My freshman year of college, I discovered Yo La Tengo by reading a book catalog (
Ziesing's) with a little article by Lucius Shepard in it in which Lucius listed a bunch of bands he was digging at the time. I liked the name, so I bought President/New Wave Hot Dogs and have been devoted to their music ever since. So when Lucius talks, I listen. Here's an old article I stumbled across where
Lucius talks up Paul Mann's novels.