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Douglas Coupland - jPod Reading
May 23rd; 7pm (doors 6:30pm)
Walter Hall, UofT Faculty of Music, 80 Queen’s Park Crescent (just south of the ROM, behind the planetarium) TORONTO

Douglas Coupland - jPod (Random House Canada)
See Douglas Coupland in the exclusive Toronto event for his newest novel, jPodPresented by Pages Books & Magazines, Random House Canada, and NOW Magazine


tickets $5 @ Pages Books & Magazines - on sale now! (no holds, no phone orders)NOTE: THIS EVENT IS MAY 23RD, NOT MAY 9TH, AS PUBLISHED IN NOW
"How far can you push words until they become something new that you maybe weren't expecting before?" - Douglas CouplandThis Is Not A Reading Series, Random House Canada and NOW Magazine invite you to join Douglas Coupland at the exclusive Toronto event for his new novel jPod. Douglas Coupland will give a reading from jPod and talk about the pop cultural influences behind this new novel, which has been described as Microserfs for the age of Google. Copies of jPod (and other Coupland titles) will be on sale at this event and Douglas Coupland would be delighted to sign one for you.
“I slunk into the BoardX meeting where Steve, Gord-O, and staff from the loftiest perches of the food chain were still trying to nail the essence of Jeff the Charismatic Turtle. Prototype turtle sketches were pinned onto a massive cork wall, all of them goofy and teensploitational: sunglasses, baggy pants and (dear God) a terry-cloth sweatband.” -from jPodjPod (Random House Canada): A lethal joyride into today’s new breed of technogeeks, jPod updates Microserfs for the age of Google.Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose names start with J are bureaucratically marooned in jPod. jPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive Vancouver game design company.The six workers daily confront the forces that define our era: global piracy, boneheaded marketing staff, people smuggling, the rise of China, marijuana grow ops, Jeff Probst, and the ashes of the 1990s financial tech dream. jPod’s universe is amoral and shameless. The characters are products of their era even as they’re creating it.Everybody in Ethan’s life inhabits a moral grey zone. Nobody is exempt, not even his seemingly straight-laced parents or Coupland himself, as readers will see.Full of word games, visual jokes and sideways jabs, this book throws a sharp, pointed lawn dart into the heart of contemporary life. jPod is Douglas Coupland at the top of his game.Douglas Coupland was born on a NATO base in Germany in 1961. He is the author of Eleanor Rigby, Hey Nostradamus!, All Families Are Psychotic, Microserfs and Generation X, among others. He is also a visual artist and sculptor, furniture designer and screenwriter, as well as the author of Souvenir of Canada and its sequel, Souvenir of Canada 2. His most recent book is Terry, the story of Terry Fox. He lives and works in Vancouver. -->