Among the writers Bilton teaches in his Contemporary American Fiction class are Cormac McCarthy, Douglas Coupland, Paul Auster, Junot Diaz, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Jennifer Egan.
The title of the song refers to Douglas Coupland's novel Shampoo Planet, wherein the main character, Tyler Johnson, says: "I am writing a list of tragic character flaws on my dollar bills with a felt pen. I am thinking of the people in my universe and distilling for each of these people the one flaw in their character that will be their downfall — the flaw that will be their undoing. What I write are not sins; I write tragedies."
Raised By Swans' song 'Violet Light' is featured in Douglas Coupland's film Everything's Gone Green.
Storefronts face a network of private internal streets, and the centre layout is centred around a square which includes interpretive historical plaques and commissioned art by Douglas Coupland.
An early printed example of a weighted list of English keywords was the "subconscious files" in Douglas Coupland's Microserfs (1995).
Douglas MacArthur | Douglas | Douglas DC-3 | Douglas Adams | Michael Douglas | Douglas Fairbanks | Douglas Bader | McDonnell Douglas | Kirk Douglas | William O. Douglas | Alec Douglas-Home | Douglas C-47 Skytrain | Lord Alfred Douglas | Douglas Mawson | Douglas Aircraft Company | Douglas Niles | Douglas, Isle of Man | Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | Douglas DC-6 | Douglas Hofstadter | Paul Douglas | Douglas Hurd | Douglas County | Mike Douglas | Jerry Douglas | Douglas fir | Douglas Coupland | Tommy Douglas | Roger Douglas |
Douglas Coupland's 2003 novel Hey Nostradamus! begins at a fictional Delbrook Senior Secondary in 1988 about a Columbine-like massacre at the school, the latter took place April 1999 in Jefferson County, Colorado.
The ninth volume in the Solution series will appear 2013: Love (edited by Ingo Niermann, contributions by Douglas Coupland, Eva Illouz, Ben Marcus, Beatriz Preciado, Etel Adnan, Momus, David Pearce, and others).
McJob – A low-paying job in which one serves as an interchangeable cog in a corporate machine; originally appearing in an article in The Washington Post in 1986 and later popularised by Douglas Coupland's novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.
They have published work by some of the country's most distinguished and notable authors, including Margaret Atwood, Farley Mowat, Yann Martel, Mordecai Richler, Douglas Coupland, and Michael Ondaatje.
In 2009 a panel of representatives, including Sarah McLachlan of House of Anansi Press, John Fraser of Massey College and Ideas executive producer Bernie Lucht, selected Douglas Coupland to deliver the 2010 Massey Lectures.
Forbes also wrote the made for TV movie Booky's Crush in 2009, based on the Booky novels by Bernice Thurman Hunter, and Girlfriend in a Coma based on Douglas Coupland's novel.