41. Information Portal All families are psychotic / douglas coupland. by coupland, douglas. Flamingo, 2001. The gum thief / douglas coupland ; Glove pond / Roger Thorpe. http://catalogue.onkaparinga.sa.gov.au/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&props&

42. Chapters.indigo.ca: City Of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver: Douglas Couplan douglas coupland describes the spirit of his hometown, Vancouver, in this fascinating, stylish collection of words and images. Vancouver is a beautiful city http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/City-Glass-Douglas-Couplands-Vancouver-Dougl

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43. Douglas Coupland Bio Contains a blurb about the author and his short story, Fire at the Ativan Factory . English/Spanish/Catalan http://www.barcelonareview.com/bio/dc_b07.htm

Douglas Coupland Douglas Coupland has an official website and quite a few fan-based ones; S. Chung's The Coupland File , updated regularly, is well worth a visit. Book ordering Internet Bookshop Amazon Canada's Internet Bookstore Douglas Coupland was born a Canadian citizen on 30 December, 1961 on a NATO base in Baden-Sollingen, Germany. Shortly afterwards he moved to Vancouver, where he still lives. Coupland's books to date include Generation X, Shampoo Planet, Microserfs, Poloroids From The Dead and Girlfriend in a Coma . They have been translated into twenty-two languages. Home Fire at the Ativan Factory Douglas Coupland nació como ciudadano canadiense el 30 de diciembre de 1961 en una base de la OTAN en Baden-Sollingen, Alemania. Poco después se trasladó a Vancouber, donde todavía vive. Hasta este momento ha publicado las novelas Generación X El planeta Champú Microsiervos La vida después de Dios (todas publicadas por Ediciones B) y Girlfriend in a Coma. Sus trabajos se han traducido a veintidós lenguas.

44. Douglas Coupland | Bloomsbury Theatre douglas coupland. Exclusive London Event Celebrating the 21st Birthday of Bloomsbury Publishers. Hot on the heels of JPod comes douglas new novel The Gum http://www.thebloomsbury.com/event/run/0910dc

@import url(/misc/drupal.css); @import url(/modules/event/event.css); @import url(/modules/img_assist/img_assist.css); @import url(/themes/bloomsbury/style.css); Navigation home news Bars and Catering Creative Learning ... Find Us Currently Popular Jimmy Carr - DVD Recording Danny Champion of the World Adele - Supported by Natty One Big LAUGH ... Strassman Search iCalendar Syndicate Douglas Coupland This event has now ended. It took place on the 9 Oct 2007. Exclusive London Event Celebrating the 21st Birthday of Bloomsbury Publishers Hot on the heels of JPod comes Douglas' new novel The Gum Thief. It's a cross between Clerks and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Roger, a divorced, middle-aged 'Aisles Associate' at Staples superstore, strikes up an unlikely friendship with goth Bethany after she discovers his imagined writings about her in a notebook. The Gum Thief reveals the comedy, loneliness and strange comforts of contemporary life. Brilliant! Tickets: £7, concessions £5 To book tickets call 0845 456 9876 or visit Blackwell, 100 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0JG Discussions/Talks calendar email this event The Bloomsbury Theatre : 15 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AH :

45. Douglas Coupland: The Gum Thief · Spike Magazine Relating the relatively humdrum tale of two ‘associates’ in a Staples stationary superstore, it often sounds like a soap opera rather than the latest http://spikemagazine.com/douglas-coupland-the-gum-thief.php

SpikeMagazine.com Book Reviews Interviews Features ... Contact Contributor Dan Coxon The Gum Thief Douglas Coupland See all books by Douglas Coupland at Amazon.co.uk Amazon.com In recent years Douglas Coupland has achieved a remarkably consistent output. It’s not that every novel he’s written has been a masterpiece – no writer manages that – but rather that his great novels have been regularly interspersed with his less satisfying ones. Microserfs Miss Wyoming Hey Nostradamus! and JPod all felt like significant contributions to an impressive body of work; in between, however, we were handed Girlfriend In A Coma All Families Are Psychotic and Eleanor Rigby , all worthy in their own right but none of them causing much of a stir on the literary scene (maybe Mr Coupland should stop naming books after pop songs). This pattern suggests that The Gum Thief should be a disappointment, and it certainly doesn’t feel like one of his finest. Relating the relatively humdrum tale of two ‘associates’ in a Staples stationary superstore, it often sounds like a soap opera rather than the latest offering from one of contemporary literature’s most intriguing voices. To dismiss it out of hand would be a mistake, however, as its relatively mundane surface hides an intriguing study of the epistolary form - and a commentary on the nature of the novel itself. The Gum Thief opens in typical epistolary-novel style, swapping back and forth between two characters: Bethany, a young, disillusioned Goth working in the Staples store; and Roger, a divorced, quiet loner who spends his days restocking the shelves and walking his dog. Beth discovers that Roger has been writing a diary from her point of view, and once the initial weirdness has passed she becomes intrigued by the fact that he’s imagined her so accurately.

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47. Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online : Douglas Coupland Burns McDonald's Buns! FRIES WITH THAT SHAKEDOWN? McJobbers, coupland (inset) douglas coupland s calling from 1991, and he wants his word back. McDonald s has been on a PR http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/03/fries-with-that-shakedown-mcjobbers.ph

var tcdacmd="dt"; Back Next Fresh Intelligence DULY NOTED Douglas Coupland Burns McDonald's Buns! FRIES WITH THAT SHAKEDOWN? McJobbers, Coupland (inset) Douglas Coupland 's calling from 1991, and he wants his word back. McDonald's has been on a PR offensive overseas this week with a campaign to persuade publications including the Oxford English Dictionary to change their definition of the pesky term "McJob." The word first popped up in the late '80s and was popularized by Generation X author Coupland . The dictionaries caught on in 2001. But McDonald's insists that a job with the company is, Kevin Federline ad spots aside, a good opportunity. In London, they've countered the negative McSlang with their own newspeak that touts the perks of working for the greasy burger chain: "McValued," "McBenefit," "McRespected," boast a recent series of posters. A bemused Coupland, reached by Radar , noted the time lag of McDonald's charm offensive and penned for us this inscrutable open letter (after the jump) ... Dear Ronald... McJob? For God's sake, that was 1991.... Strike while the iron's hot.

48. Bookslut | Eleanor Rigby By Douglas Coupland After reading All Families are Psychotic and Hey, Nostradamus!, I decided that douglas coupland was writing the same book over and over again. http://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2005_05_005372.php

@import "/c/style.css"; @import "/c/style.css"; Bookslut Home Features Reviews Columns ... Advertise May 2005 Sumana Harihareswara fiction Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland After reading All Families are Psychotic and Hey, Nostradamus! , I decided that Douglas Coupland was writing the same book over and over again. This was no matter to me as I was enjoying it. After Eleanor Rigby , though, I revise that assessment. Even though Eleanor Rigby has the same form as Coupland's previous works quirky, flawed narrator in or from the Pacific Northwest searches for God despite or because of a nutty family the substance of the novel isn't up to par. A multiple sclerosis patient has supernatural visions and helps tough but lonely Liz Dunn, the eponymous Eleanor Rigby, get over her deathwish. Readers of past Coupland novels will find nothing odd, and indeed a modicum of promise, in this summary. As usual, Coupland throws crazy turns into the plot, sometimes more or less gracefully. Those twists keep the pages turning even when the characters grow dreary, and therefore I'll spoil them as little as possible. Another Coupland staple: deep and black thoughts about religion and sociology. Dunn's dark musings on human nature can be compelling. But the morbid chatter in Dunn's narration becomes monotonous. Coupland did better in

49. BBC - Collective - Douglas Coupland 'hey Nostradamus!' (8/10) Michael Williams 29 August 03. Hey Nostradamus! by douglas coupland is out 01 September 03, published by Flamingo. useful link www.coupland.com http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A1158239

@import '/includes/tbenh.css'; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index 26th January 2008 Accessibility help Text only search 1000s of reviews, interviews and features: BBC Homepage front page music film ... help and faq's newsletter Receive our weekly email roundups. sign up Contact Us Like this page? Send it to a friend! New visitors: Returning members: editors review content by: editor It’s a revelation. Taking as his starting point a Columbine-style high school massacre in a quiet Canadian suburb, Coupland weaves a thematically luxuriant tapestry of moral questions about the human potential for evil, identity, religious dogma, loss and grief and much more. Narrated from four viewpoints, including a chilling “victim’s eye” viewpoint, the novel is about the search for patterns in the apparent randomness of life, and it reaffirms that Coupland has that most sacred gift of the novelist - the ability to tell thought-provoking, resonant stories. (8/10) Michael Williams 29 August 03 Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland is out 01 September 03, published by Flamingo.

50. Seattlest: Douglas Coupland's JPod On CBC Yes, it s true there s something a little cliche about our ongoing love of the works of douglas coupland. Generation X appealed to us in late high school, http://seattlest.com/2008/01/08/douglas_couplan.php

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51. Pieces Of Perplexio π: On Douglas Coupland So I started reading this advance copy of The Gum Thief, douglas coupland s latest novel. coupland s novels have this tendency to get in my headspace and http://wreallywrandom.blogspot.com/2007/08/on-douglas-coupland.html

Pieces of Perplexio π Thursday, August 30, 2007 on Douglas Coupland So I started reading this advance copy of The Gum Thief , Douglas Coupland's latest novel. Coupland's novels have this tendency to get in my headspace and fuck around a bit. That is to say there's a certain naked honesty in his characters that I really relate to, sometimes a little too closely and when that happens all I can think is, "Get out of my noggin, Coupland!" That being said he's still one of my favorite authors because he's one of the few that gets me to reflect deeply on my life, my thoughts, my motivations. Sometimes I suppose that's a good thing, and other times not so much. So anyway, I started reading this book, and mind you it's been 2 or 3 years since I've read anything by him as I somehow missed his last novel ( JPod, which incidentally one of my coworkers has lent me to read when I'm done with The Gum Thief ) so the impact his books have on me had faded with time, maybe to the point of growing sepia tones around the edges. But within the first page or two I'm thinking, "Awww, Bloody Hell, he's doing it again!" Oh and he's Canuck so I have to give him props for that.

52. Douglas Coupland - Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group douglas coupland was born on a Canadian NATO base in BadenSollingen, Germany, and raised in West Vancouver, where he still resides, in a house designed by http://www.douglas-mcintyre.com/author/54

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53. Beyond Robson | Vancouver Blog At the last minute I decided to check out Kurosawa s film Rhapsody in August at the Vancity Theatre last night (Monday), with douglas coupland providing http://www.beyondrobson.com/arts_film/2006/08/remembering_nagasaki/

About this site Contact us RSS Browse by Category Arts Music Film Fashion Food City Sports Tech By Author Amanda Nicole Andrea Warner Dave Niddrie Karl Yu Krisztina Kun Peter Pimentel Sean Orr Go August 08, 2006 Remembering Nagasaki Posted by Tom in At the last minute I decided to check out Kurosawa's film Rhapsody in August at the Vancity Theatre last night (Monday), with Douglas Coupland providing some introductory remarks. It wasn't an obvious choice: Kurosawa's penultimate film wasn't particularly well reviewed when it came out in 1990 ('a child's primer on the evils of war,' according to my trusty Time Out Film Guide), so I was intrigued to hear what Coupland had to say about it. In fact he only mentioned the movie in passing in his oblique intro - fair enough, Kurosawa was a didactic artist at the best of times and the film speaks for itself - but Coupland left a sour taste in the room when he abruptly wrapped up the post film discussion and called one lady "a fuss-budget" because she had the temerity to criticize it. Rhapsody in August is a simple but resonant fable about three generations of Japanese and their relationship to the war, in particular the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki August 9, 1945. It's a touching, simple film about making peace with the past - not the same thing as forgetting. The event was dominated by the testimony of an audience member from Nagasaki, who talked much more graphically than the film about the violence of that day (70,000 people died from that one bomb). She also talked about an ancient tree, only a few hundred yards from the epicenter of the blast, in the grounds of a hospital where 800 doctors and patients perished. The tree still survives, she says, and the hospital has been rebuilt around it.

54. MySpaceTV Videos: Douglas Coupland Video Channel The Gum Thief by douglas coupland by douglas coupland. Watch it on MySpaceTV. http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.Channel&ChannelID=255175741

55. Douglas Coupland On The Democratization Of Omniscience I used to envy douglas coupland because he worked for the shortlived Vista magazine, which blended business journalism and the examination of ideas and http://www.commonsensepr.com/2008/01/04/douglas-coupland-on-the-democratization-

b5media.com Advertise with us Enjoying this blog? Check out the rest of the Business Channel Common Sense PR Subscribe to Common Sense PR Add Common Sense PR to del.icio.us ... Add Common Sense PR to Google Reader Douglas Coupland on the Democratization of Omniscience by Eric Eggertson on January 4th, 2008 I used to envy Douglas Coupland because he worked for the short-lived Vista magazine, which blended business journalism and the examination of ideas and trends. Think Fast Company with more of a zen approach. He has always been a good source of ideas and analysis about how the generations after the baby boom deal with the celebrity crazed, brand crazed modern social landscape we inhabit. In a discussion recently he described Google as "the absolute dwarfing super technology that dwarfs everything else." Asked if he also does research on human history for his novels, he had this answer: "I really looked at mythology, fiction as far back as you can go… And there’s nothing in human or mythological experience that is preparing us for what we have just entered with Google and search engines and the democratization of omniscience. There’s absolutely nothing we can look to as a guidepost right now. We are in -  maybe for the first time ever - officially uncharted waters." "I’m interested in history, but I don’t think it can help us right now. And I think we ought to put on our thinking caps and invent a new myth, or a new situation."

56. Coupland - The End Of The World Earth now is not much more tan a waterlogged, barbecued briquette. And all it took was seven days. Not even that, really. douglas coupland. http://www.engr.psu.edu/sts/Courses/walton/readings/EotW.html

57. Powell's Books - City Of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver By Douglas Coupland From the noted chronicler of alternative culture and bestselling author of Microserfs, Generation X, and Polaroids from the Dead comes a witty survey http://www.powells.com/biblio?show=TRADE PAPER:USED:9781550548181:11.50

58. JPod By Douglas Coupland (Michael J. Radwin's Blog) JPod, by douglas coupland Last night I finished reading JPod, douglas coupland s sequel to Microserfs. Very entertaining and a quick read. http://www.radwin.org/michael/blog/2006/06/jpod_by_douglas_coupland.html

radwin.org Michael J. Radwin blog JPod by Douglas Coupland Search JPod by Douglas Coupland Comments (0) Last night I finished reading JPod , Douglas Coupland's "sequel" to Microserfs . Very entertaining and a quick read. I haven't laughed out loud reading a book in months. JPod has been described as "Microserfs for the Google generation", but perhaps "Microserfs for the EA generation" would be more appropriate, given the setting of a bunch of coders working for a videogame company. I had assumed that jPod had something to do with Apple's iPod (perhaps a " jPod = ++iPod; " joke of sorts), but you know what happens when you make an assumption. (You make an ass out of u and mption .) As we find out on page 47, the book is called jPod because the characters work in a part of the cubicle farm where each employee's last name begins with the letter J The book was a little darker than Microserfs (murder, people smuggling, forced heroin addiction and slavery) but par for the course for Coupland. Still not as good as my favorite Coupland novel (the underappreciated Miss Wyoming ) but it's among his top best work.

59. CR Blog » Blog Archive » Douglas Coupland Goes Viral In an unusual promotion for douglas coupland’s new novel, The Gum Thief, publisher Random House Canada approached production company Crush Toronto to make a http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/douglas-coupland-goes-viral/

@import url( http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/wp-content/themes/CRBlog/style.css ); @import "http://www.creativereview.co.uk/iotw/css/box.css"; Creative Review Search CR Blog SEARCH CRBlog Homepage Subscribe to CR E-CR News and views on visual communications from the writers of Creative Review CR Blog RSS Douglas Coupland goes viral Eliza 25/10/07, 13:02 Permalink Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) In an unusual promotion for Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief , publisher Random House Canada approached production company Crush Toronto to make a series of nine short film clips based on the book. The clips, all with narration by Coupland himself, are posted on YouTube (all nine shown above). Canongate The Gum Thief clips can also be viewed online at www.crushinc.com/gum_thief Posted in Commercials Film Websites Books (No comments) Post a comment We no longer require you to register and have a password in order to comment, simply fill in the form below. All comments are moderated so you may experience a short delay before your comment appears. CR encourages comments to be short and to the point. As a general rule, they should not run longer than the original post. Comments should show a courteous regard for the presence of other voices in the discussion. We reserve the right to edit or delete comments that do not adhere to this standard. Name e-Mail URL Comments POST Advertising Art Books ... Websites Sponsored links About CR Blog Credits Use of this website signifies your agreement to the Powered by Wordpress.org

60. John’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Gum Thief, By Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief, by douglas coupland. One of my favorite authors, but I didn’t really care for this book too much. coupland is one of the best writers in the http://john.jubjubs.net/2007/11/15/the-gum-thief-by-douglas-coupland/

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