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Welcome to Night Vale

The First Ten Years, Year 5: 2014

Welcome to Night Vale

Welcome to Night Vale

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

4.828.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A sometimes hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and always entertaining joint memoir by Joseph Fink, cocreator of Welcome to Night Vale, and his wife, writer and performer Meg Bashwiner, chronicling the first ten years of their relationship from both sides.

There are two sides to every love story.

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Coming May 11th.

Pre-order your copy at your local bookstore or any of these places:

Oblong Books (for Personalized Signed Editions)
HarperCollins
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Books-a-Million
Indiebound
Bookshop
Apple Books
Google

THE FIRST TEN YEARS BOOK TOUR!

Joseph and Meg will be on a virtual book tour in May. Come see them live online via these fantastic booksellers:

MAY 11 - Politics & Prose (DC), in conversation with Dylan Marron

MAY 12 - Oblong Books (NY), in conversation with Jeffrey Cranor

MAY 13 - Powell’s (OR), in conversation with Symphony Sanders

MAY 14 - Brookline Booksmith (MA), in conversation with Erin McKeown

MAY 17 - Malaprop’s Bookstore (NC), in conversation with Jonny Sun

MAY 19 - The Booksmith (CA), in conversation with Mara Wilson

MAY 20 - Books & Books (FL)

MAY 24 - Anderson’s Bookshop (IL), in conversation with Hal Lublin

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, here's a heads up.

0:01.6

What you are about to listen to contains adult language

0:04.6

and focuses on adult topics.

0:06.8

So if that's not for you or for who you are listening with,

0:10.3

now is a great time to turn this off.

0:13.3

Hi, it's Meg Bashwinner,

0:15.0

Reader of Proverbs, Nightvale Live Show MC,

0:18.4

Good Morning Nightvale Co-host,

0:20.4

and portrayer of your favorite polyamorous,

0:23.1

sentient patch of haze, Deb.

0:25.4

I also hold the esteemed role of wife

0:28.2

to Nightvale writer Joseph Fink.

0:30.3

Joseph and I have written our first book together.

0:33.4

It's called The First 10 Years,

0:35.9

and it's a memoir telling our love story

0:38.0

from each of our perspectives.

0:39.8

It is out May 11th, which is next Tuesday.

0:43.7

In 2019, Joseph and I started writing this book

0:46.8

going year by year through our relationship

0:49.0

from its start until 2019,

0:51.6

without conferring or consulting with each other at all.

0:54.9

The resulting book chronicles the past 10 years of our lives

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