William Cook

Recently, Donald White asked me to do an interview for his writer's blog and this was the result. Be sure to check out Donald's website for lots of interesting features on writing and up and coming writers.   *************************   An Interview with William Cook  The Writer’s Blog welcomes the inimitable William Cook! Please tell us a little about yourself. William Cook: Hi and thanks for having me here Donald. I like to think of myself as primarily a writer first and an artist second. I live in New Zealand at the foot of the world, happily married with four daughters, in charge of the house and looking after the two youngest girls. I have been writing weird stories ever since I was a kid. My first published works were poems in various literary journals in NZ and a few in the States. Back in 1996 I published a collection of verse titled 'Journey: The Search for Something' and had the occasional poem and short story...

Written by William Cook Reviewed by Char Hardin May I introduce the Cunningham Family: father who is a suspected serial killer who dies by his own hand who is married to an insane alcoholic combined they beget two sons who follow in their father’s footsteps Caleb and Charlie inherited more than dysfunctional family traits they inherited a blood soaked heritage that caused the boys to rain down a legacy of terror and death. The beginning of the story is a preface by the psychiatrist Dr. Mary Brunswick who tells how she worked with Charlie during his trial and then after he was sentenced how his brother Caleb approached her with his own tales of murder. The trust between doctor and patient was built on the confidentiality clause that she could not break. He was free with his accounts and then disappeared. Just reading the preface was a strong indication of the content of the pages to come. I consumed this story in one sitting. One word to describe what William...

Here is a list of my favorite literary works. The list is not complete and is totally subjective in that the books listed are my personal favorites - the books that I go back to for whatever reason and read again and again. This is NOT a list of books I think have the most literary merit, this IS a list of books I have enjoyed reading the most for whatever reason. My friend and peer, Vincenzo Bilof has done a similar list you may find of interest here , in response to a challenge I made to him. This, of course, being my response to said challenge.  My Favorite Books (to date) - Recommended Reading Fiction (Novels) Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk Big Sur – Jack Kerouac Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad Infinite jest – David Foster Wallace The Killer – Colin Wilson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson Winesburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson The Stranger –...