![]() The program involves five public lectures in cities across Canada they are recorded and broadcast on CBC Radio’s Ideas program - for those with accesss to CBC, Coupland’s will air nightly from Nov. (1967) and Jane Jacobs (1979) recent luminaries include Michael Ignatieff (2000), Alberto Manguel (2007) and Margaret Atwood (2008). He joins an illustrious group - the early lecturers included Northrop Frye (1962), John Kenneth Galbraith (1965), Martin Luther King, Jr. ![]() This year’s series marks the half century of the lectures whose purpose is to “enable distinguished authorities to communicate the results of original study on important subjects of contemporary interest”, so Coupland is a reasonable choice. The former distinction is testimony to Coupland’s substantial reputation and following the latter is one that I am at a loss to explain. ![]() ![]() ![]() Review copy courtesy of House of Anansi While Canada’s Massey Lectures have been published as a book for decades (House of Anansi Press is a sponsor and an appendix in this book lists 31 volumes of previous lectures), Douglas Coupland’s Player One is the first ever to be published as a novel - which by default means that it is the first ever Massey Lecture contribution to be longlisted for the Giller Prize. ![]()
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