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Player One: What Is to Become of Us (CBC Massey Lecture) by Douglas Coupland, 2010-10-01

Terry by Douglas Coupland, 2005-10

The Gum Thief: A Novel by Douglas Coupland, 2007-10-02

City of Glass: Doug Coupland's Vancouver by Douglas Coupland, 2003-04

Polaroids from the Dead by Douglas Coupland, 1997-10-29

Generation X. Geschichten für eine immer schneller werdende Kultur. by Douglas Coupland, 1994-12-01

Planeta Champu (Spanish Edition) by Douglas Coupland, 1999-12

Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland, 2005

Girlfriend in a Coma. by Douglas Coupland, 2001-07-01

Generation X by Douglas Coupland, 1992-04

Generacion X (Spanish Edition) by Douglas Coupland, 1999-04

Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland, 2006-10-31

City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver by Douglas Coupland, 2009-11-10

Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! by Douglas Coupland, 2010-11-30

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Douglas Coupland
An interview by Alexander Laurence with a discussion about the author's book, Miss Wyoming .
http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/still_fresh/coupland.html

Extractions: I met Douglas in New York City recently, early in 2000. He was staying in a hotel in the upper 50s. I called him on the phone and he told that he was wearing a bozo suit and he would be easy to recognized. I had interviewed him before and was ready to be subverted by Coupland. When I interviewed him more than five years ago, he didn't really answer any of my questions. So this time I just had a conversation with him, and hopefully we would talk about his new book, Miss Wyoming , which I liked.
Guardian Unlimited Books | Authors | Coupland, Douglas
douglas coupland (1961). 5 Mar 2000, Every underdog has his day Miss Wyomingis douglas coupland's weirdest and most wonderful book so far.
http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,5917,-48,00.html

Extractions: Go to: Guardian Unlimited home UK news World news Archive search Arts Books Business EducationGuardian.co.uk Film Football Jobs MediaGuardian.co.uk Money The Observer Online Politics Shopping SocietyGuardian.co.uk Sport Talk Travel Audio Email services Special reports The Guardian The weblog The informer The northerner The wrap Advertising guide Crossword Headline service Syndication services Events / offers Help / contacts Information Newsroom Soulmates Style guide Travel offers TV listings Weather Web guides Guardian Weekly Money Observer Home Guardian Review By genre Reviews ... A writer with gifted timing: Microserfs (Gates as God in the world of computer programmers) was one of the first reactions to the multimedia boom, while his much-revered Generation X, commissioned as the next Yuppie Handbook and written as a (sort of) novel, caught the 90s mood - though Coupland insisted "I speak for myself, not for a generation. I never have." It received rapturous comparisons - the new Catcher in the Rye, with Coupland his generation's Jack Kerouac - and coined the term 'McJob'. 1998 saw him seize the Lara moment with Lara's Book: Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon, in which video games hit the coffee table.
Generation X
A comprehensive index of articles, reviews, and details about douglas coupland, the author who coined the term Generation X
http://membres.lycos.fr/coupland/coupgx.html
CBC 4 Kids: Douglas Coupland
The term Generation X comes from the title of a book by Canadian author douglas coupland. douglas coupland was born December 30, 1961 on a Canadian military base in BadenSollingen, Germany. douglas coupland. If you watch TV, listen to the radio, or read magazines you have probably heard the term Generation X.
http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/words/author-of-the-month/199902/coupland.html

Extractions: If you watch TV, listen to the radio, or read magazines you have probably heard the term Generation X. But have you ever wondered what the term means, or where it came from? While he didn't invent the term, Canadian author Douglas Coupland popularized it by using it as the title of one of his books. Generation X refers to the kids born just after the baby boom. Baby Boomers are that huge generation of people born between the end of the Second World War and the late '50s. Baby Boomers grew up to be today's yuppies. Gen X'ers are said to be depressed because they feel that the baby boomers took all the best jobs, bought all the houses, and left the X'ers with nothing but debt and a threatened environment. Couplands novel, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture , follows the lives of Andy, Clair, and Dag. These three "twenty-somethings" are overeducated and underemployed. They have left their empty lives in the city and moved to Palm Springs, California, where they work at low-paying "McJobs." They doubt everything and everybody, including themselves. In their spare time (which is almost all of the time) they tell each other made-up stories about their far-off relatives, long-ago jobs, and planets where the year is always 1974. These modern-day fairy tales reveal the storytellers' lives, and often have heavy moral conclusions.
Guardian Unlimited Books | Links | Coupland, Douglas
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Wired News: Coupland Samples HAL's Legacy
Is artificial intelligence up to the promise of HAL 9000, the star of Kubrick's epic 2001? douglas coupland, Space Odyssey addict, takes stock of a new book that tries to find out. By douglas coupland. Wired News
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,12353,00.html

Extractions: 04:00 AM May. 18, 1998 PT Artificial intelligence is the Holy Grail of secular culture, and the voice we have given AI is the voice of the HAL 9000 computer, the lovable, murderous central character of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 epic, 2001: A Space Odyssey To many of us, HAL is the voice not only of technology, but of deity, too. He has informed and inflamed our imaginations, from Palo Alto, California, to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and from Austin, Texas, to Tsukuba, Japan. In fact, for millions of technophiles, HAL has become a sort of standardized benchmark denoting the difference between what we hope for from technology, and what it is we might actually receive. In the recently revised Hal's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality , (MIT Press, $17.50), editor David Stork has picked up on this theme with gratifying lucidity. He presents 16 essays that illuminate the terrain lying between science fantasy and technological fact: Was HAL right? How realistic was HAL? And how close to the mark did Kubrick and collaborator Arthur C. Clarke come when they forecasted a supercomputer that reads lips, runs a spaceship, has reasoning, emotions, ethics, and enough intelligence for seamless man-machine interaction?
Eyestorm Jeff Koons - Getting It
douglas coupland's essay on Koons and his work. Includes pictures.
http://www.eyestorm.com/feature/ED2n_article.asp?article_id=202
Bookworm's Lair - Douglas Coupland
Click on the book to read a sample chapter. douglas coupland. born 1230-1961
http://www.bookwormslair.de/coupl_e.htm

Extractions: "What did Karen see that December night? What pictures of tomorrow could so disturb her that she would flee into a refuge of bottomless sleep? Why would she leave me? Knock knock. Who's there? It's me, Karen. No joke. No punchline c'est moi. Will you come out? Or will you let me in?" There are not many more hints on the bookcover regarding the story. But it sounded interesting enough to give a chance to this unknown book. And it was worth it. The main characters are six friends almost finished with High School in Canada. Actually there are seven friends but one of them, Jared, is already dead and appearing only as a ghost. On the evening when Karen looses her virginity she hands a letter to her friend Richard. He has to give it back to her the next morning unopened unless something mysterious happens. Then she falls into a coma for 17 years. In the letter she describes her visions of the future, which maybe she wasn't allowed to see. And she asks Richard to wait for her. In the next 17 years live goes on for the rest of the friends ... graduation, partys, jobs, drugs, alcohol etc. And Richard becomes the father of a daughter who is born by Karen during her coma.
Douglas Coupland - Bench Press Your IQ
Features excerpts from written work with various fans' perspectives. A special section includes pictures of actual places which coupland describes in his works.
http://www.squeakie.com/coupland/
Bigchalk: HomeworkCentral: Coupland, Douglas (Authors & Poets)
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Juni-worse-ill - Literatur - Douglas Coupland
Kurze Biographie ¼ber coupland und eine Beschreibung von Microserfs .
http://www.juni-worse-ill.de/literature/coupland/coupland.html

Extractions: Michael hat heute etwas Cooles gesagt. Er meinte, mit unserer Spezies geschehe derzeit etwas Bemerkenswertes und nie Dagewesenes: "Wir haben den kritischen Punkt erreicht, an dem die Summe der Erinnerung, die wir in Büchern und Datenbanken (um nur ein paar Quellen zu nennen) ausgelagert haben, sie Summe der Erinnerungen, die in all unseren biologischen Körpern zusammen erhalten sind, übersteigt. Mit anderen Worten, es befinden sich mehr Erinnerung 'da draußen' als 'in uns allen'. Wir haben den Kern unserer Existenz nach außen verlagert." "In dieser neuen Situation ist die Annahme der Existenz von 'Geschichte' zwar nicht unbedingt widerlegt, aber sie zielt ins Leere. Der Zugriff auf Erinnerungen tritt an die Stelle des geschichtlichen Wissens, mit Hilfe dessen unsere Spezies bisher ihre Vergangenheit verarbeitet hat. Erinnerungen statt Geschichte - das ist nicht weiter schlimm. Im Gegenteil, es ist phantastisch, denn es bedeutet, daß wir nicht länger dazu verdammt sind, unsere Fehler zu wiederholen; wir können uns laufend korrigieren, wie ein Dokument auf dem Bildschirm.
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Wired News: Taking On Lara Croft
In Lara's Book, douglas coupland, the author of Generation X and Microserfs, deconstructs the cult heroine of the videogame universe. By John Alderman. Wired News
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,13804,00.html

Extractions: 08:50 AM Jul. 17, 1998 PT Since his best-selling 1992 debut, Generation X , Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland has acquired a reputation for giving voice to emerging popular zeitgeists. His latest project takes him back to the digital world that he last explored in Microserfs , his book about software coders. Lara's Book , a coffee-table tome dedicated to Lara Croft, a buxom cult heroine from the popular Tomb Raider computer game series, is a time capsule of sorts. The book illustrates a point in history when videogames are the focus of attentions that range from the philosophical to the bloodthirsty. The title is a representative, if puzzling, mix of speculative essays, glossy photographs of the sneering Croft, and strategies for Tomb Raider fans to more effectively whup ass in the game. In a characteristically email-only interview with Wired News, Coupland said his interest in the game lies in Croft's virtual physicality. He has called the character a "Valentine from the future," whose body, while central to her existence, really isn't there. "This drives people nuts," he said, "but it certainly doesn't drive them away."
Coupland, Douglas
Biography douglas coupland Writer Canada Born 30 Dec 1961 douglas couplandwas born on a Canadian NATO base in BadenSollingen, western Germany.
http://www.artsworld.com/books-film/biographies/a-c/douglas-coupland.html
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Douglas Coupland: "Alle Familien Sind Verkorkst". Aus Dem Amerikanischen Von Tin
Eine Rezension des Buches von Gustav Mechlenburg.
http://www.textem.de/texte/rezensionen/familien.htm

Extractions: Textem Kolumne Rezensionen Essays Forum Email an Textem Bibelzitate auf Pappschildern Douglas Coupland nimmt in seinem neuen Roman "Alle Familien sind verkorkst" tiefe Einblicke in die menschlichen Abgründe Von Gustav Mechlenburg Douglas Coupland wird den Ruf, der Chronist der Generation X zu sein, wohl nicht mehr los. Zu bekannt wurde der kanadische Autor mit seinem Debütroman über die Orientierungslosigkeit amerikanischer Jugendlicher Anfang der 90er-Jahre. Für die individualistische Attitüde der Slacker aus "Generation X" ist er mittlerweile zu alt geworden und zu erfolgreich. Es ist deshalb nur konsequent, wenn sich Coupland in seinen jüngsten Romanen allgemeineren Fragen des modernen Subjektentwurfs zuwendet. Auch sein Schreiben hat sich verändert. Funktionierte das Soziogramm der "Generation X" vorwiegend durch die originelle Idee und neue Begrifflichkeiten wie "McJob" oder "Low-Pay" in den literarischen Diskurs, hat Coupland im Laufe der Jahre auch ein Gespür für Charaktere und Dramatik entwickelt. Doch zugleich scheint Coupland der eigentliche Anlass seines Schreibens entschwunden zu sein. Man könnte meinen, er habe die ironisch-kritischen Metakommentare zur Konsumgesellschaft aus seinem Erstlingswerk gegen einen selbstverliebten, Effekte erhaschenden Sarkasmus eingetauscht, der gar nicht mehr beabsichtigt, irgendetwas zu entlarven.
Girlfriend In A Coma / Coupland, Douglas Test Und Preisvergleich
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WORTSCHATZ - Douglas Coupland
Bietet Zitate und Ausschnitte aus verschiedenen B¼chern des Autors.
http://www.mardou.de/beat/wcoupland.htm

Extractions: werdende Kultur" Deutsch von Harald Riemann Das Kultbuch aus den USA, ausgestattet mit einem Glossar des Twentysomething-Jargons, spiegelt die GENERATION X, die zwischen 1960 und 1970 Geborenen: Nach Baby-Boomer, denen am Ende des Jahrtausends nichts als Fatalismus zu bleiben scheint, wenn sie die Welt betrachten, die ihre Eltern ihnen übergeben. Coupland zeichnet, scharf und mit oft beißender Ironie, das Bild von Menschen, die als aufgeblasene Konsumenten, von Ruhmsucht besessen, im popkultgesättigtem Strom der Mehrheit schwimmen - und er entwirft ein Gegenbild. Seine Helden sind die "Aussteiger" von heute, Bohemiens im Zeitalter der Postmoderne.
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