'Man V. Nature,’ stories by Diane Cook: review. By S. Kirk Walsh Oct 8, 2014. Diane Cook. Katherine Rondina. Harper. It’s a curiously exhilarating experience to pick up a story collection by a ...

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.

Man v. Nature Diane Cook. Harper, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-233310-0. The characters in Cook’s debut story collection inhabit isolated worlds, ...

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 Published October 7, 2014 11:00PM (EDT) ...

Diane Cook centers her stories around moral conundrums like this one. As Man V. Nature’s title suggests, Cook forces readers to question the limits of their humanity in the face of extreme ...

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 ...

Unlike some of these recent escapees, Diane Cook has had the wilderness on her mind for a long time. The epigraph to her 2014 collection, “Man v.Nature,” comes from a letter Emily Dickinson ...