Kate Folk

2 weeks ago | stlpr.org | Viet Thanh Nguyen |Kate Folk

Who are you, anyway? It's a simple question. Just complete a name tag at the welcome table and you'll be fine, right? But behind that fig leaf there's a freshet of complications, contradictions and still other questions of identity, not least of which is: Who gets to decide? A handful of notable books coming out this week, each in its own way, offer stabs at an explanation - or, at least a deeper understanding of the questions involved.

2 weeks ago | lithub.com | Jane Ciabattari |Kate Folk

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 epigram is a fitting lead-up to the novel:Article continues after advertisement“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. –Herman Melville, Moby-DickPlanes are the whales of the sky.

2 months ago | katieclapham.substack.com | Kate Folk |Katie Clapham

Hello! It’s Friday, it’s ‘Valentine’s Day’ and I’m spending the day alone in a chilly bookshop. Here are some ways I am romancing myself today; I made myself a romantic lunch (a sandwich on good bread, instead of some soup with no bread), I packed myself some extra little treats to keep the day interesting (Mini Eggs), I brought both my handwarmers and my self-heating footwarmers and I went absolutely wild at the coffee shop and got a Mocha instead of an Americano.

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Kate Folk |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Stuart Nadler |Boris Fishman

Kate Folk. Random House, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-23149-4Folk (Out There, a story collection) fuses Moby-Dick with J.G. Ballard’s Crash for a blistering debut novel about a woman’s sexual and mortal obsession with airplanes. “Call me Linda,” begins the narrator, who rides the AirTrain around San Francisco’s airport to lust after fuselage and marvel at wingspans when she’s not busy toiling as a content moderator for a social media platform.

Apr 10, 2024 | obj.ca | Laura Byrne Paquet |Kate Folk |Laura Starkey |Erin Kergen

Not many Eastern Ontario villages are home to a caramel shop, glass-blowing studio, award-winning mustard maker and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In fact, I’m pretty confident there’s only one: Merrickville, less than an hour’s drive southwest of Ottawa. The pretty village on the Rideau Canal (that’s the World Heritage Site) is one of my favourite day trip destinations. My first stop is usually Mrs. McGarrigle’s (311 St. Lawrence St.).