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Vitriolic and incisive, Douglas Glover's newest essays defend literature against the assaults of a post-literate age.
List of contents
"Mappa Mundi: The Structure of Western Thought"
"The Mind of Alice Munro"
"How to Read a Mark Jarman Short Story"
"A Scrupulous Fidelity: On Thomas Bernhard's The Loser"
"Pedro, the Uncanny: A Note on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo"
"Don Quixote, Rosemary's Baby, Alien, and The French Lieutenant's Woman: Meditations on the Ideology of Closure and the Comforting Lie"
"The Structure of Novels"
"Short Story Structure: Notes and an Exercise"
"The Attack of the Copula Spiders: Thoughts on Writing Well in a Post-Literate Age"
"The Drama of Grammar"
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.
