Welcome to Night Vale cocreator Joseph Fink learned storytelling from Grim Fandango
Joseph Fink, co-creator of the podcast 'Welcome to Night Vale', discusses his creative influences, including the 1999 game Grim Fandango. The interview covers his transition from podcasting to writing novels and his personal preferences for technology and social media.
Why it matters
It provides insight into the creative process of a prominent figure in the modern podcasting industry.
Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He’s also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice Isn’t Dead, which takes some of the conspiratorial cosmic horror of Night Vale and turns it into fodder for a more serious series about relationships, trauma, and the open road. There’s also a sequel series out now called Don’t Tell Alice that takes the story down an even darker path in which protagonist Keisha is the one with a secret.
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