kate folk

my time as host of #ShowUsYourDesk has come to an end, and i can’t think of a better final guest than the author who wrote my favorite novel of the year. please join @katefolk.bsky.social and me, live from @therumpus.net IG on tues, 12/16 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, for one last desk reveal! ✈️✈️✈️

Started and finished @katefolk.bsky.social’s Sky Daddy in less than 24hrs (with a full day in there too!). What a wacky, indulgent, outrageous read. I love an unhinged protagonist ✨

The Skinny's Favourite Books of 2025 We asked our books team to name their favourite book of 2025 – here's the list, featuring fiction-memoir hybrids, beautiful graphic novels, and a woman who wants to marry a plane...

Our writers pick their favourite books of the past year, with work by Aria Aber, @catherinelacey.bsky.social, Claire Star Finch and @katefolk.bsky.social making the list...

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

Sky Daddy is so wild and beautiful and funny. Favorite novel this year for sure —maybe several years. @katefolk.bsky.social

Finally, a Novel That Understands the Raw Sex Appeal of Airplanes - Electric Literature In "Sky Daddy," Kate Folk takes forbidden romance to new heights

"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

“moist house” has a small but passionate fandom

thank you @dapowell.bsky.social what an honor

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 ...

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...

The cover is sky blue with title and author in large red letters, and an image of an airplane (that wraps around to the back cover) rising up above clouds.

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

Sky Daddy on display table at Island Books. Blue cover with a soaring airplane

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...

that’s amazing!!

thanks for listening!!

A screen grab of the cover of sky daddy on the libro.fm app.

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 :)

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…

"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!

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...

i have a new story at @nplusonemag.com. it’s called “patrick’s journey: the play”

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Monthly Bookseller's Choice display at Clement St. Featuring Kate Folk's book, Sky Daddy, and printed staff endorsements above it, reading "As much about one woman’s eroticization of airplane crashes as it is about the seeming impossibility of a perfect love. Weird, funny, sad, hopeful. and wickedly perverse. Read for your next flight or maybe just anywhere in view of the sky. -Benjy Linda’s pursuit of “handsome gentlemen” is healthier than anything I’ve encountered in the SF dating scene in the past 5 years. - Eileen Sky Daddy hijacked my heart and left me soaring. A potentially silly premise that Folk tackles with both empathy and humor beautifully. - Olivia" Below is a handwritten shelftalker that simply reads "Moby Dick for the Modern Girl"

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...

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...

“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/...

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.

The Sublime Beauty That Airplanes Leave Behind Contrails conjure a sense of something overwhelming and ineffable, as terrifying as it is beautiful.

for nyt mag, i wrote about the beauty of contrails
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/m...

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