Handwritten excerpt from The Gum Thief
- RBSC-ARC-1643-177-09
- [ca. 2007]
Handwritten excerpt from The Gum Thief
Handwritten notes for Player One
Player One Massey Lectures flyer
Correspondence with Anasi Press regarding Player One
Miss Wyoming advance preview booklet
"Why is Brad Smirking? Because he's appearing in: VISTA" t-shirt
Japanese edition of Life After God
Essays published in The New Republic
The Gum Thief handbills signed by Coupland
Finalist certificate for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for The Gum Thief
A press clipping sent to Coupland's parents
Contains a brief letter sent to Coupland's parents, accompanying a clipping in which Coupland's novel is referenced (Pinkerton, James P. "Economy Bites the Edge Off Generation X" Los Angeles Times, February 24, 1994, B19).
Letter and clipping sent to Coupland's parents
Contains a brief letter sent to "Dr. and Mrs. D.C.T Coupland" that includes a press clipping about Coupland's Generation X (Nickle, David. "Never mind Generation X, what about the Y kids?" North York Mirror, July 18, 1992, p. 5).
Foreign language photocopies of magazine and newspaper reviews of Girlfriend in a Coma
Press clippings about Generation X and Marshall McCluhan
Includes four clippings from: The Vancouver Sun (March 18, 2010) Il Messaggero (Italian) (January 22, 2010) The Toronto Star (March 8, 2010) The Ottawa Xpress (April 15-21, 2010)
Globe Review article on filming JPod, 2007
Contains a copy of the Globe and Mail Review section (Section R), with an article by John Doyle on jPod:
Doyle, J (Friday June 29, 2007). "Filming jPod: Weird for sure, but time will tell if it's funny," Globe and Mail, R1.
Newspaper clippings and magazine articles
Contains clippings that either review Coupland's work, or contain an article by him, or which make reference to either his work or himself.
Press clippings and magazine articles
Contains a receipt for Coupland's $1000 author's fee for his reading from Generation A at Wordfest (October 17, 2009, Eric Harvie Theatre, Banff Centre), where Coupland was the 2009 Banff Distinguished Author.
Style sheet, wordlist and character list for The Gum Thief
Glove Pond is a novella that appears in installments throughout Coupland's novel The Gum Thief, ostensibly written by one of the novel's protagonists, Roger Thorpe. When the Gum Thief was published in September 2007, a special boxed edition was also released which included a separate hardback copy of the Glove Pond novella, including a pull-quote written by Douglas Coupland on the novella's jacket.
This file contains a colour laser print on paper of the Glove Pond jacket.
2009 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize award finalist certificate
Generation X hardcover book jacket
Contains a copy (2/20) of Canada Goose, a self-published novella by Coupland.
Audiobook of Polaroids from the Dead
Contains an audiobook of selections from Polaroids from the Dead, read by the author (Harper Audio, 1996, approx 90mins).
Accordion file folder containing research for City of Glass
German-language article about Coupland
Two clippings related to the libel suit following Evelyn Lau's publication of "Me and W.P."
Contains two clippings related to the libel suit started by author W.P. Kinsella after the 1997 publication of an article entitled "Me and W.P" by Evelyn Lau, a former lover and fellow writer. Coupland, who guest-edited the issue of Vancouver Magazine in which the article appears, was also named as a defendant in the suit.
Includes page A11 from the Globe and Mail Arts section (Wednesday, March 4, 1998), and a copy of BC Frank Magazine (Issue 268, March 25, 1998) in which W.P. Kinsella and Evelyn Lau appear on the cover.
Literary Review of Canada featuring Coupland
Contains several press clippings from the UK sent to Coupland from Janklow & Nesbit Associates, Literary Agents.
Vancouver Sun article about Coupland
Vancouver Magazine Power 50 list congratulates Douglas Coupland