Attack of the Copula Spiders
Book News, Reviews, Orders, AWP Book Party,
Center for Fiction Craft Talk & Reading,
The Danforth Review Interview
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May 13
His sortie on the verb “to be” in “Attack of the Copula Spiders” is particularly brilliant. Mark Sampson at Free Range Reading
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April 28
Attack of the Copula Spiders is a practical guide for anyone interested in writing. Glover’s first chapter, “How To Write A Novel,” alone is worth the price of the book. Telegraph Journal SalonBooks
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Caroline Adderson, author of A History of Forgetting: “Just ordered it. The essay on “Meneseteung” alone is worth the price.”
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April 13
“These essays are not just for writing students, however. Whatever heightens student awareness of craft also sharpens the awareness of the general reader who has no desire to try his or her hand at writing but would like better to understand literature. Glover has an essay on Alice Munro that is of value to any short story writer but also should be required reading for anyone interested in Canadian fiction.” Philip Marchand in the National Post
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April 9
“Thoughtful and erudite books such as Attack of the Copula Spiders are always useful as roadmaps for developing better readers and writers. Now if we could only get the world to read them carefully.” George Fetherling review in Quill and Quire
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“a great book of literary essays” Scott Esposito at Conversational Reading
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“I’m a few chapters into reading it a second time. All of it is wise and clear and exciting. The book is chock-full of good stuff, but the first and third chapters are especially brilliant. And the first paragraph of your essay on the Rooke novel is itself worth the price of the book. ” — Jack Hodgins, Governor General’s Award winning author of The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne and The Invention of the World
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Douglas Glover interview re Attack of the Copula Spiders on The Danforth Review.
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Douglas Glover’s Craftwork talk on the novel at the Center for Fiction — based on “How To Write A Novel,” one of the essays in Attack of the Copula Spiders
March 14 — Craftwork: Douglas Glover — Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 7:00 pm, at
The Center for Fiction
17 E. 47th Street
(between Fifth and Madison)
New York, NY 10017
(212) 755-6710
info@centerforfiction.org
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March 15 — Douglas Glover Read at Celebration of The Literarian
The Center for Fiction
17 E. 47th Street
(between Fifth and Madison)
New York, NY 10017
(212) 755-6710
info@centerforfiction.org
Thursday March 15, 2012
07:00 pm
Come join us for drinks and micro-readings in celebration of our online magazine, The Literarian, featuring contribs Alan Cheuse, Anne Landsman, Barbara O’Dair, Carmela Ciuraru, Christine Schutt, Diane DeSanders, Douglas Glover, Elissa Schappell, Jane Ciabattari, Kim Chinquee, Leigh Newman, Leopoldine Core, Terese Svoboda, Tracy O’Neill, and Victoria Redel.
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Feb 9: The Thomas Bernhard essay in Attack of the Copula Spiders quoted in The New Yorker online Book Bench.
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“…a master of narrative structure” (Wall Street Journal)
Among the essays included in the book:
- How to Write a Novel (dg’s famous Novel Lecture)
- How to Write a Short Story: Notes on Structure and an Exercise (see examples of student stories written from the exercise here and here)
- The Drama of Grammar
- The Mind of Alice Munro
- Novels and Dreams
- A Scrupulous Fidelity: On Thomas Bernhard’s The Loser
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UK Guardian reviewer and columnist and editor of the magazine 3 a.m. Andrew Gallix quotes from
Attack of the Copula Spiders.
(This is in his Phantom Book category, related to language theory and a modernist aesthetic. dg is up there with Walter Benjamin, George Steiner and Herman Melville.)
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Essay excerpted from Attack of the Copula Spiders in
The Brooklyn Rail February 1, 2012
Linked on A Piece of Monologue, ReadySteadyBook, and wood s lot.
“…excellent essay” — @ Who Killed Lemmy Caution?
“…excellent essay” — @ Three Minutes’ Chewing
“…a great essay by Douglas Glover about Thomas Bernhard’s novel The Loser (it is serialized from Attack of the Copula Spiders and Other Essays on Writing, published by Biblioasis. The essay makes a fine rundown of the various rhetorical devices that makes Bernhard Bernhard. So if you ever wonder how he manages to attain those typically Bernhardian effects, look here.” Scott Esposito @ Conversational Reading
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Attack of the Copula Spiders Book Signing at Vermont College of Fine Arts booth, AWP Chicago — Thursday, March 1, 2-3:30pm. Books available. Bring cash or checks.
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Attack of the Copula Spiders Party at AWP Chicago — Friday, March 2, 7-8:15pm, Hilton Chicago Hotel Dining Room 4. Invitation below.
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Invitation Flyer
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