![]() ![]() He proceeds to let the reader know that because he was perceived to have jumped the queue in the hierarchy of freelancers who were writing for Vancouver Magazine in its heyday under Mac Parry, there are still people who hold a grudge for the speed of his ascendancy. ![]() Then I got a message on my answering machine…”Ĭoupland proceeds to write brilliantly, in a seemingly off-the-cuff style, to show how his entire success as one of the world’s best-known authors is all due to the fact that he followed through on an inclination to acquire a newfangled device called an answering machine. ![]() It was likely Ross who added the teaser atop the piece: “I was designing baby cribs and preparing for an art show. With Coupland’s permission, we hope to include his highly amusing reminiscence in his entry on the new Literary Map of B.C.Ĭoupland’s mini-memoir about his first novel first appeared in Vancouver Magazine as Genesis X. Doug Coupland (centre) and Mac Parry imitate wind turbines near Palm Springs in 1988.įormer Vancouver Magazine editor Mac Parry has passed along Coupland’s overview of the famous book’s origins. ![]()
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