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Welcome to Night Vale

Night, Lovecraft, Commonplace, Radio, Science Fiction, Nightvaleradio, Welcome, Cecil, Fiction, Nightvale, Cranor, Vale, Neofuturists, Fink

4.828.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Joseph has a few things to chat about with you, and then we present the first episode of our new show, Our Plague Year.

Introducing a new kind of current events podcast. An island in a storm of bad headlines. An experiment in public anxiety. Let's get through this year together.

Subscribe at http://ourplagueyear.libsyn.com/ or wherever you get your podcasts.

Written and produced by Joseph Fink

"Don't Look for the Helpers" by Cory Doctorow

"Social Distances" by Nisi Shawl

The song "This Too Shall Pass" by Danny Schmidt

All other music by Joseph Fink

Logo artwork by Jessica Hayworth

A production of Night Vale Presents

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Joseph Fink here.

0:01.4

Did you know that along with writing this podcast

0:03.6

that you are right now listening to?

0:05.8

We also write books, and it's true.

0:08.5

There are three, count them, three Nightville novels,

0:12.4

full length, standalone novels, telling stories

0:15.0

that are not in the podcast.

0:17.1

The most recent, the faceless old woman

0:19.5

who secretly lives in your home,

0:21.2

which tells the life story of that character

0:23.6

is one of my favorite things we've ever written.

0:26.2

We also write non-nightville books.

0:28.6

Jeffrey Kraner and Janina Matthewson recently released,

0:31.7

you feel it just below the ribs.

0:34.3

A standalone novel full of footnotes

0:36.7

and a deeply unreliable narrator

0:39.2

that takes place in the world of there

0:41.5

within the wires podcast.

0:43.6

Meanwhile, my wife, Meg and I released a memoir

0:47.0

called The First Ten Years,

0:49.3

in which we each wrote how we remembered

0:51.9

the first 10 years of our relationship

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