I first discovered Douglas Coupland when I was a teenager in the Hunterdon County Library. I was browsing listlessly through the fiction and the title of one of his books caught my eye. It was Shampoo Planet. After reading it I was hooked and immediately read Generation X, Microserfs, Life After God, and Polaroids From the Dead. My obsession kind of drew to a close as I left my adolescence. I read some of his other books during my adult life and did enjoy them. His books are intelligent and humorous views of modern society. I wasn’t really aware that Doug has also made films and visual art, but it doesn’t surprise me.
I was delighted when I discovered his youtube channel that has shorts advertising his new book The Gum Thief. There are 9 shorts all together. 2 of them describe characters in the book and the third describes one of the characters’ attempt to write a book. They are all very entertaining and it seems to me like a brilliant way to promote a work of fiction. This is one of my favorites:
Look at the channel >here< .
