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b'Writer Diane\\xa0Cook was a producer at\\xa0This American Life\\xa0for years until she quit to pursue her own fiction writing. She\\u2019s since had work published or forthcoming in places like\\xa0Harper\'s,\\xa0Granta, and\\xa0Zoetrope, and in 2012 she won the Calvino Prize for fabulist fiction.\\nCook speaks about what she learned from her time at\\xa0This American Life, how she ultimately had to leave the job to develop her own identity as a writer, and her need to focus exclusively on her writing for the last couple of years.\\nCheck out Diane Cook\'s story, "Moving On", in the latest issue of\\xa0. Preorder her debut collection, Man V. Nature, .'