Love is a Mix Tape
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Love is a Mix Tape is a memoir by Rob Sheffield
. It uses fifteen mix tapes to frame the story of his courtship and marriage to Renée Crist, a fellow DJ, graduate student, and mix tape aficionado, before her death from a pulmonary embolism
in 1997.
GQ magazine published an excerpt of the memoir in its January 2007 issue.
Rob Sheffield
Rob Sheffield is an American music journalist and author. He is currently a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, writing music reviews and essays on pop culture. Prior to that, he was a contributing editor at Blender before the print version of the magazine folded in 2009, and at Spin...
. It uses fifteen mix tapes to frame the story of his courtship and marriage to Renée Crist, a fellow DJ, graduate student, and mix tape aficionado, before her death from a pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism
Pulmonary embolism is a blockage of the main artery of the lung or one of its branches by a substance that has travelled from elsewhere in the body through the bloodstream . Usually this is due to embolism of a thrombus from the deep veins in the legs, a process termed venous thromboembolism...
in 1997.
GQ magazine published an excerpt of the memoir in its January 2007 issue.