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 and this is the interview to prove it. Plus, look, he has grown a beard – he makes it awfully hard for me to develop a crush on him.

I thought there was something too holistically artistic about him.  All this artsy art he produces, all this amazingly deep insight into people… I guess that explains it. Fortunately, i have never had a crush on Douglas Coupland.  Well, maybe a small one, with his photo with the aeroplanes, where he looks like a naughty kid, and somewhat gay - yeah, i know, now everybody can claim they had figured it out beforehand.

 But i have had a relationship with the man.  I must have read Microserfs  and LIFE AFTER GOD three times each. And most of his other books, except Vancouver. Yeah. Nowadays Eleanor Rigby is on my selves waiting to be read and i am about to order JPod .

Plus, when my first book came out, every other critic in the country liked to compare me with him. (The others compared me to Irvine Welsh.) Because it was an identity searching/ generation defying/American in a way, thing, i guess. Or very British, in another way- yes, i realise i am not making any sense right now.

Whoever you like, you guys, as long as you keep comparing.