1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Writer Diane&amp;nbsp;Cook was a producer at&amp;nbsp;This American Life&amp;nbsp;for years until she quit to pursue her own fiction writing. She&amp;rsquo;s since had work published or forthcoming in places like&amp;nbsp;Harper's,&amp;nbsp;Granta, and&amp;nbsp;Zoetrope, and in 2012 she won the Calvino Prize for fabulist fiction. Cook speaks about what she learned from her time at&amp;nbsp;This 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. Check out Diane Cook's story, &quot;Moving On&quot;, in the latest issue of&amp;nbsp;Tin House. Preorder her debut collection, Man V. Nature, here.&amp;nbsp; Make/Work: A Rumpus Podcast http://makework.libsyn.com/rumpus <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2821859/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/7150607