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Otherppl with Brad Listi

968. Kate Folk

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.8556 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Kate Folk is the author of the debut novel Sky Daddy, available from Random House. Folk is also the author of the debut short story collection Out There. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and Zyzzyva. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she’s also received support from the Headlands Center for the Arts, MacDowell, and Willapa Bay AiR. She lives in San Francisco. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠, ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠, etc. Subscribe to ⁠⁠Brad Listi’s email newsletter⁠⁠. ⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Merch⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠  ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠ Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a ⁠⁠proud affiliate partner of Bookshop⁠⁠, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.2

All right, everybody, welcome to The Other People Show, a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. My name is Brad Listy, and I'm here in Los Angeles.

0:36.6

It's good to be with you.

0:37.9

Hope everything's going okay out there wherever you happen to be. Don't forget to hit the

0:42.0

subscribe button wherever you listen. You can also subscribe on YouTube, and you can follow me on

0:48.1

Blue Sky and Instagram. My guest today is Kate Fulke, author of the debut novel Sky Daddy, available from Random House.

1:00.1

Sky Daddy is a book about a woman named Linda, who, to put it bluntly, has a thing for airplanes.

1:11.4

And in a lesser writer's hands, this might be a disaster.

1:18.0

But in Kate Folk's hands, this is a novel that is smart and subversive and dryly funny

1:23.9

and unexpectedly moving and heartbreaking and heartwarming, all of the above. She's a very

1:33.4

gifted writer and she's unusually good at writing what I would refer to as high concept

1:39.1

literary fiction. Sky Daddy builds on the promise of Kate's debut story collection out there, and I'm so

1:46.4

happy to welcome her back onto this show for a second time to talk with me about this new

1:52.2

novel of hers. You will hear that conversation in just a couple of minutes. A reminder before

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