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The Wilco Book, October 2004… Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, April 2000
Okay, so I should’ve written about this when the book came out a month ago. I would’ve, but we were busy trying to avert an electoral disaster. (Lotta good that did. I’m filing that experience along with college and my last two jobs under ‘H’ for ‘Heartbreaking Failures.’)
So, let’s chalk this up to the science of Amazon recommendations: If you listen to Yankee Hotel Foxtrot on your iPod, you might like carrying around Infinite Jest. (And, yes, you might be the coolest fucking person ever. At least in your own mind, man.)