The novel is another version of that thought experiment. Why do we think that this thing that happens to an animal is all that different from the thing that happens to a person? Maybe we process these things very similarly. … I come up with a lot of ideas by watching animals and their behaviors, and imagining then that humans are animals on a different spectrum. On humans’ natural devolution into animals:ĭC: I was interested in how people devolve. Creating the characters was like letting them loose in this place and then seeing what happened. In The New Wilderness it’s a need to flee, a need to get away, a need for another option because what they have in their lives isn’t working. The New Wilderness by Diane Cook review a planet brought to its knees by the human race The New Wilderness is set in a world full of ‘uninhabitable regions’. They don’t have anything that connects except for a love of one thing. I think you just can’t get away from that when you have a group of strangers together who have to make a community out of nothing. So much of Survivor is about group dynamics and power dynamics. On her characters’ kinship with Survivor contestants: This week on The Maris Review, Diane Cook joins Maris Kreizman to discuss her latest book, The New Wilderness, out now from Harper.
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