This was exactly what happened when this reader sat down with the darkly comic and sad stories of Diane Cook’s debut collection, “Man V. Nature.” ...

Cook's debut collection of stories from a California radio producer offers a brutal look at the bewildering complexity of human behavior, with stories that rang ...

Man V Nature by Diane Cook review: ramp up the rage Inhospitable forces await right outside your door in the effectively bleak and bizarre dystopian collection, writes Sarah Gilmartin Expand ...

Diane Cook. Harper, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-233310-0 The characters in Cook’s debut story collection inhabit isolated worlds, bubbles where scores of children are kidnapped and the police ...

The novel, about a family that gives up modern conveniences to live in the woods, is a brutal, beguiling fairy tale about humanity.

THE PERFECT STORM: Action adventure. Starringf George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane, John C. Reilly and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Written by Bill Wittliff ...

In this wry, speculative debut novel (after the collection Man v. Nature), Cook envisions a crowded and polluted near future in which only one natural area remains, the Wilderness State. Twenty ...

Secrets of the writing life from the authors of "Man v Nature" and "2 a.m. at the Cat's Pajamas" By Diane Cook - Marie-Helene Bertino ...

Diane Cook’s inspired debut novel “The New Wilderness” (Harper, 416 pp., ★★★★ out of four) imagines a future in which the wilderness itself has become invite-only.

News Greater Manchester News "Loving, resilient, beautiful, generous, and a firecracker": Diane Cooke a journalistic force of nature "Cookie was the fearless beating heart of the features desk" ...