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Miss Wyoming (novel) of them became friends. Some of them I met in passing, but I ended up with this huge reservoir of things [about fame] that wanted to be tapped." "Miss Wyoming" marked a radical departure from Coupland's writing style for earlier novels. Previously, he wrote his notes from a notebook filled with observations. For "Miss Wyoming", Coupland internalized the note-taking process. It was also his first novel written entirely in the third person. Jensen, Mikkel "Miss(ed) Generation: Douglas Coupland's "Miss Wyoming." in "Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research", Volume 3, 2011, pp. 455–474. Direct link: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/v3/a29/cu11v3a29.pdf Miss Wyoming (novel) Miss