

"Politically right now, gay and Canadian is about as exciting as it gets. It explores new ways of storytelling in a digital world. Generation X captures the mood and sentiment of a particular moment in time with its anxieties of nuclear apocalypse and doomed yuppie existence.

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Born on a NATO base in Germany, his family relocated to Vancouver when Coupland was four years old.
