🎭 Culture Aug 14, 2026 · Owen Park

In the Studio with Chad Fore, the Writer Behind “Lil Spooky”

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In the Studio with Chad Fore, the Writer Behind “Lil Spooky”
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Photograph by Kathleen McNamara.
In the time between his first submission to the Review, in February of last year, and the publication of his short story “Lil Spooky” in our new Summer issue, the writer Chad Fore and I exchanged almost a hundred emails. I also read several of his stories, which tend to be somewhat autobiographical, at least in the sense that they often take place in one of Fore’s two neighboring hometowns—Piru and Fillmore, in Southern California—and are rich with the kind

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