2009 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize award finalist certificate
- RBSC-ARC-1643-185-28
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- November-December 2009
2009 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize award finalist certificate
A copy of New York Times Book Review
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).
Accordion file folder containing research for City of Glass
Advanced preview copy of Life After God
Annotated copy of 1, 000 Years (Life After God)
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).
Includes an author trading card for Douglas Coupland (#228) from The Booksmith in San Francisco. The back of the card advertises a reading by Coupland taking place at 7pm on Friday March 13th.
Contains a copy (2/20) of Canada Goose, a self-published novella by Coupland.
Correspondence with Anasi Press regarding Player One
Correspondence with Janklow & Nesbit Associates
Correspondence with publishers regarding Player One
Correspondence with ReganBooks editor
Coupland and McCarthy event invitation in Toronto
Contains a print-out of an event invitation hosted by Knopf Canada: "A conversation between Tom McCarthy and Doug Coupland about books, art and the meaning of it all", held October 30th, 2010 at the Rooster Cafe in Toronto.
David Weir's comp tickets to the 2010 Massey Lectures
Contains two tickets to the 2010 Massey Lecture at Convocation Hall (University of Toronto), October 29, 2010, at which Coupland was reading Player One.
Essay on Bach's Goldberg Variations for Penguin Music Classics
Essays published in The New Republic
Finalist certificate for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for The Gum Thief
Finalist plaque for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for The Gum Thief
Finalist's congratulation letter from Stephen Leacock Association
Contains a letter from Judith Rapson (Award Committee, Chair) of the Stephen Leacock Association congratulating Coupland for being a finalist for the 2007 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, for his novel JPod. Ultimately, Coupland did not win the award that year (Stuart McLean did).
Foreign language photocopies of magazine and newspaper reviews of Girlfriend in a Coma
Generation A with editor comments
"Generation X [bar team]" t-shirt
Generation X hardcover book jacket
German-language article about Coupland
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.
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.
"God Hates Japan" with missing pages
Handwritten notes about Player One
Handwritten notes for Player One
Images of Coupland on set of JPod
Invitation card to a Life After God launch event in Washington, DC
Janklow & Nesbit Associates card
Japanese edition of Life After God
jPod casting sheet for 'Freedom'
JPod submission draft, February 22, 2005
Includes some annotations throughout and 2 pages of commentary (first page of commentary appears to be missing) from "Gillian," most likely an editor at the publishing house.
jPod TV show map and directions