21. Interview: Novelist Douglas Coupland On Surviving The Technological Revolution - Interview Novelist douglas coupland on surviving the technological revolution. http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/features/article3076954.ece

var contextSectionId = '1296'; var contextName = 'independent_www_arts-entertainment_books'; Skip Links Skip to navigation Skip to primary content Skip to secondary content Skip to tertiary content ... What's Tom Lubbock's favourite kiss in art? Find out in Great Works Books London Search Query: Go Headlines On the Campaign Trail Live reporting from the US see Race for White House Click here... Navigation News UK Home News UK Politics ... Features var articleheadline = "Interview: Novelist Douglas Coupland on surviving the technological revolution"; Interview: Novelist Douglas Coupland on surviving the technological revolution He uses chocolate to beat writer's block, cooks and packages his own crisps and has a body to dispose of. Some of this may even be true Print Email Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Digg It del.icio.us Facebook Stumbleupon ... What are these? Interview by Matt Thorne Sunday, 21 October 2007 The interview is over." Fortunately Douglas Coupland is talking about the form rather than kicking me out of his room, but it's still an awkward moment. The first time I met Coupland, in September 2001, he told me never to interview anyone because then, he said in a vaguely Warhol-esque way, "they don't want to interview you any more." Since then, he's broken his own rule by interviewing Morrissey (more of a series of observations), and written that it is worth interviewing someone you really want to interview. And I really want to interview Coupland. But he's making it difficult. "That Seventies concept of a definitive interview. The Playboy thing. That's gone."

22. YouTube - The Gum Thief By Douglas Coupland: Glove Pond, Part 1 http//www.douglascoupland.ca/A story of love and looming apocalypse set in the aisles of an office supply superstore.Glove Pond, Part 1The Gum Thief by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw-fy39OmXI

23. Papal Attraction | OMM | The Observer Thrilled by word of a new album, Morrissey fan and celebrated author douglas coupland flies halfway around the world to meet the singer in Rome. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,1729861,00.html

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24. Quillblog » Douglas Coupland Preliminary reviews of CBC TV’s jPod are in, and so far critical reception of the new hourlong comedy-drama series – based on the novel by douglas coupland http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/category/authors/douglas-coupland/

Quillblog Book reviews Kids' books Author profiles ... Directories Archive for the 'Douglas Coupland' Category mixed blessings jPod are in, and so far critical reception of the new hour-long comedy-drama series – based on the novel by Douglas Coupland – is decidedly mixed. The only wholeheartedly favourable review is by Toronto Star National Post columnist Robert Cushman, who confesses In the past, the CBC’s attempts to appeal to the under-30 demographic have often been disastrous ( Freestyle That trickle-down effect might be too much to hope for, however, if an interview with actor Alan Thicke is anything to go by. Thicke, who is most famous for playing Jason Seaver on Growing Pains and has a supporting role on jPod Post Email or share this post Posted by Stuart Woods on January 8, 2008 Filed under: Douglas Coupland Media/Reviewing Permalink Coupland goes viral, Staples tags along The final three YouTube video trailers The Gum Thief , were released last week. The series has been attracting steady traffic since the campaign started a month ago. CBC.ca

25. Douglas Coupland’s Generation X: An Alternative Voice I never have”, arguing that he addresses issues relevant to himself and his peer group who grew up in Vancouver (Hall, Sharon K. “douglas coupland” http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/imperial/canada/coupland.htm

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture : an alternative voice This page last revised 18 May 1998 Contemporary Literary Criticism , Vol. 39, 29). The subsequent success of Generation X both in America and Europe, indicate that the experiences Coupland records are global, appealing to a wide audience who share his fears and expectations. While the debate about the lack of a distinctive Canadian voice continues, the critical reaction to Generation X Globe and Mail Generation X , or that Books in Canada Books in Canada , Vol. 21, 44-6). Typical of this critical reaction, Laurel Boone in a Books in Canada review of Generation X Generation X Books in Canada . Vol. 20, 50-1). (Coupland, Douglas. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture The reason Coupland was overlooked may be due to the fact that his novel was viewed as the antithesis of conventional Canadian writing. While there is a Canadian dimension to Generation X Generation X , 86), the characters create their own rules and attempt to live by them. Forging their own identities they recall their earlier existences, realizing that many within the collective mass routinely and monotonously continue to live similar lives, but due to the nature of society are powerless to escape: ...the realization that the smiles that they wear in their daily lives are the same as the smiles worn by people who have been good-naturedly fleeced, but fleeced nonethelessand who are unable because of social convention to show their anger (

26. WTF Douglas Coupland!? On Flickr - Photo Sharing! douglas coupland, canadian author, hawks the new blackberry in what appears to be an accidental spoof of the this is your brain, this is your brian on http://www.flickr.com/photos/ideaconstructor/275953373/

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27. JPod The official website for JPod, the new novel by douglas coupland, published by Bloomsbury. on May 15th 2006 in the USA and on June 5th 2006 in the UK. http://www.jpod.info/

28. Douglas Coupland A bibliography of douglas coupland s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/douglas-coupland/

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29. BBC News | UK | Douglas Coupland (version 164.4.0.3) Having given us Generation X and Microserfs, author douglas coupland has done his fair share of charting changes in the modern world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1608478.stm

CATEGORIES TV RADIO COMMUNICATE ... INDEX SEARCH You are in: UK Front Page World UK ... AudioVideo SERVICES Daily E-mail News Ticker Mobiles/PDAs Feedback ... Low Graphics Friday, 19 October, 2001, 11:16 GMT 12:16 UK Douglas Coupland (version 164.4.0.3) Having given us Generation X and Microserfs, author Douglas Coupland has done his fair share of charting changes in the modern world. But, he tells BBC News Online's Giles Wilson, he's been expecting this recent grim turn of events. In the time it takes for you to read this article, Douglas Coupland will have subtly detected a new trend. So relentlessly up-to-date has his work been that it makes you wonder what he did before there was a zeitgeist. His 1991 classic pop novel Generation X defined and - arguably - helped perpetuate the drifting, slacker, disengagement which marked its time. Just as Windows 95 was released, his book Microserfs revealed some old truths about working in the new economy. And then in 1998, Girlfriend in a Coma tapped into end-of-century disenchantment. Pharmaceutical paranoia So what about these strange days? When writing his new book, All Families are Psychotic, Coupland fell out with his US publishers who felt the book - a bizarre tale of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, disease and drugs - would be too uncommercial.

30. Douglas Coupland Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris Alibris has new used books by douglas coupland, including hardcovers, softcovers, rare, outof-print first editions, signed copies, and more. http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Coupland, Douglas

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31. Bloomsbury.com - Bloomsbury Author Information Novelist douglas coupland is the author of the eradefining bestsellers Generation X and Microserfs, and, more recently, All Families Are Psychotic, http://www.bloomsbury.com/Authors/microsite.asp?id=1080§ion=1&aid=1581

32. Douglas Coupland On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online There are 138 conversations about douglas coupland s books. edit delete. Internet Book List Author Information douglas coupland http://www.librarything.com/author/couplanddouglas

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... Blog © D.J. Weir 4 pictures add a picture Author: Douglas Coupland Also known as: DOUGLAS COPELAND Coupland Douglas Coupland Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Douglas Coupland combine/separate works Microserfs 2098 copies, 22 reviews 1992 copies, 14 reviews Girlfriend in a coma 1343 copies, 14 reviews Hey Nostradamus! : a novel 1138 copies, 11 reviews All families are psychotic : a novel 1126 copies, 12 reviews jPod 1091 copies, 36 reviews Life after God 1036 copies, 5 reviews Shampoo planet 985 copies, 5 reviews Miss Wyoming 853 copies, 3 reviews Eleanor Rigby : a novel 807 copies, 11 reviews Polaroids from the Dead 456 copies, 2 reviews The gum thief : a novel 198 copies, 9 reviews Souvenir of Canada 144 copies, 1 review City of glass : Douglas Coupland's Vancouver 126 copies, 2 reviews Souvenir of Canada 2 61 copies, review see all 22 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars

33. Interview | Douglas Coupland Though he s the first to play it down, douglas coupland has been blazing literary and cultural paths since the publication of his first book, Generation X, http://januarymagazine.com/profiles/dcoupland.html

Books by Douglas Coupland: Generation X (1991) Shampoo Planet (1992) Life After God (1994) Microserfs (1995) Polaroids from the Dead (1996) Girlfriend in a Coma (1998) Lara's Book: Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon (1998) Miss Wyoming (1999) City of Glass (2000) Buy it online "I accidentally see things. And it's not necessarily the future, it's just kind of the twisted way I look at the world. It's been 10 years like 70 dog years since X. Really, high school seems like closer to here." Though he's the first to play it down, Douglas Coupland has been blazing literary and cultural paths since the publication of his first book, Generation X in 1991. "I just see the world the way I see it," Coupland shrugs when asked if the generation-defining career course he set for himself has brought any pressure. "It's just kind of the twisted way I look at the world." Those twists have led to a string of bestsellers and, perhaps more importantly, a series of Coupland-created lenses through which many of us have viewed our world. For someone who has created dystopic fictional microcosms with a style that has sometimes verged on the precocious, Coupland seems surprisingly even, modest and dare I say it? normal. The kind of figure he cuts wouldn't raise your head in a crowd: average height, average build, average mien. Soft-spoken and with a politeness that underlines his nationality, the things Douglas Coupland says demand more attention than the way he says them.

34. Living Digitally: Review Of "JPod" By Douglas Coupland If you re looking for a book that celebrates geekdom and video games like Death in the Afternoon celebrates virility, then read douglas coupland s JPod. http://www.livingdigitally.net/2008/01/review-of-jpod.html

Living Digitally a blog for technophiles Main Review of "JPod" by Douglas Coupland Read it? If you're a self-proclaimed geek, by all means. If you're looking for a book that celebrates geekdom and video games like Death in the Afternoon celebrates virility, then read Douglas Coupland's JPod JPod is about five cube mates — each with their own manias, neuroses, and complexes — who work for an overly corporate and bureaucratic gaming company in Vancouver. I use the term "work" loosely, however. The majority of their time is spent managing their dysfunctional families, soothing their angst, indulging their fetishes, placating their idiotic managers, and either issuing or participating in bizarre challenges like taking the first hundred thousand digits of pi, inserting a single incorrect digit, and seeing who can find it first. If you're a software developer, or if you've ever worked with software developers, you're probably following right along. Moby Dick one day). It was page 184, and in particular the passage below, that taught me how to read JPod: "Ethan, watching you play Manhunt is like watching a steak being carved at Benihana."

35. Generation X Neo-logisms douglas coupland s Generation X Neologisms. Ever since reading Generation X for the first time a few years ago, I ve often wished I could have a quick http://www.scn.org/~jonny/genx.html

Douglas Coupland's Generation X Neo-logisms Ever since reading Generation X 101-ism: (page 85) The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail, all aspects of life using half-understood pop psychology as a tool. 2 + 2 = 5-ism: (page 139) Caving in to a target marketing strategy aimed at oneself after holding out for a long period of time. "Oh, all right, I'll buy your stupid cola. Now just leave me alone." Air Family: (page 111) Describes the false sense of community experienced among coworkers in an office environment. Anti-Sabbatical: (page 35) A job take with the sole intention of staying only for a limited period of time (often one year). The intention is usually to raise enough funds to partake in another, more personally meaningful activity such as watercolor sketching in Crete o r designing computer knit sweaters in Hong Kong. Employers are rarely informed of intention. Anti-Victim Device (AVD): (page 114) A small fashion accessory worn on an otherwise conservative outfit which announces to the world that one still has a spark of individuality burning inside: 1940s retro ties and earrings (on men), feminist buttons, noserings (women), and th e now almost completely extinct teeny weeny "rattail" haircut (both sexes).

36. Village Voice > Books > Douglas Coupland's JPod: Comfortably Number: Life Under douglas coupland s JPod Comfortably Number Life Under Google. http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0624,lim,73487,10.html

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37. This Blog Sits At The: Douglas Coupland And The Blackberry Pearl Strictly speaking, there is nothing odd about the fact that douglas coupland is now a celebrity spokesman for Blackberry Pearl. Wait a second. http://www.cultureby.com/trilogy/2006/11/douglas_couplan.html

hostName = '.cultureby.com'; This Blog Sits at the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Main November 13, 2006 Douglas Coupland and the Blackberry Pearl Lots of celebrities sell goods today. Peyton Manning is a pitchman for Mastercard. Tiger Woods sells Buicks. Gwyneth Paltrow is fast becoming an endorsement machine. Strictly speaking, there is nothing odd about the fact that Douglas Coupland is now a celebrity spokesman for Blackberry Pearl. Wait a second. Douglas Coupland is now a spokesman for Blackberry Pearl? Coupland's Generation X was to fiction what Nirvana's Smells like Teen Spirit was to music what Richard Linklater's Slacker was to film. All appeared in 1991 and all helped shape the cultural moment. As it turned out, this moment was deeply ambivalent about materialism and downright hostile to marketing. I'm not complaining. If Coupland can persuade Blackberry to hire him, well and good. I have no doubt that he will use the proceeds to fund the continued productivity of one Douglas Coupland. But it is necessary to see that Blackberry hires Coupland precisely to lend his cultural significance to the brand, that it might become more glorious, better defined, and more profitable. Coupland brings several things. He is a Renaissance man of a kind, comfortable in several media. He has a certain international reach. He is restless and experimental in his creative undertakings. But, most of all, and the very point of the hire, surely, is that Coupland lends to Blackberry some of his standing as a man who reads culture with perspicuity and power, and the fact that he read the early 1990s so well he helped to give it shape and form.

38. Globeandmail.com: Douglas Coupland's Caption: Wow! What A Great Way To Start The Although he is best known for his landmark slacker novel Generation X – and coining such catchphrases as the McJob – douglas coupland has since written six http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080104.whowtheyseeit0105/BN

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39. Douglas Coupland - JPod | Emily Carr Institute Of Art + Design Canadian author douglas coupland (84), who wrote his first film screenplay with last year s Everything s Gone Green, has written a new TV series based on http://www.eciad.ca/node/1425

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40. Girlfriend In A Coma - Douglas Coupland The newest novel from Canadian author douglas coupland is the quirky pseudocomedy Girlfriend in a Coma. As with some of his earlier books, http://www.unb.ca/web/bruns/9900/issue12/entertainment/book1.html

Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland Reagan Books Stephen Butters / The Brunswickan The newest novel from Canadian author Douglas Coupland is the quirky pseudo-comedy Girlfriend in a Coma. As with some of his earlier books, such as Microserfs and Generation X (because of which Coupland is generally credited with coining the term), his latest novel is a humorous and cynical critique of Western society and the direction in which it seems to be moving. Girlfriend in a Coma is primarily the story of Karen McNeil (the girlfriend mentioned in the title) and Richard Doorland (the boyfriend of the girlfriend mentioned in the title), two high school seniors living in late-seventies Vancouver. Shortly before the end of her graduation from high school, Karen falls into a mysterious and seemingly incurable coma. As Karen tries to absorb and cope with close to two decades of lost time, her friends and family attempt to do likewise with her unexpected return. Then, somewhat abruptly, the world ends, leaving Karen, Richard, Megan, and their friends as the only survivors. Things generally got weirder from there.

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