The brutal honesty of Doug Coupland

Coupland talking stick

A fantastic, supportive quote has come in from UBC English professor Laura Moss, who is also an editor at the literary quarterly Canadian Literature, and the author of Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts

In the this quote, Moss compares my work to Coupland. I’m flattered by that comarison, as I admire Coupland a lot. And having had dinner at his house once, I’ll tell you a secret. Eve’s brother Ali, in the novel, lives in a house that was inspired by my memories of Coupland’s beautiful house.

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Laura writes:

“The Blue Light Project slows down today’s accelerated world in order to sympathetically probe the constraints of celebrity, public art, and biopolitics in the context of contemporary terrorism. At the core of this suspenseful novel is a hostage crisis that is terrifyingly real. Taylor forces us to consider probabilities.   What might happen at the confluence of fear, love, and hope?

Just as Taylor’s first novel Stanley Park concludes with one of the most memorable meals in contemporary literature, the final illumination in The Blue Light Project will haunt readers for decades to come.

Writing at times with the incisive vision of Margaret Atwood, the broken lyricism of Michael Ondaatje, the social realism of Rohinton Mistry, and the brutal honesty of Douglas Coupland, Timothy Taylor now firmly ranks among Canada’s finest authors.

The Blue Light Project is an important book. Pay attention.”

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