Author Douglas Coupland talks with Wired about his new book, and how he became, much to his surprise, a character in the book and developed an internet persona with its own life and interesting hobbies. So what do you do if the internet version of you has more interesting hobbies than you do? Pick them up, of course!
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.
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“We should all be so lucky to have people throw such good ideas our way,” he says.