A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. I don’t even think that was imparted to me by my professors.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. I’d been in this mode of thinking that I had to write realist fiction during the MFA.
In fiction, I was really drawn to Amelia Gray’s work after I graduated from the MFA. The first big one was The X-Files when I was a kid and a teenager, and kind of eerie stories. I think it’s just being a part of the world we live in now, and especially with the pandemic, it’s just accelerated the way we live online even more, especially for people like us or media people who work on Zoom and from home a lot of the time.
And yet I haven’t found a good way to moderate that, and I’ve just given up trying to moderate it. I’m always scrolling on Twitter, to the point where it does feel kind of sickening sometimes. But I think that my life is enmeshed with technology probably the same way it is for most writers these days. I end up writing stories that feel interesting to me, and I never know if they’ll be interesting to anyone else. Kate Folk: That’s an interesting question because I don’t think any of it is that deliberate. What are you reading? How are you paying attention to things? Are you tuned in to technology to a degree that maybe most literary writers are not? Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts!īrad Listi: For a writer who’s writing speculative, kind of sci-fi stuff, I’m wondering about how you generate it and what kinds of things you’re paying attention to that might lend your brain to creating this material. Her debut story collection, Out There, is out now from Random House.
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