Douglas Coupland

"The Lost Symbol" tops Maclean's fiction list for the week ending Oct. 6

By: THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week of Oct. 6 compiled by Maclean's magazine. FICTION 1 (1) The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown 2 (2) The Year of the Flood...

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Creating the new cultural salon

Tina Srebotnjak, of the Toronto Reference Library, say the spacious Appel Salon is an ideal venue for thinkers, writers and newsmakers to meet. Reference library's $30M reno aims to bring stars of word and music to the heart of...

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Readers' responses to Douglas Coupland's Generation X

Readers' responses to Douglas Coupland's Generation X Douglas Coupland was the first novelist to come to the Guardian book club with a psychological technique for encouraging readers to ask questions. In that frightening gap...

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"The Lost Symbol" tops Maclean's fiction list for the week ending Sept. 29

TORONTO - Here are the top 10 hardcover fiction and non-fiction books in Canada for the week of Sept. 29 compiled by Maclean's magazine. FICTION 1 (1) The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown 2 (2) The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood 3...

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Alice Munro, Douglas Coupland in running for Writers Trust

The renowned author, who lives in Clinton, Ont., was named a finalist for the $25,000 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize on Wednesday for her short story collection "Too Much Happiness." If Alice does happen to win everything...

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Slacker Vancouver Is So Over: Mayor (in News)

Robertson urges city to build new identity as centre for green innovation. For the Olympics to pay off, we must see and exploit this unique chance to transform Vancouver. Does the world perceive laid-back Vancouver as a slacker...

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Shorties (Douglas Coupland, Broken Bells, and more)

Financial Times reviews Douglas Coupland's latest novel, Generation A. Generation A is not in the first order of Coupland’s work, yet it shows why he is one of the most popular serious writers of our time. It gathers its...

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Generation A

Generation A By Douglas Coupland William Heinemann £16.99, 320 pages FT Bookshop price: £13.59 Douglas Coupland’s novels often begin with a recognition of crisis. In Generation A, the shock that drives Coupland’s characters out...

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In his new book, Douglas Coupland plagiarizes ZeFrank

ze's page :: zefrank.com: douglad coupland rips off the earth sandwhich While I loved Generation X when I was fifteen, I've thought every book Coupland wrote after was a bit crap. This just solidifies that notion. Ze asked...

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Bringing back the old

It's back! Part of the boom in nostalgia TV is simply because some vintage television is very good. Justin Buxton of JB Hi-Fi says that while their best-selling DVDs tend to be first-run television such as Dexter and...

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