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coupland.com The Canadian author most famous for his dissection of zeitgeist surfing novels Microserfs and JPod was recently on these shores promoting his new novel Generation A, an exercise in replicating the style of his 1991...
Douglas Coupland THE GLOBE AND MAIL Douglas Coupland is the greatest Canadian ironist of his time. Generation A, by Douglas Coupland, Random House Canada, 297 pages, $32.95 This is information I suspect Douglas Coupland would...
The Guardian reports that the Smashing Pumpkins will release a free 44-track album (actually 11 4-song EPs) digitally. The Georgia Straight profiles author Douglas Coupland. Wired lists 5 online apps that tap the internet's...
TORONTO - Sitting in his publisher's Toronto office, nursing a cup of not-strong-enough coffee, Douglas Coupland recalls a recent Twitter post he made about a gory experience at London's Heathrow Airp...
Read this deceptively satirical fable, and you'll think twice about grumbling over autumn's imminent arrival. It is set in the near future, at a time when Glenn Close and Ikea are still enough references, yet changing seasons...
The Beatles -- always thought they were a bit over-rated meself. But who am I to argue with the fifteen squillion people who've bought their records? And, in fairness, you have to acknowledge the enduring greatness of any band...
The epigraph for Douglas Coupland's new novel encapsulates what readers will love or hate about the book. Taken from Kurt Vonnegut's commencement address at Syracuse University in 1994, it starts with a mocking reference to...
The future of humanity is getting darker, not by the day, but one film premiere at a time. The latest offerings from Hollywood and the literary world are arriving on a wave of destruction, dehumanisation and post-apocalyptic...
Published Date: 13 September 2009 YOU know there's something up when you can't follow the plot of Ghost. I had put my struggling down to hysteria induced by that wobbly wet clay and the fact that on a Friday night I had nothing...
Douglas Coupland wonders what happened to kindness. By The Vancouver SunSeptember 12, 2009 3:40 AM Douglas Coupland wonders what happened to kindness. Enter the 14th Dalai Lama, who is coming to town to host a remarkable...
