Douglas Coupland is Canadian, born on a Canadian Air Force base near Baden-Baden, Germany, in 1961. In 1965 his family moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he continues to live and work. Coupland has studied art and design in Vancouver, Canada, Milan, Italy and Sapporo, Japan. His first novel, Generation X, was published in March of 1991. Since then he has published eleven novels and several non-fiction books in 35 languages and most countries on earth. He has written and performed for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford, England, and in 2001 resumed his practice as a visual artist, with exhibitions in spaces in North America, Europe, and Asia. 2006 marks the... Read full bio
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Shampoo Planet is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide -- those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, "Global Teens." Raised in...
...Tourism is the cornerstone of a city’s economic growth and financial success, author Douglas Coupland said Wednesday. The Vancouver writer delivered the keynote speech at the Cities Summit, a conference examining how city-building can be influenced...
...satirical pages. ? Considering the standard for inappropriateness set by these coloring books, do you think the recent Douglas Coupland publication, Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People, lives up to its title? The National Post has called the...
...from Viterbo. Visit www.parrinteractive.com to learn more. “Does a great job of generating an experience…” - Douglas Coupland (author of Generation X) “Delightfully rich and original…” - Roger Black (author of Web Sites That Work)...
...Tinies, Tim Burton’s Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Hillaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children, comes Douglas Coupland’s and Graham Roumieu’s Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People. The coupling of Coupland’s unhinged imagination...
...Douglas Coupland and Graham Roumieu, William Heinemann. Reviewed by David Sornig The titles of the tales in Highly Inappropriate Tales for Young People by writer Douglas Coupland and illustrator Graham Roumieu...
New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, December 20, 2011
..." he noted, much like our national obsession with hockey or Tim Hortons. Potter recalled an example in Douglas Coupland's 2002 nostalgic picture book Souvenir of Canada (Douglas & Mcintyre) in which Coupland remembers reading "Captaine Crounche" on a...
..." he noted, much like our national obsession with hockey or Tim Hortons. Potter recalled an example in Douglas Coupland's 2002 nostalgic picture book Souvenir of Canada (Douglas & Mcintyre, $29.95) in which Coupland remembers reading "Captaine Crounche"...
...most provocative art and thought take place. A meditation on the art of the interview by the exceptional Douglas Coupland captures HUO’s unique gift: Hans is one of the few people who know what a true interview out to accomplish, and he has an...
...Boxcutters to be their special podcast guest. John has chosen Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland as for everyone to read, while Ian has selected Room by Emma Donoghue and Kirstyn has recommended The Secret History by Donna...
...trip for we homeschoolers! 2. My top three favorite books (in no particular order) are Microserfs by Douglas Coupland , A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, and anything in the City Watch series by Terry Pratchett. 1. Despite my diehard...
Broke-Ass Stuart's Goddamn Website, October 2, 2011
...them (well, after 900 pages, you don’t have a choice, do you?) Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland An oldie-but-goodie. Douglas Coupland, fresh off his sudden popularity for writing and coining “Generation X” released this novel to mixed...
...impression of the author, you’d never read him again. For me, that’s been my experience with Douglas Coupland. He was an author I had written off without ever trying, only to finally read Generation A , which I then fell madly in love with. I...
...do it.DAVID WISEHART: What was your journey as a writer?KEREM MERMUTLU: I started to read writers like Douglas Coupland, J.D. Salinger and Bret Easton Ellis when I was a teenager and I only really began to seriously start writing when I was at art...
...different is not the information itself but the forms of life engendered by the materiality of technology.As Douglas Coupland noted in the Guardian recently: “Let’s face it, Google isn’t making us stupider, it’s simply making us realise that...