Tag Archives: Douglas Coupland

Microserfs Up!

Posted on February 18, 2023 by awtraughber

I finally finished my re-read of Microserfs by Douglas Coupland. I read it the first time over a decade-and-a-half ago: once I read one of Coupland’s novels, I had to read them all. I re-read another Coupland novel, Eleanor Rigby, … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Time

Posted on February 14, 2022 by awtraughber

I’m about 30 pages into Chuck Klosterman’s The Nineties. Klosterman is one of my favorite non-fiction writers, especially when it comes to American pop culture. The book looks to be a 300-page dissection of what it was like to live … Continue reading →

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TV Sitcom in a Coma

Posted on March 5, 2013 by awtraughber

It’s not every day that one of your favorite books becomes a television sitcom. This, of course, is probably a good thing. When word got out that NBC was developing Nick Hornby’s About a Boy into a television show, I … Continue reading →

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Donald Miller, Douglas Coupland, and Inauguration

Posted on January 21, 2013 by awtraughber

I WAS QUITE PLEASED to see that Donald Miller had posted a blog entry about the Inauguration. I was more than pleasantly surprised when I discovered that his post spoke well of Douglas Coupland’s Life after God, a series of … Continue reading →