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Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor present Welcome to Night Vale
Thursday, November 12, 7:30 PM
Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor present Welcome to Night Vale
In conversation with Ashley Ford
Tickets $20 (includes a copy of the book)
Part of the Brooklyn Voices Series presented by Greenlight Bookstore and St. Joseph's College
Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, the creators and co-writers of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast ("like A Prairie Home Companion with LSD in its drinking water" Los Angeles Times), bring their folksy, surreal creativity to their novel Welcome to Night Vale. Set in Night Vale, a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life, the novel tells the story of two women a perpetually nineteen-year-old pawn shop owner and the PTA president whose son is also a shape shifter and the mystery of King City that plagues them both. Fink and Cranor talk about the book and the podcast with Brooklyn writer and critic Ashley Ford.
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Joseph Fink created and co-writes the Welcome to Night Vale podcast and touring live show. In his mid-twenties he started Commonplace Books, a very 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. Later Jeffrey approached Joseph with the idea of writing a play about time travel. They co-wrote and performed this play in the East Village in August of 2011. Soon afterwards, Joseph started brainstorming a new project he and Jeffrey could co-write and this led to the pilot episode of Welcome to Night Vale. He is from California but doesn't live there anymore.
Jeffrey Cranor co-writesalong with Joseph Finkthe hit podcast and touring live show Welcome to Night Vale. He also makes theater and dance. He has written more than 100 short plays with the New York Neo-Futurists, co-wrote and co-performed a two-man show (What the Time Traveler Will Tell Us) with Joseph, and collaborated with choreographer (also wife) Jillian Sweeney to create three full-length dance pieces: Imaginary Lines, This could be it., and Vulture-Wally. Jeffrey lives in New York State.
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Greenlight Bookstore has partnered with St. Joseph's College since 2012 to present the Brooklyn Voices series of literary presentations and discussions at Tuohy Hall, part of the college's historic Pratt-designed Brooklyn campus. Past guests have included Junot Diaz, Elizabeth Gilbert, Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Greil Marcus, David Mitchell, Colson Whitehead, and others.
More at greenlightbookstore.com/brooklynvoices
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LocationSt. Joseph's College, Tuohy Hall (View)
245 Clinton Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
United States
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