Douglas Coupland
Financial Times
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Past articles by Douglas:
Douglas Coupland’s rehab notepad
‘If you want to know what the superpower of invisibility feels like, try being a 55-year-old guy in rehab’ → Read More
Secrets of the Slush: An Interview with Editor and Author, Michael Nye
Online Writers Workshop, Online Monthly Classes taught by published authors and industry professionals and Robust Literature Magazine with Columns, Interviews, Reviews and more. → Read More
Bookshots: 'Entropy in Bloom' by Jeremy Robert Johnson
Online Writers Workshop, Online Monthly Classes taught by published authors and industry professionals and Robust Literature Magazine with Columns, Interviews, Reviews and more. → Read More
Stumbling Towards Jerusalem: Part 1
Online Writers Workshop, Online Monthly Classes taught by published authors and industry professionals and Robust Literature Magazine with Columns, Interviews, Reviews and more. → Read More
On Writing Books for Nobody
Online Writers Workshop, Online Monthly Classes taught by published authors and industry professionals and Robust Literature Magazine with Columns, Interviews, Reviews and more. → Read More
Bookshots: 'Bit Rot: Stories + Essays' by Douglas Coupland
Online Writers Workshop, Online Monthly Classes taught by published authors and industry professionals and Robust Literature Magazine with Columns, Interviews, Reviews and more. → Read More
10 Books About Fictional Films and Filmmakers
Online Writers Workshop, Online Monthly Classes taught by published authors and industry professionals and Robust Literature Magazine with Columns, Interviews, Reviews and more. → Read More
Douglas Coupland: One Stone
I was recently in Beijing and the weather was gorgeous — one of those apparently rare north Chinese days when the sky was blue and, if you squinted, you could almost pretend you were in Auckland or Sydney. Yes, you read that correctly: I compared → Read More
Some Practical Writing Advice From Douglas Coupland
Online Writers Workshop, Online Monthly Classes taught by published authors and industry professionals and Robust Literature Magazine with Columns, Interviews, Reviews and more. → Read More
Douglas Coupland: The 3rd Room
A friend of mine who works as a consultant for hotel designers says that there is only one known factor that will empirically tell you whether a hotel experience will be good or not. That factor? A recent renovation. “Given the choice of a dowdy → Read More
Douglas Coupland: Escaping the superfuture
I find myself reading books of short stories these days. Short stories don’t take as long to read as novels, and if you read a few in a row it feels just like binge-watching Netflix. I’ve also found that when it comes to reading, and if you really → Read More
Douglas Coupland: The rise and fall of the mall
On August 11 1992 I was in Bloomington, Minnesota, close to Minneapolis. I was on a book tour and it was the grand opening day of Mall of America, the biggest mall in the US. The local radio affiliate had a booth set up in front of the indoor roller → Read More
Douglas Coupland: a lot o’ Lotto
Thirty years ago I was staying over with my parents on my birthday, December 30. Around nine in the morning, I heard my dad cursing from down the hallway. On inquiry, I learnt that my mother’s Aunt Constance had phoned from Victoria on Vancouver → Read More
Douglas Coupland: The power of smell
At my gym there’s a sign saying, “This is a fragrance-free zone”. I thought about it and, yes, perfume in a gym might be kind of weird, like smelling cooking bacon when trying to fall asleep at night. And then last week a younger male gym-goer → Read More
Douglas Coupland: Tips for public speaking
The first time I ever spoke publicly was in March 1991, at a Waterstones bookstore beside Copley Square in Boston. I hadn’t given the event much thought beforehand, and then suddenly I was in the back room surrounded by cartons and paperwork and → Read More
Black Goo, the Environment, and the End of the World
Douglas Coupland looks to the past to find an answer for the impending environmental apocalypse of the extreme present. → Read More
Author Douglas Coupland on Growing Up Drug-Agnostic in a Global Pot Capital
Everyone has a drug story, even if it's about how they don't do drugs. → Read More
Author Douglas Coupland on Greece, Utopias, and the Curse of Leisure
Until recently Greeks were able to spend their days doing nothing, which was nice; now they have to spend their days with nothing to do, which is scary. → Read More
Secrets of a Chinese Router Factory
It’s hard for me to believe I’m finally about to visit a Chinese factory. → Read More
Douglas Coupland Misses His Pre-Internet Brain (Q&A)
An email chat with the author of "Generation X," who takes readers inside the mobile-electronics factories of China in his new book, "Kitten Clone." → Read More