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
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.
Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.
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.