Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland OC OBCis a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized terms such as "McJob" and "Generation X". He has published thirteen novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. A specific feature of Coupland's novels...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 December 1961
CountryCanada
Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air. And God's name will have ended up being 'Google,' because that's the way it worked out. It could have worked out that God's name ended up being 'Yahoo,' of course, but they lost out.
Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
The whole point of Gen X was, and continues to be, a negation of being forced into Baby Boomerdom against one's will.
I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow.