41. Freitag 21. Januar 2000: Alle Auf Den Ausgangspunkt - Douglas Coupland Rettet Vo Eine Rezension von Girlfriend in a Coma . http://www.freitag.de/2000/04/00041601.htm

21. Januar 2000 Wilhelm Pauli Alle auf den Ausgangspunkt Start Service Recherche MC PHILOSOPHIE Douglas Coupland rettet vorerst die Welt Der Rezensent hat in der Vergangenheit Douglas Coupland verteidigt wo er konnte. Schon 1992, als der junge Kanadier mit Generation X Generation Y Dann hat er 1995 mit Life after God Dann verlor der Rezensent Coupland etwas aus dem Auge, griff eines Tages zu Mikrosklaven Bis hierher hatte Coupland immer nur eine Handvoll Seelen gerettet. In seinem neuen Buch, Girlfriend in a Coma Der Rezensent ist jetzt maulig. Douglas Coupland: Girlfriend in a Coma . Roman, Verlag Hoffman und Campe, Hamburg 1999, 351 S., 39,90 DM mail an die Redaktion nach oben Impressum Freitag im Internet Abonnement Internet-Aktion

42. Douglas Coupland’s Generation X: An Alternative Voice An essay about the author's novel. http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/imperial/canada/coupland.htm

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture : an alternative voice This page last revised 18 May 1998 Contemporary Literary Criticism , Vol. 39, 29). The subsequent success of Generation X both in America and Europe, indicate that the experiences Coupland records are global, appealing to a wide audience who share his fears and expectations. While the debate about the lack of a distinctive Canadian voice continues, the critical reaction to Generation X Globe and Mail Generation X , or that Books in Canada Books in Canada , Vol. 21, 44-6). Typical of this critical reaction, Laurel Boone in a Books in Canada review of Generation X Generation X Books in Canada . Vol. 20, 50-1). (Coupland, Douglas. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture The reason Coupland was overlooked may be due to the fact that his novel was viewed as the antithesis of conventional Canadian writing. While there is a Canadian dimension to Generation X Generation X , 86), the characters create their own rules and attempt to live by them. Forging their own identities they recall their earlier existences, realizing that many within the collective mass routinely and monotonously continue to live similar lives, but due to the nature of society are powerless to escape: ...the realization that the smiles that they wear in their daily lives are the same as the smiles worn by people who have been good-naturedly fleeced, but fleeced nonethelessand who are unable because of social convention to show their anger (

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44. Douglas Coupland douglas coupland, Erfinder der Generation X, vermarktet sich als Guru f¼r Geist, Seele und K¶rper. Bericht von Tom Schimmeck. http://home.t-online.de/home/tschimmeck/coupland.htm

Tom Schimmecks Archiv Leitseite Frisches Deutschland Europa ... Kontakt Oh! Gott! von Tom Schimmeck D Und hier steht der Coupland aus Fleisch und Blut. Ganz steif. Ganz durchschnittlich. Ein harmloser amerikanischer Collegeboy, schon etwas gealtert, mit kurzem Haar, Pulli, Blue Jeans, Reeboks. Welcher mag der echte sein?

45. DOUGLAS COUPLAND: MICROSERFS Not really, says novelist douglas coupland, but remember, you can always leave.By HEATHER MALLICK Toronto Sun MICROSERFS douglas coupland (HarperCollins) http://www.chl.ca/JamBooksReviewsM/microserfs_coupland.html

Inside CANOE.CA SLAM! Sports Jam! Showbiz AllPop CNEWS Webfin Money C-Health Lifewise AUTONET.CA Newsstand Travel Search eBay.ca Get away today 411 online Free E-Mail Shop.canoe.ca CareerConnection Classified Extra Match Contact Obituaries Today Restaurants Hotels Weather Horoscopes Lotteries Crossword Scoreboard News Ticker Biz Ticker Sports Ticker TV Listings Movie Listings CLIVE Concerts Mutual Funds Stocks Feedback Index July 16, 1995 More Showbiz headlines Microsoft's Techno-Geeks break free Can you work at Microsoft and remain human? Not really, says novelist Douglas Coupland, but remember, you can always leave By HEATHER MALLICK Toronto Sun MICROSERFS Douglas Coupland (HarperCollins) "You never heard about people 'not having lives' until about five years ago, just when all of the '80s technologies really penetrated our lives," says a techno-geek in Douglas Coupland's wonderful new novel, Microserfs. He lists them: "VCRs tape rentals PCs modems answering machines touch tone dialling cellular phones cordless phones call screening phone cards ATMs fax machines Federal Express bar coding cable TV satellite TV CDs calculators of almost other-worldly power that are so cheap that they practically come free with a tank of gas" Each of these objects added pleasure and/or convenience to lives that had previously only been enriched by relationships and television, says Coupland in one of those debatable remarks that fill his novel. I mean, life hasn't changed intrinsically since 1976. It's just faster and better.

46. Douglas Coupland Bio Contains a blurb about the author and his short story, Fire at the Ativan Factory . English/Spanish/Catalan http://www.barcelonareview.com/bio/dc_b07.htm

Douglas Coupland Douglas Coupland has an official website and quite a few fan-based ones; S. Chung's The Coupland File , updated regularly, is well worth a visit. Book ordering Internet Bookshop Amazon Canada's Internet Bookstore Douglas Coupland was born a Canadian citizen on 30 December, 1961 on a NATO base in Baden-Sollingen, Germany. Shortly afterwards he moved to Vancouver, where he still lives. Coupland's books to date include Generation X, Shampoo Planet, Microserfs, Poloroids From The Dead and Girlfriend in a Coma . They have been translated into twenty-two languages. Home Fire at the Ativan Factory Douglas Coupland nació como ciudadano canadiense el 30 de diciembre de 1961 en una base de la OTAN en Baden-Sollingen, Alemania. Poco después se trasladó a Vancouber, donde todavía vive. Hasta este momento ha publicado las novelas Generación X El planeta Champú Microsiervos La vida después de Dios (todas publicadas por Ediciones B) y Girlfriend in a Coma.

47. INTERVIEW WITH DOUGLAS COUPLAND An interview by Alexander Laurence from 1994. http://www.altx.com/interviews/douglas.coupland.html

Interview with Douglas Coupland by Alexander Laurence (c) 1994 Douglas Coupland is a lucid Canadian writer who loves nature. He reminded me of that fact. "Whenever I smoked pot in high school it was always around nature." He is the author of three books: Generation X, Shampoo Planet, and most recently, Life After God. His new book of short stories and drawings describes the mental framework of someone who grew up in a secular environment. Coupland is a frequent contributor for The New Republic, The New York Times, and Wired. For Wired he recently wrote "Microserfs" which was about Bill Gates and the Microsoft company. Coupland was born on December 30, 1961 in a NATO base in West Germany. He now lives in Vancouver, where he grew up. He claims that the most important images in his life were Marcia Brady, The Poseidon Adventure, and Patty Hearst. His story, "Patty Hearst," recalls the days of her captivity in a Western Addition room in San Francisco. One of the Baudrillard-like comments by Coupland in his new book explores his new view of memory: "I believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup." Coupland, as a writer, has always been short on character and psychology, and big on ideas and conceptual things. Many excerpts from his new book, can be seen on MTV. He may be one of the few contemporary writers who is guilty of too much thinking.

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49. Douglas Coupland/Life After God Life after Life after God . Bericht ¼ber das neue Buch von douglas coupland. http://www.hinternet.de/buch/coup4.htm

Life after LIFE AFTER GOD Wochenlang lief im amerikanischen MTV die Hype-Maschinerie auf vollen Touren und promotete Douglas Couplands Neuerscheinung wo es nur ging: Spoken-Word-Spots wurden gesendet, in denen Coupland kurze Episoden aus Life After God Life After God "Ich war der erste in Seattle, der eine Ausgabe von 'Life After God' in die Hände bekam, weil ich die netten Leute vom University Bookstore so lange nervte, bis ich das erste Exemplar aus der ersten Kiste kriegte, die sie öffneten (wie sie mir versicherten). Ich war so aufgedreht, daß mich meine Freunde wieder runterholen mußten." Life After God zu ergattern. "Cool," dachte ich mir, "du bist in den Staaten, noch dazu in Manhattan und hältst ein neues Buch von Douglas Coupland in den Händen; war das ein kosmischer Zufall oder Fügung?" Wie dem auch sei - jedenfalls hielt ich es in der Hand; ein schönes, kleines, schwarzes Buch mit Federzeichnungen des Meisters auf jeder zweiten Seite, das in Format und Einband (ohne Cover) einem Gebetbuch glich. Muß ich erwähnen, daß ich darauf geierte, sofort mit dem Lesen anzufangen? Doch ein solches Buch verlangt einen angemessenen Rahmen. Also stopfte ich es in meinen Daypack und machte mich auf den Weg. "Ich fuhr dich gerade hoch nach Prince George zu deinem Großvater, dem saufenden Golfspieler."

50. The Onion A.V. Club | Douglas Coupland Joshua Klein interviews the author of Generation X on the generation he helped name, Girlfriend In A Coma , and the writing process. http://www.theavclub.com/avclub3314/avfeature3314.html

features cinema music video ... justify April 16, 1998 Volume 33 Issue 14 By Joshua Klein If he had never published another book after 1992's Generation X , Douglas Coupland would forever be part of history: By coining that ubiquitous term, he was among the first to give that demographic a voice. But while marketing departments worldwide never made it past the title, Coupland's writing continues: He has written six books, including Shampoo Planet and Microserfs , in seven years; his latest novel, Girlfriend In A Coma , was conceived after a personal breakdown following an ill-fated European book tour. Coupland recently spoke to The Onion from his hotel room in St. Louis, expounding upon writing, TV, Karen Ann Quinlan, and starting life anew. The Onion: You still live in Vancouver, right? Douglas Coupland: Oh, yeah. I probably always will. O: Is it as beautiful as everyone says? DC: You know what? It probably is. You're catching me at a homesick moment, here. O: After your last book tour, you were depressed... DC: That's putting it mildly.

51. Die Zeit Der kanadische Schriftsteller douglas coupland erfand Anfang der neunzigerJahre den Namen f¼r eine Generation unpolitischer Langweiler Generation X . Sein neuer Roman heiŸt Miss Wyoming und spielt im BHollywood der Halbprominenten. Bericht ¼ber den Autor auf zeit.de. http://www.zeit.de/2001/09/Leben/200109_traum_coupland.html

Aktualisiert am Donnerstag, 1. März 2001 ../inhalt Ich habe einen Traum Der kanadische Schriftsteller Douglas Coupland, 39, erfand Anfang der neunzigerJahre den Namen für eine Generation unpolitischer Langweiler: »Generation X«. Sein neuer Roman heißt »Miss Wyoming« und spielt im B-Hollywood der Halbprominenten. Das Buch erscheint im März auf Deutsch. In der letzten März-Woche wird Coupland eine Lesereise durch Deutschland machen. Ab 21. März sind im Westwerk in Hamburg einige seiner Collagen zu sehen - Coupland hat eigentlich Bildhauerei und Design studiert Von Heike Faller (Aufzeichnung) »Ich bin an einem Zaun aufgewachsen. Dahinter begann die Wildnis, die bis zum Nordpol reichte. Das ist keine Metapher« Als meine Nichte vor zweieinhalb Jahren geboren wurde, fehlte ihr die linke Hand. Unsere Familie lebt an der Nordküste von Vancouver, wo es eine statistische Häufung von Missbildungen bei Neugeborenen - deformierte Hände und Arme - gibt. Diese Erhöhung ist deutlich und kaum zu bestreiten. Die Behörden fanden sie trotzdem nicht erheblich genug, um eine Untersuchung einzuleiten. Der Grund für die Missbildungen ist bis heute ungeklärt. Nach der Geburt meiner Nichte begann für meine Familie eine besondere Form der Trauer: Wir trauerten um eine Hand, von der wir neun Monate lang geglaubt hatten, dass es sie gibt. Wir konnten nicht anders, als daran zu denken, wie grausam Menschen sein können, und uns den Spott und die Spitznamen vorzustellen, die sie ihr Leben lang würde aushalten müssen. Wir überlegten uns, was sie zu ihrer Highschool-Abschlussfeier tragen würde. Ein langärmliges Kleid? Und wenn die anderen Mädchen schulterfreie Kleider tragen würden? Es klingt vielleicht oberflächlich, aber eigentlich ging es darum, sich damit abzufinden, dass das Leben für dieses kleine Wesen nie so sein würde, wie für andere Mädchen. Es ist ein Kreislauf aus Sorge und Angst. Man fängt an, eifersüchtig zu werden auf die anderen Kinder, die mit beiden Händen auf die Welt kommen - und fühlt sich schrecklich, dass man so etwas überhaupt denkt.

52. INTERVIEW WITH DOUGLAS COUPLAND Interview with douglas coupland. by Alexander Laurence (c) 1994. douglas couplandis a lucid Canadian writer who loves nature. He reminded me of that fact. http://www.altx.com/int2/douglas.coupland.html

Interview with Douglas Coupland by Alexander Laurence (c) 1994 Douglas Coupland is a lucid Canadian writer who loves nature. He reminded me of that fact. "Whenever I smoked pot in high school it was always around nature." He is the author of three books: Generation X, Shampoo Planet, and most recently, Life After God. His new book of short stories and drawings describes the mental framework of someone who grew up in a secular environment. Coupland is a frequent contributor for The New Republic, The New York Times, and Wired. For Wired he recently wrote "Microserfs" which was about Bill Gates and the Microsoft company. Coupland was born on December 30, 1961 in a NATO base in West Germany. He now lives in Vancouver, where he grew up. He claims that the most important images in his life were Marcia Brady, The Poseidon Adventure, and Patty Hearst. His story, "Patty Hearst," recalls the days of her captivity in a Western Addition room in San Francisco. One of the Baudrillard-like comments by Coupland in his new book explores his new view of memory: "I believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup." Coupland, as a writer, has always been short on character and psychology, and big on ideas and conceptual things. Many excerpts from his new book, can be seen on MTV. He may be one of the few contemporary writers who is guilty of too much thinking.

53. Home Page - ZDNet Lisa M. Bowman interviews the author about the book Lara's Story Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Phenomenon . http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_smgraph_display/0,3441,2117147,00.html

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54. Douglas Coupland - Alle Familien Sind Verkorkst - Perlentaucher.de Translate this page SeitenanfangZum Seitenanfang, Zum Autor coupland, douglas douglas couplandwurde 1961 auf einem kanadischen Nato-Stützpunkt in Deutschland geboren. http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/11860.html

(Anzeige) Vier Fragen zum Krieg 1. Frage: Ist die Uno am Ende? Zum [ Verlag ] Douglas Coupland "Alle Familien sind verkorkst" Roman Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3455011764 Gebunden, 336 Seiten, 19,90 EUR Buch bestellen bei Amazon [ Klappentext ] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung vom 05.11.2002 Literaturbeilage Die Tageszeitung vom 09.10.2002 Literaturbeilage Zum Seitenanfang Zum Autor Coupland, Douglas Home Aktuell Magazin ... Mail an die Redaktion

55. Der Zauber Der Banalität Zehn Jahre nach Generation X douglas coupland schlieŸt Frieden mit der Konsumindustrie. Bericht auf welt.de. http://www.welt.de/daten/2001/04/07/0407lp245731.htx

DIE WELT Montag, 24. März 2003 Berlin, 08:57 Uhr WELT AM SONNTAG TAGESINHALT POLITIK WIRTSCHAFT ... WETTER Der Zauber der Banalität Zehn Jahre nach "Generation X": Douglas Coupland schließt Frieden mit der Konsumindustrie Von Jochen Förster Randy ist dick, glatzköpfig und allein. Er jobbt als Dachdecker in einem Kaff in Pennsylvania und rächt sich an der Welt, indem er Internet-Klatsch verbreitet - "Keanu Reeves von Fleischmikroben befallen" oder "Jennifer Aniston: Brustwarzenreizung" zum Beispiel. Bis eines Abends die TV-Serienheldin Susan Colgate hochschwanger vor seiner Tür steht und Augenblicke später auf seinem Wohnzimmerboden einen Jungen zur Welt bringt. Offiziell ist sie seit neun Monaten tot, inoffiziell ist sie untergetaucht. Randy kündigt anderntags seinen Job, bestellt eine Lkw-Ladung Babymöbel, ändert seinen Nachnamen, besorgt gefälschte Kennzeichen für Susans Auto und strotzt auf einmal vor Lebensfreude. Warum? "Randy hatte diese eine fantastische Chance bekommen, sich selbst neu zu erfinden, und die würde er nicht vermasseln". In , dem neuen, fünften Roman des Kanadiers Douglas Coupland, spielt Randy nur eine Nebenrolle; seine Funktion besteht vor allem darin, des Autors selbsterfinderisches Credo zu kommunizieren. Coupland (39) gilt seit seinem Erstling "Generation X" 1991 als literarische Stimme sozial derangierter US-Twentysomethings. In immer neuen Variationen beschreibt er seitdem den Terror der Konsumindustrie - außen hübsch, innen hohl und insgesamt abgründig, da sie Menschen zu Dingen degradiere. Zum Glück weiß der Autor einen Ausweg: "Sich immer wieder neu erfinden. Am besten jedes Jahr einmal. Glauben Sie mir: Das hilft."

56. Coupland, Douglas - Miss Wyoming [review By Funprox.com] coupland, douglas Miss Wyoming. reviewed by HD date of review 23-1-2003. I findthe books of the American writer douglas coupland always a pleasure to read. http://www.funprox.com/books/book.asp?show=10

57. Wired A Couple Of Hyped Guys Sitting Around John Battelle interviews douglas coupland and director Richard Linklater and discusses celebrity, technology, and solitude as the ultimate radical act. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.12/linklater.html

SEARCH: Wired Magazine Wired News Webmonkey Animation Express HotWired Archives The Web -> HotBot Issue 2.12 - Dec 1994 Page 1 of 5 next Printing? Use this version A Couple of Hyped Guys Sitting Around Talking Two icons of a mediated generation discuss celebrity, technology, and solitude as the ultimate radical act. By John Battelle Since the almost concurrent 1991 releases of their generationally defining works, Slacker and Generation X, director Richard Linklater and author Douglas Coupland have followed roughly similar career cycles. Rich's Dazed and Confused and Doug's Shampoo Planet and Life after God engendered little of the marketing feeding frenzy of their predecessors, but neither Rich nor Doug could entirely escape being influenced by it. Their upcoming works - Doug's novel, based on "Microserfs" (which first appeared in these pages last January), and Rich's film, Before Sunrise, about two strangers who meet while traveling in Europe - will both début next year. Doug and Rich seem so numb to the hype around their generational voices that discussing even the deconstruction of that myth is taxing for them. If others glom onto their thoughts, they say, so be it. Fine. Hollywood and New York, the film and publishing worlds, wooed them both after their first works came out, and while each had the chance to sport Armani suits and live in the land of fabulous parties, neither bit. Doug stayed in Vancouver; Rich stuck to Austin. Doug never sold his books to Hollywood, and Rich has yet to direct a Terminator spinoff.

58. Jungle World 12/2001 douglas coupland hat weder 57 Katzen noch Zeitungsberge in seiner Wohnung, aber ein Kulturmessie ist er schon. Frank Sch¤fer befragte den Autor zu dessen neuem Roman Miss Wyoming . http://www.nadir.org/nadir/periodika/jungle_world/_2001/12/28a.htm

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59. CBC 4 Kids: Douglas Coupland The term Generation X comes from the title of a book by Canadian authordouglas coupland. douglas Germany. The Lab. douglas coupland. http://www.cbc4kids.cbc.ca/general/words/author-of-the-month/199902/coupland.htm

Douglas Coupland 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. Coupland’s 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.

60. Douglas Coupland Discussion Shampoo Planet by coupland, douglas Released 05/1993. All FamiliesAre Psychotic by coupland, douglas Released 09/2002. Microserfs http://www.gnooks.com/discussion/douglas coupland.html

gnod web music books ... movies Search the Net Microserfs by Coupland, Douglas Released 06/1996 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Coupland, Douglas Released 10/1992 All Families Are Psychotic by Coupland, Douglas Released 09/2002 Hey Nostradamus by Coupland, Douglas Released 07/2003 Slacker by Linklater, Richard Released 08/1992 Girlfriend in a Coma by Coupland, Douglas Released 03/1999 Life After God by Coupland, Douglas Released 10/1997 City of Glass: Douglas Coupland's Vancouver by Coupland, Douglas Released 04/2003 Pierre Huyghe: Encounters by Huyghe, Pierre Released 01/2003 Miss Wyoming (Vintage Contemporaries) by Coupland, Douglas Released 01/2001 Girlfriend in a Coma by Coupland, Douglas Released 02/1998 Life After God by Coupland, Douglas Released 03/1994 Shampoo Planet by Coupland, Douglas Released 05/1993 Girlfriend in a Coma by audible.com Released / Polaroids from the Dead by audible.com Released / Discussion: douglas coupland Douglas Coupland's writing has meant more to me than any other writers'. I won't even lend his books to everyone; there's a screening process involved. His particular combination of social awareness, beautiful poetry as prose, and impressions of existence as an outcast are reserved solely for the like-natured. Read him! If you don't like what you read, don't tell anyone, as it surely reflects poorly on you. Because of what you wrote I will be popping down the library to get one of D Coupland's books. It's good to see someone with passion for books like me.

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