A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2012
"Glover is a master of narrative structure."
--Wall Street Journal
In the tradition of E.M. Forster, John Gardner, and James Wood,
Douglas Glover has produced a book on writing at once erudite,
anecdotal, instructive, and amusing. "Attack of the Copula Spiders"
represents the accumulated wisdom of a remarkable literary career:
novelist, short story writer, essayist, teacher and mentor, Glover
has for decades been asking the vital questions. How does the way
we read influence the way we write? What do craft books fail to
teach aspiring writers about theme, about plot and subplot, about
constructing point of view? How can we maintain drama on the level
of the sentence--and explain drama in the sentences of others? What
is the relationship of form and art? How do you make words
live?
Whether his subject is Alice Munro, Cervantes, or the creative
writing classroom, Glover's take is frank and fresh, demonstrating
again and again that graceful writers must first be strong readers.
This collection is a call-to-arms for all lovers of English, and
"Attack of the Copula Spiders" our best defense against the
assaults of a post-literate age.
Douglas Glover is the award-winning author of five story
collections, four novels, and two works of non-fiction. He is
currently on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in
Writing program.
Praise for Douglas Glover
"A master of narrative structure." - Darin Strauss, author of "Half
a Life," "Wall Street Journal"
"So sharp, so evocative, that the reader sees well beyond the
tissue of words into ... the author's poetic grace." - "The New
Yorker"
"Glover invents his own assembly of critical approaches and
theories that is eclectic, personal, scholarly, and smart ... a
direction for future literary criticism to take." - "The Denver
Quarterly"
"A ribald, raunchy wit with a talent for searing
self-investigation." - " The Globe and Mail"
"Knotty, intelligent, often raucously funny." - "Maclean's"
"Passionately intricate." - "The Chicago Tribune"
"Darkly humorous, simultaneously restless and relentless." -
"Kirkus Reviews"
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