Critical Approaches to Welcome to Night Vale Podcasting between Weat
With well over one-hundred episodes, the podcast Welcome to Night Vale has spawned several international live tours, two novels set in the Night Vale universe, and an extensive volume of fan fiction and commentary. However, despite its immense popularity,
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Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Critical Approaches to Welcome to Night Vale
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Editor
Critical Approaches to Welcome to Night Vale Podcasting between Weather and the Void
Editor Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Department of English Language and Literature Central Michigan University Mount Pleasant, MI, USA
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Contents
1 Introduction: Between Weather and the Void—Welcome to Night Vale 1 Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock 2 “Everything About Him Was Just Perfect. And I Fell in Love Instantly”: Life and Love in Welcome to Night Vale 23 Dawn Stobbart 3 Our Friendly Desert Town: Alternative Podcast Culture in Welcome to Night Vale 35 Danielle Hancock 4 On Floating Cats, Good Boys, and Shapeshifting Zookeepers: Animals in Night Vale 51 Heidi Lyn 5 “It Would Make More Sense for It to Be There Than Not”: Constructing Night Vale as a “Place” 69 Andy McCumber 6 “More Reassuring Noise in This Quiet World”: Narrative Intimacy and the Acousmatic Voice of Night Vale 83 Grace Gist
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7 Who Killed Cecil Palmer? The Role of Memory in Night Vale’s Self-Narrative Rupture 95 Michael Patrick Vaughn 8 Ode for the Lights Above the Arby’s: Reading Welcome to Night Vale Through the Lens of Poetry 109 Elliott Freeman 9 “Fear the Night Sky!”: On the Nightvalian Void and an Ethics of Risk 121 Line Henriksen Index 133
Notes on Contributors
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