Deborah Solomon puts her questions to Canadian pop-lit icon, Douglas Coupland in this weekend’s New York Times magazine, proving the man is as sharp as a kebab skewer, especially when he’s not being edited by a committee of VANOC-word-police, as one suspects happened in his Vancouver 2010 Official Souvenir Program piece. (For that story, Coupland…
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Whistler’s Killer Highway is Born Again – The Kittens Are Safe Now.
It’s February 1996 and a high-pressure system has locked over Whistler and Squamish. My brother and I pile into my husband’s old Volvo and navigate the narrow winding highway for a day of down-clad rockclimbing. The highway’s canyon walls press so tightly against us that in places I suck in my breath. I’m driving, which proves what a high…
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