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Apr 13/15 – Mr. Coupland, I too am sick of bubbles

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Kevin Muir
Apr 13, 2015
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Although he didn’t coin the term Generation X, Douglas Coupland was the Canadian author that popularized its use for describing the group of people born between 1961 and 1981. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture was his debut novel that cemented the term into the English language, along with other popular slang like “McJob”, and earned Coupla…

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