CanLit bonfire in N.Y. Times

To enliven the waning days of summer, Vancouver-based novelist Douglas Coupland has published a provocative rant in the online New York Times about Canadian literature.
'Can/Lit (sic),' he writes, 'is when the Canadian government pays you money to write about life in small towns and/or the immigrant experience.'
He also writes that CanLit is anti-urban and anti-modern in spirit, and inimical to experimental writers like himself. He blamed entrenched, aging authors (none named) who suck up all the attention.
The piece also takes aim at the system of government grants, supposedly limited to those who 'follow CanLit's guidelines.' (Coupland has never received Canada Council money.)
Yet he ends by calling for more grants: 'The Canadian government ought to be hurling 10 times as much cash at literary arts.'