Douglas Coupland’s novel Generation X didn’t just name a demographic—it captured a mindset. His fiction defined the detached, drifting, hyper-aware sensibility of 1990s youth culture. Generation X was also published 34 years ago.
He gave us slackers before they were memeable, office ennui before The Office, and a sense that we were all increasingly plugged in and alienated.
He was prolific for many years, publishing thirteen novels between 1991 and 2013—six of them in his first ten years.
But it’s now been more than a decade since his last novel, Worst. Person. Ever. It was published in 2013. So… what happened?
