Diane Cook
Author of
The New Wilderness and Man V. Nature
The New Wilderness
“The New Wilderness is a virtuosic debut, brutal and beautiful in equal measure.”
– EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL
FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE
Margaret Atwood meets Miranda July in this wildly imaginative debut novel of a mother’s battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change, a prescient and suspenseful book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, Man V. Nature.
Bea’s five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Until now.
Man V. Nature
- Finalist for The Believer Book Award, The Guardian First Book Award, and the LA Times Book Prizes
- Honorable Mention from the Pen/Hemingway Award
- A Boston Globe, iBooks, and San Francisco Chronicle Best book of 2014
Perfectly pitched and gorgeously penned, this astonishingly bold collection of stories explores the boundary between the wild and the civilized. Pitting human beings against the extremes of nature, Diane Cook surgically peels back the layers of civilization to lay bare our vulnerabilities and the ease with which our darker, primal urges emerge. Wry, transgressive and utterly unique, Cook’s wildly inventive debut collection illuminates, with surreal humor and heartbreak, humankind’s struggle not only to thrive, but survive.
Some Writing, Links
- ‘On Coyotes’ In Granta Granta, February 2018
- ‘The Ringing Bell’ Buzzfeed, November 2017
- ‘Bounty’ Harper’s, August 2014
- Adaptation of ‘Man V. Nature’ The Truth Podcast, March 2016
- Recommended Reading: ‘Man V. Nature’ Electric Literature, October 2014
- ‘The Mast Year’ Granta, August 2014
- ‘Girl On Girl’ Granta, August 2014
- ‘Marrying Up’ Guernica, February 2013
- From Floods To Baby Snatchers KQED, July 2015
- “It's Us V. Us” – An Interview Electric Literature, October 2014
Events
2020
Events are virtual
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AUGUST 12
Books Are Magic | Brooklyn, NY
In conversation with Arianna Rebolini -
AUGUST 13
Booksmith | San Francisco, CA
In conversation with Rahawa Haile -
AUGUST 17
Print: A Bookstore | Portland, ME
In conversation with Mira Ptacin -
AUGUST 19
RL Julia Bookstore | Madison, CT
Reading with Margot Livesay -
AUGUST 20
Skylight Books | Los Angeles, CA
In conversation with Jane Marie -
AUGUST 31
Literati Bookstore | Ann Arbor, MI
Reading with Karolina Waclawiak
Contact
Literary
Seth Fishman, The Gernert Company
sfishman [at] thegernertco.com
212-838-7777
Contact Diane:
dianemariecook [at] gmail.com
Publicity
To request an appearance, contact
Christie Hinrichs at
christie@authorsunbound.com,
or (541) 797-2217
View my speaker profile here.
Film & Television
Dana Spector at CAA
424-288-2000