Douglas Coupland

J Pod

jPod is a CBC series based on the 2006 Douglas Coupland novel of the same name. It focuses on a group of game designers at the fictional Neotronic Arts in Vancouver BC. More specifically, it follows the darkly humourous...

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City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver

By Coupland, Douglas £12.61 01 Nov 2009 Paperback Douglas & McIntyre This irresistible little book offers a very different take on Vancouver, one of the world's most beautiful cities. Douglas Coupland applies his unique...

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Leah MacLaren on literary prizes

Meh, says she. Why do we line up for prize listed books?* Because we're told to. And like good Canadians, we likes to be linin' up, whether fer da books or at da Tim Hortons fer our double-doubles, eh? Like everyone else, I...

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Atlas Sound - Logos

Logos: the name makes me think of 1) Douglas Coupland's Corporate Safety Blanket No. 1, a snug throw spangled with the brand names whose very fonts and hues have burned into our subconscious: Microsoft, Kodak, Ford. Imagine the...

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Lisa Foad: From bartending to Relit award

Lisa Foad won’t be getting her Relit award ring until later in this week when she flies to Ottawa for the ceremony. Her excitement has not abated since she found out she received the award for her debut collection of short...

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The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History by John Ortved

Site of Review. The complete review's Review: The Simpsons is essentially a work of oral history about the popular animated TV show of the same name, which is now "the longest-running entertainment program of all time". As the...

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The outsider and the war of the words

Your account has been frozen. And when the name of the new director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival was finally made known last week there was a blizzard of phone calls, texts and e-mails dissecting the news. But...

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Page Turners

Best known for the 2003 best selling novel ‘The Da Vinci Code’, American author Dan Brown returns with ‘The Lost Symbol’ which, on the day it was released, sold one million in hardcover and e-book versions in the US, the UK and...

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Your guide to the week's entertainment

by marsha lederman DanceThe Strange Adventure ! of Myself and (in)habitat ! An opportunity to see two Vancouver dance companies perform different works at the same venue on the same night: Les Productions Figlio's Artistic...

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Crush creates three-part Douglas Coupland campaign

Following on from its animations last year promoting cult author Douglas Coupland's book The Gum Thief, Canadian studio Crush has created a set of three shorts -- including two animations -- for his new book, Generation A.

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