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JPod Based on Douglas Coupland’s Novel; BookShorts FILM January 15, 2010 / / Films
Screenplay Bruce Pirrie; Produced by BookShorts Inc.
With Random House of Canada
Based on the novel JPod by Douglas Coupland, Published by Vintage Canada
The JPod BookShort centres on Ethan Jarlewski’s stunted but sincere efforts to win the amorous attentions of the new girl Kaitin Boyce, an unwilling recruit to the cult of video game programmers thrown together in surreal work pods by virtue of bureaucratic last-name alphabetized efficiency. Consummated with a kiss that is the epitome of modern love, Ethan indoctrinates Kaitlin into the amoral morass that is the JPod.
Watch this BookShort and more on the national televisions series MOVING STORIES broadcast on CLT, BookTelevision and Rogers Television.
[...] But it’s not too much of a shame, because Annie Proulx isn’t even Canadian (she’s American), and I was more interested in reading fiction or non-fiction by Canadian authors. The only Canadian author that I have read is Douglas Coupland, who is one of my favorite authors of all time. Seriously, go read JPod. It’s an incredibly current and amazing piece of literature that really nails what the video programming industry is like in America. I am not a video game player at all and this is one of my favorite books of all time. (I actually met a really cool woman named Judith Kennan at SJIWFF who makes book trailers and made one for JPod! Check it out!) [...]