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	Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus! Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Coupland concentrates his attention on the victims of the crime, not the investigators or the perpetrators.
		Coupland then jumps eleven years into the future to 1999, telling the story of Jason, who was secretly married to Cheryl shortly before the killings.
		Coupland doesn't dwell on the supernatural aspects of the afterlife, or anything else, though he starts building a house of cards for the faithful that can be delicately dispersed with the slightest breeze.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2003/coupland-hey_nostradamus.htm (1003 words)

	Douglas Coupland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Douglas Coupland (born December 30, 1961) is a major Canadian fiction writer as well as a playwright and visual artist.
		Coupland was born to Dr. Douglas Charles Thomas and C. Janet Coupland on a Royal Canadian Air Force base in Baden-Söllingen, West Germany.
		Coupland’s literary influences are largely post-World War II novelists such as Margaret Drabble, Truman Capote, Kurt Vonnegut, Joan Didion, and the writings of Andy Warhol.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglas_Coupland (1611 words)

	The Books of Douglas Coupland - a Feature Article by the The Phantom Tollbooth
		Douglas Coupland hit the nail on the head when he wrote that we are the first generation to be raised without religion--we inhabit a society that would rather believe in nothing than accept that there is something special going on.
		Coupland does not explain what strange virus has put the world to bed, but then this is not as important as the apathy that spread through the world before that.
		Douglas Coupland is one of many artists who is questioning what is going on in and beyond the world, and as we have the answers, or some of them at least, perhaps we should start speaking a little louder.
	www.tollbooth.org /2000/features/coupland.html (1620 words)

	Douglas Coupland praises Vancouver's dynamism
		Coupland's take on his town is so non-linear he resorts to the arbitrary sequence of the alphabet to put his thoughts in order.
		Coupland explains that the format arose from the answers he became practised at giving to out-of-town visitors who repeatedly asked him about the same things.
		Coupland makes no apology if the city that emerges is characterized more by contrast and paradox than Thorsell's urban virtues of "critical mass and serious intent." Vancouver does lack history, Coupland admitted in an interview with Maclean's.
	members.tripod.com /coupland/cg1.html (958 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hey Nostradamus!: Books: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Coupland has long been a genre unto himself, and his latest novel fits the familiar template: earnest sentiment tempered by sardonic humor and sharp cultural observation.
		Coupland's insight into the claustrophobic world of devout faith is impressive-one of his more unexpected characters is Jason's father, a pious, crusty villain who gradually morphs into a sympathetic figure-but when he extends his spiritual explorations to encompass psychic swindles, the novel loses its focus.
		Coupland has always been better at comic set pieces than consistent storytelling, and his lack of narrative control is particularly evident here.
	www.amazon.ca /Hey-Nostradamus-Douglas-Coupland/dp/0679312706 (1933 words)

	Boing Boing: Coupland's JPod: the Anti-Microserfs
		Coupland has long been a favorite writer of mine, someone who was able to tell stories about people who could use irony to distance themselves from the worst parts of their lives, but transcend irony to come to the best parts of their lives.
		Coupland's earlier books, like 1995's Microserfs, tell the stories of smart, committed young people working their guts out because they believe in the transformative power of technology, because their pure passion for technology unites them.
		Coupland has written himself as a character into the book, someone reviled by his other characters, presumably for having duped them into thinking that irony and a career in tech will make them happy and fulfilled.
	www.boingboing.net /2006/06/09/couplands_jpod_the_a.html (624 words)

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		Douglas Coupland was born December 30, 1961 on a Canadian military base in Baden-Sollingen, Germany.
		Coupland's interest in Generation X first emerged in a 1988 article for Vancouver magazine.
		Instead, Coupland moved to Palm Springs, California, to write his first book, Generation X. He has repeatedly resisted, after the publication of Generation X, to be called the spokesperson for his generation.
	membres.lycos.fr /coupland/coupbiog.html (589 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Girlfriend in a Coma: Books: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Coupland writes these scenes fantastically well - they are questions we've all probably asked ourselves, and maybe had drunken conversations about - but he makes the characters do it in a way that's somehow both touchingly innocent but profound at the same time.
		Douglas Coupland is a Canadian Author whose early 90's novel Generation X accidently defined a generation struggling to grow into adulthood.
		Coupland takes a group of characters surrounded by pop culture references and global branding and sees them from their teens through to their thirties before forcing them to confront issues that they were always to busy to think about; love, death, family, enviromental destruction, the future and what exactly are we here for anyway?
	www.amazon.co.uk /Girlfriend-Coma-Douglas-Coupland/dp/0006551270 (1683 words)

	Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland: Reviews
		Coupland's arrangement of the joy and pain of his characters' lives is daring and inspiring, and its surprises linger long in the mind.
		Coupland's ear for the vernacular is solid, and his prose is lean and stripped, making for a fast read.
		As readable and entertaining as Coupland's writing has been since his widely read first novel, Generation X, was published in 1991, there's no conflict here, and nothing moves the story forward because it's not clear what any of the characters really needs.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/couplanddouglas/eleanorrigby (707 words)

	Amazon.de: Jpod: English Books: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Already dubbed Microserfs 2.0 by some pundits--a winking allusion to Douglas Coupland's previous novel Microserfs, which similarly chronicled pop-culture-damaged twentysomething misfits flailing, foundering, and occasionally succeeding in the high-tech sector--JPod is, like all of Coupland's novels, a byproduct of its era and yet strangely detached from it.
		They also know that Coupland on a roll is both savagely observant and laugh-out-loud funny: "Bree was showing someone photos of her recent holiday visiting Korean animation sweathshops.
		Coupland's cultural name-dropping is predictable (Ikea, the Drudge Report, etc.), as is the device of bringing in a fictional Douglas Coupland to save Ethan's day more than once.
	www.amazon.de /Jpod-Douglas-Coupland/dp/1596911042 (633 words)

	So You Have Nothing , Douglas Coupland? - a Feature of The Phantom Tollbooth
		The books of Douglas Coupland are an excuse for the world to discuss its insecurities and doubts and fears about life, God and the future.
		Coupland once spoke of Karen Carpenter by saying she lived with ten feet of Plexiglass surrounding her.
		Coupland's books reveal an empty hole that is left when only work, appearance, sex, money and possessions are used to fill the rooms in our heart.
	www.tollbooth.org /2001/features/coupland.html (1425 words)

	Coupland,Douglas Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Douglas Coupland returns to reinventing Canada with additional proof that his bestseller Souvenir of Canada made clear: Canada is way more than slightly cool.
		Coupland's net has a colorful, lively mix of cultural commentary and images that include a tour of Nanaimo bars; unforgettable railways photos; and a double-headed goose that symbolizes the...
		Douglas Coupland's valentine to Canada looks at how it feels to be a Canadiannow and imagines what it might feel like to be a Canadian in the future.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Coupland,Douglas (1095 words)

	Interview \| Douglas Coupland
		Soft-spoken and with a politeness that underlines his nationality, the things Douglas Coupland says demand more attention than the way he says them.
		In City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver, Coupland's strong connection with design is as apparent as the words he chooses to share.
		In a section on nearby Grouse Mountain, Coupland writes that "the air is thin, the view is spectacular, and the presence of something holy is always just a breath and a glance away, off in the hinterlands."
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/dcoupland.html (1895 words)

	MetroActive Books \| Douglas Coupland
		Road rules: Gen X author Douglas Coupland may be tired of talking about his new book, Miss Wyoming, but the critics aren't--the novel is being hailed by some as a signpost of maturity in Coupland's unorthodox writing career.
		IT IS A DECIDEDLY low-energy Douglas Coupland who crouches at the curb in front of his San Francisco hotel.
		Fortunately, Douglas Coupland is the kind of author who has a lot on his mind and needs very little prompting to divulge it.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/02.10.00/coupland-0006.html (1103 words)

	Literary Lights: Douglas Coupland
		When Douglas Coupland's niece Siri came into the world two years ago without a left hand, her family felt anger and confusion.
		Coupland, one of four children, describes his own family as "idiosyncratic." Are the Drummonds a thinly veiled version of the Couplands?
		Coupland has written eight other books (including "Shampoo Planet" and "Microserfs"), but his first work, "Generation X: Tales From an Accelerated Culture," is his most acclaimed.
	coupland.tripod.com /af12.html (750 words)

	Boing Boing: Douglas Coupland models his life & books on net-rumors about him
		Douglas Coupland makes a habit of following the Internet gossip about his proclivities and habits -- when he finds a juicy rumor about his hobbies (such as the idea that he's an avid meteor collector), he tries out whatever the rumor has him doing.
		He's written a new novel, JPod, in which "Douglas Coupland" appears as a character, based on the nasty things that people write about him on the net.
		Coupland is ostensibly writing an article for Wired on "designer prisoner-of-conscience labor," but he's secretly developing a gadget and, not incidentally, looking to poach programmers from Electronic Arts.
	www.boingboing.net /2006/05/13/douglas_coupland_mod.html (275 words)

	Amazon.de: Hey Nostradamus!: English Books: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Readers of Douglas Coupland's more recent fictions have become accustomed to encountering characters touched by tragedy, whether it be falling into comas, surviving plane crashes or becoming infected with the AIDS virus after bizarre shooting incidents.
		Douglas Coupland ist mit diesem Buch zu meinem neuen Lieblingsautor geworden.
		Erneut hat Douglas Coupland es geschafft, mich mit einer klugen und emotionalen Geschichte in den Bann zu ziehen.
	www.amazon.de /Hey-Nostradamus-Douglas-Coupland/dp/0007182589 (1840 words)

	Review \| jPod by Douglas Coupland
		And while he does seem to -- enjoy them, that is -- Douglas Coupland -- the character -- is more than a passing idea in jPod.
		And Douglas Coupland is one of the few writers who could have pulled it off both effectively and unaffectedly.
		Fifteen years after Douglas Coupland changed the way we viewed the world with Generation X, the author is still astonishingly fresh and relevant.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/jpod.html (856 words)

	Amazon.fr : Polaroids from the Dead: Livres en anglais: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A collection of essays by Douglas Coupland, whose first novel Generation X received critical acclaim.
		In his mid-30s, Coupland writes about what it means to grow up and the realization that he is not young anymore.
		Coupland teaches survival of the hippest as the world plunges toward a "new thought-based economy." $100,000 ad/promo; translation rights: HarperCollins.
	www.amazon.fr /Polaroids-Dead-Douglas-Coupland/dp/0060987219 (304 words)

	The Dark Side of Douglas Coupland \| The News is NowPublic.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Douglas Coupland doesn't want to end the Book Club meeting on a positive note.
		But Coupland is visibly pleased to be sitting up in front of us, relating his experiences during the research phase of driving around Vancouver looking for the perfect place to get rid of a corpse.
		There were a lot of those that night trailing loose thoughts and quirky starts and pauses, as Coupland took questions from the audience about his take on programmers, micro-autism, the Google phenomenon and our divorce from history.
	www.nowpublic.com /the_dark_side_of_douglas_coupland?comment (495 words)

	Amazon.ca: All Families Are Psychotic: Books: Douglas Coupland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Coupland's work here shows he merits more than his 15 minutes of fame as the chronicler and inventor of Generation X. John Oughton (Books in Canada) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
		Coupland's books thrive on the fact that NO ONE ELSE would write it that way, give it that plot twist, or make things quite as insane (or for that matter, completely normal) as he does it.
		Coupland is a supremely talented writer, and his novels are usually engaging reads.
	www.amazon.ca /Families-Are-Psychotic-Douglas-Coupland/dp/0679311831 (1821 words)

	The Couplandization of Douglas Coupland. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was a destiny suggested by Coupland's own work: Studded with sharp sociological insights, his early novels captured the anomie of the young middle class in the 1990s and crisply anatomized the pop cultural references that were the new lingua franca of disillusioned North American twentysomethings.
		What Coupland the character makes clear is how Coupland the author has become a more acutely self-conscious writer than ever, choosing to deploy favored tropes and motifs that he has used before.
		This is Coupland's successful effort to get us to walk a mile in the mind of a computer jock—a mind more facile with numbers than words, and capable of anti-social bursts of attention.
	www.slate.com /id/2142639/?nav=tap3 (1436 words)

	INTERVIEW WITH DOUGLAS COUPLAND
		Douglas Coupland is a lucid Canadian writer who loves nature.
		Coupland is a frequent contributor for The New Republic, The New York Times, and Wired.
		Coupland was born on December 30, 1961 in a NATO base in West Germany.
	www.altx.com /int2/douglas.coupland.html (2199 words)

	Metrolife: Douglas Coupland \| Metro.co.uk
		Coupland's new novel, JPod, will surprise those who have followed his career into increasingly darker territory over the past decade, but not those who stopped reading around the mid-1990s.
		They are classic Coupland creations in that they possess little characterisation (to compensate, Coupland has them provide their own biographies), are involved in instantly forgettable plots and are incapable of emotion (one of them builds a hug-machine in order to get round this).
		Coupland is the most prominent author to have got to grips with how the technological revolution has impacted on society.
	www.metro.co.uk /metrolife/article.html?in_article_id=14893&in_page_id=9 (647 words)

	Douglas Coupland’s Generation X: an alternative voice
		Coupland wrote the novel in America, and it was here rather than his native country that it was actually published.
		The reason Coupland was overlooked may be due to the fact that his novel was viewed as the antithesis of conventional Canadian writing.
		Detailing an era in which divorce, diminished expectations and the threat of nuclear annihilation are prevalent, Coupland moves away from the standard view of garrison mentality, concentrating instead on issues which relate to the lives of a considerable section of global society.
	www.qub.ac.uk /schools/SchoolofEnglish/imperial/canada/coupland.htm (743 words)

	The Bogus Tribute to Douglas Coupland
		"Douglas Coupland is putting his two passions of art and literature together, literally, in a new park to be built in downtown Toronto.
		Coupland was reluctant to describe the park as being both literal and literary - "that's not just a tag line, eh" - the art pieces and physical characteristics of the park will draw upon works from Canada's literary greats.
		Nothing more was said on the issue of generational nomenclature until the early 1990s when Douglas Coupland published his expose of the generation that followed the boomers, Generation X. Suddenly two generations had been tagged and bagged.
	www.coupland.dk (1569 words)

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