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  • 1987-2010 (Creation)

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5.98 m of textual documents
0.5 meters of graphic material
ca. 100 photographs

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Series consists of records relating primarily to Coupland’s 21 published literary works (14 fiction and 7 non-fiction). Records in this series include:

  • Annotated handwritten and typed drafts of major works
  • Correspondence with publishers
  • Cover mock-ups
  • Pre-draft conceptual writings
  • Research notes and
  • Photographs and graphic material related to Coupland’s pictorial non-fiction books
  • Publicity material relating to books including stickers, tshirts and posters

Series includes records related to the following projects:

Fiction

  • Player One (2010)
  • Generation A (2009)
  • Extinction Event stylebook (Extinction Event is a 2009 television series in which Coupland has been involved).
  • The Gum Thief (2007)
  • JPod (2006)
  • Eleanor Rigby (2004)
  • Hey Nostradamus! (2003)
  • All Families are Psychotic (2001)
  • God Hates Japan (2001)
  • 2080 Stylebook (a unique hand-book about the future created by Coupland that later influenced his other pictorial works such as Souvenir of Canada, ca. 2000)
  • Miss Wyoming (1999)
  • Girlfriend in a Coma (1997)
  • Microserfs (1995)
  • Life After God (1993)
  • Canada Goose (self-published novella, 1993)
  • Shampoo Planet (1992)
  • Generation X (1991)
  • 1991 (unpublished novel written ca. 1982)

Non-Fiction

  • Extraordinary Canadians: Marshall McLuhan (2009)
  • Terry-The Life of Canadian Terry Fox (2005)
  • Souvenir of Canada 2 (2004)
  • School Spirit (2002)
  • Souvenir of Canada (2002)
  • City of Glass (2000)
  • Polaroids from the Dead (1996)

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