Diane Cook

Diane Cook is the author of the story collection Man V. Nature, which was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, Believer Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction. Her stories have appeared in Guernica, Harper’s, Tin House, Granta, and were anthologized in Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Prize Stories. She received a 2016 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her debut novel THE NEW WILDERNESS is available August 11, 2020.

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The New Wilderness

An excerpt of the novel by Diane Cook August 14, 2020

Agnes smiled through the pain. “They wouldn’t,” she said almost shyly, and Bea watched Agnes’s face contort, trying to imagine coyotes snuffling her hair.