![]() ![]() Stine, The X-Files, and Quentin Tarantino: Insightful, sharply funny and a little bit pulpy. Her writing is informed by her early inspirations like R. “It was always that process of things not happening the way I thought they should happen, but then something else happening that was actually better in the long run.”īetter for her, and better for her readers, who have the privilege of enjoying Folk at the top of her game. “I'm glad that it's worked out the way it has,” the 37-year-old author says. Now, after Out There’s long-awaited release in April, Folk is sanguine about her long road to publication. Months later, Hulu announced it was developing Out There for TV. In the span of only a few weeks, she had a short story published in The New Yorker, the holy grail of short fiction, and got a book deal for her debut short story collection, Out There. But in March of 2020, just when the pandemic was beginning, Folk’s dreams suddenly came true. She wrote a couple more books, which didn’t get published, either. After completing an MFA in fiction at the University of San Francisco in 2011, she tried to publish a novel - “I mean, I thought it was a novel,” she tells Bustle “It was actually I think fewer than 50,000 words” - to no avail. ![]()
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