coupland is an officer of the order of canada, and a member of the order of british columbia. he published his thirteenth novel "worst. person. ever." in 2012. he also released an updated version of "city of glass" and a biography of marshall mcluhan for penguin canada in their "extraordinary canadians" series, called "". he is the presenter of the 2010 massey lectures, and a companion novel to the lectures, "player one – what is to become of us: a novel in five hours". coupland has been longlisted twice for the scotiabank giller prize in 2006 and 2010, was a finalist for the writers' trust fiction prize in 2009, and was nominated for the hubert evans non-fiction prize in 2011 for "".