CASSETTE FROM MY EX

Friends, we’re thrilled to announce our latest secret project.  Cassette from My Ex: Stories and Soundtracks of Lost Loves shares sixty hilarious, nostalgic and heartbreaking stories stories all about crushes and mixtapes.

Cassette From My Ex marries confessional culture projects like Mortified, PostSecret, and Six-Word Memoirs with the nostalgia and heartache of Rob Sheffield’s Love Is A Mixtape and gathers these tales of being young, in love, and making mixtapes for your crush.

CFME compiles stories from some amazing writers and musicians: author Rick Moody, The Magnetic Fields’ Claudia Gonson, This American LIfe’s Starlee Kine, The New Yorker’s Ben Greenman, Blender Magazine’s Joe Levy, Improv Everywhere’s Charlie Todd, Mortified’s David Nadelberg–  even a new story from the godfather of the genre, Rob Sheffied.

We put a ton of love into the design, too, with 224 full-color pages designed by noted cassetteophile Lissi Erwin, with cover illustrations by the excellent Hope Gangloff.

Here’s some opening lines to whet your whistle:

“At first, I thought she was an alcoholic lesbian.”
-MC

“I was an Asian guy with long hair who was into Heavy Metal; she was a Latvian dancer who liked to chain-smoke Camels.”
-FJ

“My first kiss ended in bloodshed.”
-JS

“At nineteen, I had violently violet hair and ate mostly egg whites, grapefruit, and cheese.”
-MC

“Long ago, in a city I will not name, I loved a woman, and she punished me for it.”
-BG

It’s available for pre-order at Amazon now for a super cheep price.  Thanks to everyone who made it happen, and we’re psyched to hear what you think.