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The New Yorker

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Life, Loss, and Music

Memoir and music fans will love Rob Sheffield's funny and heartbreaking debut, Love Is a Mix Tape, a book Chuck Klosterman calls the "happiest, saddest, greatest book about rock & roll that I've ever experienced."

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