“Time doesn’t work in Night Vale,” someone says in the book. Also, the highway department presents a public service announcement, read by Cecil, in which they remind Night Vale residents to buckle up, then hunker down, then forget everything, remember everything and open their eyes to what is really going on. In a recent episode, a sentient patch of haze with a wicked Midwestern accent, Deb, comes on the air with Cecil to bring a message from sponsor Jo-Ann Fabrics. The shows are somewhat in the vein of “A Prairie Home Companion,” only completely weird and surreal. Slate named the pilot episode as one of the best podcasts ever. The Night Vale podcasts are presented as a radio show hosted by a guy named Cecil Gershwin Palmer, who shares news about the town in a soothing, friendly and NPR-ish voice. Night Vale is, as Cranor describes it, “in the non-specific American southwest desert, where ghosts and government and angels are commonplace and people go about their lives.” A traveling live show based on the podcasts came a couple of years later. In case you’re late to the Night Vale party, here’s a quick recap: Fink, along with Jeffrey Cranor, created a podcast called “Welcome to Night Vale” in 2012. That somehow seems more appropriate for a co-author of Welcome to Night Vale, the new novel based on the wildly popular podcast of the same name. I prefer to imagine that his spotty cell reception is actually because he’s calling from a dark bunker in an undisclosed location. Joseph Fink claims he’s calling from a New Jersey beach.
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