Joseph Fink (1)
Author of Welcome to Night Vale
For other authors named Joseph Fink, see the disambiguation page.
About the Author
Joseph Fink is a writer and editor. He is the co-owner of Commonplace Books and has two collections of short works. He and Jeffrey Cranor write the hit podcast and touring live show Welcome to Night Vale. It Devours!, is their second book. It was published in October 2017, and is a New York Times show more bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Joseph Fink
A Commonplace Book of the Weird: The Untold Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (2010) — Editor; Contributor — 40 copies, 1 review
Alice isn't dead [podcast] 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Fink, Joseph
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- podcaster
- Short biography
- Joseph Fink (age 32 in 2018) runs a small independent publishing company, but does other work as well. His interests include reading, writing, and art of all kinds. He also loves to travel (Cambodia, Italy, Mexico, South Korea, United Kingdom) but rarely have the time to do so.
Fink met Jeffery Cranor (age 43 in 2018; grew up in Texas and Oklahoma) doing experimental theater in New York.
Joseph Fink is married to Meg Bashwiner. Megan is 32 in 2018. She has lived in Amherst, Massachusetts; Brooklyn, New York; Verona, New Jersey; Red Hook, New York.
Joseph Fink wife Megan C Bashwiner is a member of their theater group, a “NY Neo-Futurist, Proverb Lady and voice of Deb for Welcome to Night Vale Podcast/Live show, writer, performer, and sandwich ethusiast/advocat”.
Joseph Fink had successfully created a podcast that was loved by thousands of subscribers; we anxiously waited for the next episodes because the episodes for “Welcome to Night Vale,” a fictionally based podcast was released two times every month. It is about the creepy town called Night Vale where all the conspiracy theories come alive. - Nationality
- USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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In the small, isolated desert town of Night Vale, Jackie is the owner of a pawnshop that pays eleven dollars for pretty much anything that can be pawned, including tears. She's nineteen and has always been nineteen, she can't remember being any other age. It doesn't bother her that much.
Diane is a single mother to teenage shapeshifter Josh and works in an office that performs unclear business. Diane is the only person in the office who remembers a recent co-worker named Evan, though her show more memory of him is getting weaker. More importantly, she's shocked to see her ex, Josh's father, has returned to town after abandoning his family years before, and he seems to be working every job he can get.
Creeping into their lives is the worry about a mysterious man in a tan jacket who has been skittering all over town, handing over pieces of paper with two words written on them. He put one in Jackie's hand at the all-nite diner and now she can't get rid of it. The two women really dislike each other, but when Josh somehow escapes Night Vale, something few people have been able to do, they work together to find him.
Surreal, funny, and with strong doses of both sci-fi and horror, this is the second Night Vale novel I've read and now I want them all. How can I not like a place where a visit to the public library is nearly always fatal? show less
Diane is a single mother to teenage shapeshifter Josh and works in an office that performs unclear business. Diane is the only person in the office who remembers a recent co-worker named Evan, though her show more memory of him is getting weaker. More importantly, she's shocked to see her ex, Josh's father, has returned to town after abandoning his family years before, and he seems to be working every job he can get.
Creeping into their lives is the worry about a mysterious man in a tan jacket who has been skittering all over town, handing over pieces of paper with two words written on them. He put one in Jackie's hand at the all-nite diner and now she can't get rid of it. The two women really dislike each other, but when Josh somehow escapes Night Vale, something few people have been able to do, they work together to find him.
Surreal, funny, and with strong doses of both sci-fi and horror, this is the second Night Vale novel I've read and now I want them all. How can I not like a place where a visit to the public library is nearly always fatal? show less
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The scripts of the second year of Welcome to Night Vale, in which there is a sort of narrative arc of the mayoral election contest between The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home and Hiram McDaniels, the five-headed dragon; also the burgeoning romance between Cecil and Carlos; the conflicts with Desert Bluffs and with Strexcorp; and the heroism of Intern Dana and teenage Tamika Flynn. But of course the overall structure matters less show more than the individual paragraphs:
"The Museum of Forbidden Technologies is proud to announce their new special exhibit: "A Startling and Highly Forbidden Piece of Technology Brought to Us by Time Travelers... or Ancient Long-Dead Aliens... or Russians... or Whatever."
The technology will be kept in a locked vault, which itself will be wrapped in thick black bandages, with a hand-written sign taped to one side saying only:
Nope!
Your ticket includes a free audio guide, which will play a single piercing tone, designed to considerately remove you from the world of thought, and sound, and sentience.
The Museum of Forbidden Technologies. Bring your kids! Otherwise, something even worse might happen to them."
and
"Look, I know deer are cute and friendly-looking. We all remember adorable little Bambi, from the classic animated movie, with his sweet voice and white freckled rump. But we also remember the bloody end that he wrought on the humans at the end of the film, the graphic beheadings, and trees streaked with gore during the famous revenge-fueled climax.
The lesson of that movie, as in life itself, is that nature is gorgeous, and it is horrible, and it will kill you.
This has been the Children's Fun Fact Science Corner."
and
"Listeners, we here at Night Vale Community Radio need to offer the following correction:
In a previous broadcast, we described the world as "real."
We indicated, using our voice, that it was made up of many real objects and entities, and we gave descriptions of these disparate parts. We even went so far as to ascribe action and agency to some of these entities.
But, as we all know, nothing can be fully understood to be "real." Any description of the world we give is simply the world we experience – which is to say, a narrative we force onto whatever horror or void lies behind the scrim of our perception.
We at the station offer our deepest, most humble apologies for the previous, erroneous, report. We affirm once again that nothing is real – including this correction, and least of all, your experience of hearing it.
This has been Corrections."
Nothing quite beats the original deadpan audio delivery, but it is great to have the script for the bits you might not have heard because you were laughing too hard. show less
The scripts of the second year of Welcome to Night Vale, in which there is a sort of narrative arc of the mayoral election contest between The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home and Hiram McDaniels, the five-headed dragon; also the burgeoning romance between Cecil and Carlos; the conflicts with Desert Bluffs and with Strexcorp; and the heroism of Intern Dana and teenage Tamika Flynn. But of course the overall structure matters less show more than the individual paragraphs:
"The Museum of Forbidden Technologies is proud to announce their new special exhibit: "A Startling and Highly Forbidden Piece of Technology Brought to Us by Time Travelers... or Ancient Long-Dead Aliens... or Russians... or Whatever."
The technology will be kept in a locked vault, which itself will be wrapped in thick black bandages, with a hand-written sign taped to one side saying only:
Nope!
Your ticket includes a free audio guide, which will play a single piercing tone, designed to considerately remove you from the world of thought, and sound, and sentience.
The Museum of Forbidden Technologies. Bring your kids! Otherwise, something even worse might happen to them."
and
"Look, I know deer are cute and friendly-looking. We all remember adorable little Bambi, from the classic animated movie, with his sweet voice and white freckled rump. But we also remember the bloody end that he wrought on the humans at the end of the film, the graphic beheadings, and trees streaked with gore during the famous revenge-fueled climax.
The lesson of that movie, as in life itself, is that nature is gorgeous, and it is horrible, and it will kill you.
This has been the Children's Fun Fact Science Corner."
and
"Listeners, we here at Night Vale Community Radio need to offer the following correction:
In a previous broadcast, we described the world as "real."
We indicated, using our voice, that it was made up of many real objects and entities, and we gave descriptions of these disparate parts. We even went so far as to ascribe action and agency to some of these entities.
But, as we all know, nothing can be fully understood to be "real." Any description of the world we give is simply the world we experience – which is to say, a narrative we force onto whatever horror or void lies behind the scrim of our perception.
We at the station offer our deepest, most humble apologies for the previous, erroneous, report. We affirm once again that nothing is real – including this correction, and least of all, your experience of hearing it.
This has been Corrections."
Nothing quite beats the original deadpan audio delivery, but it is great to have the script for the bits you might not have heard because you were laughing too hard. show less
This is the third volume of transcripts of Welcome to Night Vale, the podcast about the small desert town where the surreal is mundane, the mundane is surreal, and all the conspiracies are true. It features episodes 50-70 (or 70B, since that one was a two-parter), as well as the live show "The Librarian," and, as in the first two volumes, each transcript comes with a short introduction from someone involved in the making of the show.
To be honest this is not my favorite run of episodes. I show more remember thinking, at the time, that everything felt a bit anti-climactic after the excitement of the StrexCorp arc (which, in retrospect, probably marked the show's high point) and that they left Carlos hanging around in that desert otherworld for entirely too long without a whole lot to show for it. I can't say I've changed my opinion on that now, either. But, hey, even probably-past-its-peak Night Vale is still pretty good stuff, and worth revisiting. And we do get the outstanding"The September Monologues" in here, as well.
I'd almost forgotten, though, about that whole story arc in which the defeated mayoral candidates pull a bunch of shenanigans, including storming City Hall, because they refuse to accept that they lost the election. That definitely resonates a bit differently right now than it did in 2015, and I have absolutely no idea how to feel about it. show less
To be honest this is not my favorite run of episodes. I show more remember thinking, at the time, that everything felt a bit anti-climactic after the excitement of the StrexCorp arc (which, in retrospect, probably marked the show's high point) and that they left Carlos hanging around in that desert otherworld for entirely too long without a whole lot to show for it. I can't say I've changed my opinion on that now, either. But, hey, even probably-past-its-peak Night Vale is still pretty good stuff, and worth revisiting. And we do get the outstanding"The September Monologues" in here, as well.
I'd almost forgotten, though, about that whole story arc in which the defeated mayoral candidates pull a bunch of shenanigans, including storming City Hall, because they refuse to accept that they lost the election. That definitely resonates a bit differently right now than it did in 2015, and I have absolutely no idea how to feel about it. show less
Mysterious pits are appearing throughout the desert town of Night Vale. At first they were out in the desert, but when one pit takes the home of Larry Leroy (and Larry Leroy), the scientists get involved. Lead scientist Carlos believes the pits are warnings from the City Council to stop his research into the desert otherworld (an alternate dimension accessible from the House That Does Not Exist). He assigns Nilanjana to investigate the pits and a possible connection with The Joyous show more Congregation of the Smiling God. What she finds is a test of faith, love, and science.
Filled with monsters both human and inhuman, this book leans into the horror genre with a heavy dash of humor and weirdness. It Devours sits at the cross-section of Twin Peaks, Eureka, and The X-Files. The plot is tight and always a surprise as it twists and turns. The characters (both old and new) are wonderful, giving fans of the podcast and new readers alike the opportunity to dig deep into Night Vale lore. The great thing about this book is that you don’t need to have any familiarity with either the “Welcome to Night Vale” podcast or the previous book of the same name. You can dive right in and sail away on this crazy ship. Cecil Baldwin, who narrates the podcast, also narrates the audiobook, so I recommend reading the book in audio format. show less
Filled with monsters both human and inhuman, this book leans into the horror genre with a heavy dash of humor and weirdness. It Devours sits at the cross-section of Twin Peaks, Eureka, and The X-Files. The plot is tight and always a surprise as it twists and turns. The characters (both old and new) are wonderful, giving fans of the podcast and new readers alike the opportunity to dig deep into Night Vale lore. The great thing about this book is that you don’t need to have any familiarity with either the “Welcome to Night Vale” podcast or the previous book of the same name. You can dive right in and sail away on this crazy ship. Cecil Baldwin, who narrates the podcast, also narrates the audiobook, so I recommend reading the book in audio format. show less
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