Douglas Coupland

Interviewed by GQ.

Ask most people to proffer a cultural opinion on what's "over" and you'll likely receive answers of the "suit jacket worn with jeans" variety. Ask author Douglas Coupland and, depending on the year, he'll respond with "the Interview," "Literature," or "Movies." Bold claims. But a word of warning to those who dare doubt him: This is the same man who successfully named a generation (X) without even trying, who anticipated the ungodly power of Microsoft and the dot-com bubble (in his 1995 novel Microserfs) and introduced the phrase "McJob" into the English language.