Infinite Jest
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1990s "Generation X"-type short story collection...what was it called?

I really want to remember the name of a collection of short stories (I'm pretty sure it was a collection ie., all the stories were by the same author) that I read in either late '99, or early 2000. I don't know when it was published, but the final story (which took place at an indigenous village in rural Borneo), mentioned Jack Nicholson's role as "The Joker" in the 1989 film BATMAN...so it pretty much had to have been published in the 90s (or possibly in '89). It seemed like it was kinda being marketed to what we might now term a "hipster" demographic, and was likely intended to appeal to the same sort of people who were then reading people like David Foster Wallace, Brett Easton Ellis, Douglas Coupland, etc. I don't think it was by any of these three men (and it was definitely by a man), but I guess I could be wrong.
BIG CLUE: The book had, as I recall, sort of an orange cover, and that cover appeared to have been deliberately designed to look like a box of laundry detergent (or possibly an advertisement for laundry detergent).
Is this ringing any bells for anyone?
BIG CLUE: The book had, as I recall, sort of an orange cover, and that cover appeared to have been deliberately designed to look like a box of laundry detergent (or possibly an advertisement for laundry detergent).
Is this ringing any bells for anyone?
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