Kate Schatz has worked as an editor for many noted literary journals and is currently a founding editor of Encyclopedia, a forthcoming hardcover book series that seeks to combine the reference book, art book and literary journal in the service of contemporary fiction. She is an award-winning writer of short fiction and she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Kate Schatz's "Rid of Me" is less about a particular album than it is about what happens to an album when you listen to it repeatedly--the way it evolves and transforms and ends up plugging into all the right circuits in your brain. In the end, overlaid with all your own fears and desires the album becomes the basis for a new world, stories swelling out of it like ghosts. Schatz's "Rid of Me" is the uncanny double of P.J. Harvey's album: it both offers all the mystery and beauty that fiction at its best can offer and illustrates better than anything else I know the private process of making an album genuinely your own.

Kate Schatz has worked as an editor for many noted literary journals and is currently a founding editor of Encyclopedia, a forthcoming hardcover book series that seeks to combine the reference book, art book and literary journal in the service of contemporary fiction. She is an award-winning writer of short fiction and she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Kate Schatz's "Rid of Me" is less about a particular album than it is about what happens to an album when you listen to it repeatedly--the way it evolves and transforms and ends up plugging into all the right circuits in your brain. In the end, overlaid with all your own fears and desires the album becomes the basis for a new world, stories swelling out of it like ghosts. Schatz's "Rid of Me" is the uncanny double of P.J. Harvey's album: it both offers all the mystery and beauty that fiction at its best can offer and illustrates better than anything else I know the private process of making an album genuinely your own.

Kate Schatz has worked as an editor for many noted literary journals and is currently a founding editor of Encyclopedia, a forthcoming hardcover book series that seeks to combine the reference book, art book and literary journal in the service of contemporary fiction. She is an award-winning writer of short fiction and she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Kate Schatz's "Rid of Me" is less about a particular album than it is about what happens to an album when you listen to it repeatedly--the way it evolves and transforms and ends up plugging into all the right circuits in your brain. In the end, overlaid with all your own fears and desires the album becomes the basis for a new world, stories swelling out of it like ghosts. Schatz's "Rid of Me" is the uncanny double of P.J. Harvey's album: it both offers all the mystery and beauty that fiction at its best can offer and illustrates better than anything else I know the private process of making an album genuinely your own.