April Bookseller's Choice! Sky Daddy has the rare distinction of having not one, not two, but three separate bookseller endorsements. Certified hit. You're going to want to read this. greenapplebooks.com/book/9780593...
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“They could write a short story honoring the thwarted child by envisioning what its life might have become. The story had to be a minimum of ten pages double-spaced, with an honest attempt at showing rather than telling.” New: fiction by
@katefolk.bsky.social. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
@katefolk.bsky.social. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Patrick’s Journey: The Play | Kate Folk
They could write a short story honoring the thwarted child by envisioning what its life might have become. The story had to be a minimum of ten pages double-spaced, with an honest attempt at showing r...
www.nplusonemag.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“They could write a short story honoring the thwarted child by envisioning what its life might have become. The story had to be a minimum of ten pages double-spaced, with an honest attempt at showing rather than telling.” New: fiction by
@katefolk.bsky.social. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
@katefolk.bsky.social. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Kate Folk’s novel SKY DADDY is unlike any novel I’ve read. Pure Kafka. Folk’s witty and colloquial style draws us deeply into an odd woman’s life. Each place and time gets the fable that fits. SKY DADDY is here and now. Don’t miss it.
February 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Kate Folk’s novel SKY DADDY is unlike any novel I’ve read. Pure Kafka. Folk’s witty and colloquial style draws us deeply into an odd woman’s life. Each place and time gets the fable that fits. SKY DADDY is here and now. Don’t miss it.
for nyt mag, i wrote about the beauty of contrails
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/m...
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The Sublime Beauty That Airplanes Leave Behind
Contrails conjure a sense of something overwhelming and ineffable, as terrifying as it is beautiful.
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February 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
for nyt mag, i wrote about the beauty of contrails
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/m...
i tried a protein cookie. horrible
October 13, 2023 at 6:55 PM
i tried a protein cookie. horrible
if spiders were the size of cats i guess it wouldn’t be that scary because we’d be used to it
October 6, 2023 at 4:03 AM
if spiders were the size of cats i guess it wouldn’t be that scary because we’d be used to it