Cassettes

In November of 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Matthew M. Barteltt joined the Great Resignation and immediately began work on a five-year project suggested and inspired by Jonathan Dennison of Cadabra Records: the WXXT Program Guide, a yearly fiction chapbook subscription service. The stories in this volume are from the first year of chapbooks. Come join us, once again, in the signal-slain city of Leeds, Massachusetts.

Paul Cooperford, owner and proprietor of Fuzzbuzz Records and Tapes, offers for sale, among the usual audio recordings in a variety of genres, a collection of amateurly produced cassettes featuring found recordings and field recordings whose contents range from the bizarre to the truly horrific. One of Cooperford's favored clients has diabolical ties to a certain radio station out of Leeds, Massachusetts. You're listening to WXXT - the reels with the squeals and the rotten deals, the tapes of the japes of the Pioneer Valley.