{"product_id":"attack-of-the-copula-spiders-essays-on-writing-paperback","title":"Attack of the Copula Spiders: Essays on Writing - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDouglas Glover\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA GLOBE \u0026amp; MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2012 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Glover is a master of narrative structure.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Wall Street Journal \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eAttack of the Copula Spiders\u003c\/i\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003eWhether 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 \u003ci\u003eAttack of the Copula Spiders\u003c\/i\u003e our best defense against the assaults of a post-literate age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDouglas Glover \u003c\/b\u003eis 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Douglas Glover\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A master of narrative structure.\" - Darin Strauss, author of \u003ci\u003eHalf a Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"So sharp, so evocative, that the reader sees well beyond the tissue of words into ... the author's poetic grace.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Denver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A ribald, raunchy wit with a talent for searing self-investigation.\" - \u003ci\u003e The Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Knotty, intelligent, often raucously funny.\" - \u003ci\u003eMaclean's\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Passionately intricate.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Darkly humorous, simultaneously restless and relentless.\" - \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDouglas Glover: Douglas Glover (1948-) is the award-winning Canadian author of five story collections, four novels (including \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e), 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Life and Times of Captain N.\u003c\/i\u003e was listed by the Chicago Tribune as one of the best books of 1993 and as a \u003ci\u003eGlobe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/i\u003e top-ten paperback of 2001. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe was recently the subject of a TV documentary in a series called \u003ci\u003eThe Writing Life\u003c\/i\u003e and a collection of critical essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Desire, The Fiction of Douglas Glover\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Bruce Stone. And he appeared in several segments of the TV series \u003ci\u003eWriters' Confessions.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 27, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45382760005676,"sku":"9781926845463","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/lkCDB3vK8V9781926845463.webp?v=1783362376","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/attack-of-the-copula-spiders-essays-on-writing-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}