Fink is also the creator of the Alice Isn't Dead podcast and novel.įink lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife. Soon afterwards, Fink started brainstorming a new project he and Jeffrey could co-write and this led to the pilot episode of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast, which is now an incredibly successful project which tours live and has also spawned a novel featuring the same characters. Jeffrey Cranor approached Fink with an idea to write a play about time travel together, which was performed in the East Village in Manhattan in 2011. In his mid-twenties he started Commonplace Books, a small publishing company, producing two collections of short works which he edited and laid out at his office job when his boss wasn't looking. i like any episode that involves me getting to hang out with one of our cast members. VJ Books Presents Author Joseph Fink! Joseph Fink was born in California. I wanted to use that as a jumping-off point for a podcast, where we motivate people to get working on something and it’s short and achievable.You are here: Home > Our Authors > Fink, Joseph We come from this background in the Neo-Futurists where you were forced to write all the time and get out a short play every week with different needs – it had to have music in it, or it needed to be topical, or it needed to be a two-person dialogue. “I’m still figuring it all out myself and I don't think there will ever be 10 rules for great writing anyway. “We didn't want it to be prescriptive,” says Cranor. They focus on a different subject in each episode – getting from idea to execution, the art of collaboration, how to receive and use feedback, how to make something with almost no money. Fink also co-hosts a non-fiction podcast with novelist and singer-songwriter John Darnielle called I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats, where the two dissect one of his songs every episode.Īs well as releasing like-minded shows from other creators, such as The Orbiting Human Circus (Of The Air) and Conversations With People Who Hate Me, this year Fink and Cranor premiered Start With This, a non-fiction podcast where they share tips on creativity and assign something to consume (a podcast, a book) and something to create. Meanwhile, Fink writes Alice Isn’t Dead, which follows a trucker named Keisha who is driving across the US and searching for her missing wife. Each season of Cranor’s Within The Wires is told as a series of audiotapes – relaxation tapes, museum audio guides, letters narrated from a bureaucrat to his secretary. A sometimes hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and always entertaining joint memoir by Joseph Fink, cocreator of Welcome to Night Vale, and his wife. The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home is an excellent, absorbing book. They have a clear vision in mind, and every element of the book builds toward it, with emotionally devastating, sometimes brutally funny, results. They work so fast, in fact, that they’ve created a slew of other podcasts through the Night Vale Presents network. 'Fink and Cranor are masters of the long narrative game. WELCOME TO THE GREAT GLOWING COILS OF THE UNIVERSE: WELCOME to Night Vale Episodes, Volume 2 by Joseph Fink. Jeffrey and I are now very fast writers and we can bang out a thousand words in a very short time.” But where did it go, and why was it so maligned. The main thing I learned from that time is the value of constantly creating new work. I never saw her again, but I met Jeffrey there, who became my writing partner, and I met Meg, who became my wife. “I went there on a first date in late 2008. “I owe a lot to the Neo-Futurists,” says Fink. The podcast spawned two novels, a stage show and a podcast called Good Morning Night Vale that dissects each episode.
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