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Superb interview with Douglas Coupland on Wired:

A Tale of Two Couplands

There’s a rumor going around the Internet that Douglas Coupland collects meteorites. Nobody knows how it began, least of all Coupland. But the story started to circulate shortly after his first novel, Generation X, became an On the Road for the ’90s. Every effort he’s made to set the record straight has been ignored by his many fan sites. So he recently decided to purchase a few choice specimens.

I’m visiting with Coupland at his home in Vancouver, British Columbia, to discuss his novel JPod, coming out in May, when I notice a meteorite the size of a grapefruit resting on a table beside a whale vertebra. In a voice raspy from drinking late into the night before, he informs me that the meteorite was found in Argentina, and that it’s very rare. He cradles the rock in his hand. “We should all be so lucky to have people throw such good ideas our way,” he says.

Collecting meteorites isn’t the only concept Coupland has cribbed from the Web gossip about him in the past couple of years. “There’s this whole meta-Doug out there who’s no longer connected to me or even cares about me anymore,” he says. Read on here…

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