Attack of the Copula Spiders - by Douglas Glover (Paperback)

About the Book

Vitriolic and incisive, Douglas Glover's newest essays defend literature against the assaults of a post-literate age.

Book Synopsis

Vitriolic and incisive, Douglas Glover's newest essays defend literature against the assaults of a post-literate age.

Review Quotes

"Impressive, enjoyable, and highly instructive ... This is not literary craft reduced to statistical formulae and write-by-the-numbers word-bytes. Glover's admirable ability and patient willingness to cast a careful-not cold-eye on what makes sentences hum and flow is fueled by a vital, infectious fascination with words, enabling him to reveal the inspired, alchemical, verbal concatenation at work in the most alluring and memorable fiction writing."-Review of Contemporary Fiction

"For the budding writer, Attack of the Copula Spiders offers an excellent primer on the basics; the practiced writer will glean so much more from Glover's wonderful literary experience."-The Los Angeles Review of Books

"Douglas Glover, the award-winning Canadian writer of fiction, short stories and essays carries within him a huge sense of duty both to the craft of writing and to the language ... I stand before it in awe ... This is a book for all writers and for any creative writing class syllabus." Telegraph-Journal

"Every literate person in the country should be reading Glover's essays" The Globe & Mail

About the Author

Douglas Glover: Douglas Glover (1948-) is the award-winning Canadian author of five story collections, four novels (including Elle), and two works of non-fiction. In 2003 he won the Governor-General's Award for Fiction; in 2005 he was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; in 2006 he won the Writers' Trust of Canada Timothy Findley Award. His critically acclaimed novel The Life and Times of Captain N. was listed by the Chicago Tribune as one of the best books of 1993 and as a Globe & Mail top-ten paperback of 2001.

He was recently the subject of a TV documentary in a series called The Writing Life and a collection of critical essays, The Art of Desire, The Fiction of Douglas Glover, edited by Bruce Stone. And he appeared in several segments of the TV series Writers' Confessions.

Since he washed up in the hinterlands of upstate New York in the early 1990s, Glover has taught at Skidmore College, Colgate University, Davidson College, and the State University of New York at Albany. In addition, he has been writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, the University of Lethbridge, St. Thomas University and Utah State University. He is currently on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program.