A New Band A Day! (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
"Unless a person passes through some Great Experience, that person's life will have been for naught. Such an experience doesn't have to be explosive or murderous... often a quiet life of loneliness can be its own Great Experience." - Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma This rule is applicable to bands too. There are legions of bands who were good enough to make it, but for...
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The Original of Laura, Vladimir Nabokov’s final work, has just been released. To coincide with its publication, Vintage has commissioned new cover designs for the 21 Nabokov backlist titles to which it owns rights. Of course, publishers do this kind of repackaging all the time. (HarperCollins Canada recently did likewise for a couple of Douglas Coupland [...]
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... Alice Munro's Too Much Happiness, which also finished as a runner-up for the GG prize, as well as Douglas Coupland's Generation A, Andrew Steinmetz's Eva's Threepenny Theatre and Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood's translation of Nicole Brossard's Fences in Breathing. The finalists each received $2,500."In this alarmingly confident and transporting debut novel, Lyon offers us that rarest...
Popped Culture (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... on Popped Culture... There's No Such Thing As Too Much Coffee Why Starbucks Won't Be Contacting Douglas Coupland Anymore... Elements of Awesome
