The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same Love Story

Joseph and Meg are here to tell you about their new memoir that
they co-wrote called The First Ten Years: Two Sides of the Same
Love Story. It’s a memoir about being two kids in love, and then
suddenly having a touring live show based on a weird fiction
podcast and traveling around the world together. You can pre-order
it now! Just go to tinyurl.com/firsttenyears or wherever you get
your books. Here’s the official synopsis if you want more info: A
sometimes hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and always
entertaining joint memoir by Joseph Fink, cocreator of Welcome
to Night Vale, and his wife, writer and performer Meg Bashwiner,
chronicling the first ten years of their relationship from both
sides. In 2009, 22-year-old Joseph Fink, newly arrived to New York
City from the West Coast, was juggling odd jobs to pay the rent and
volunteering with a theater company in the East Village so he could
snag free tickets to their shows. Meg Bashwiner, a 22-year-old
aspiring performer and playwright, was living with her parents in
New Jersey, working a desk job and commuting to her internship with
that same East Village theater company. Joseph and Meg's stories
meet when they both find themselves selling tickets in a cramped
box office. They quickly became friends. Within a year, they were a
couple. Within five years they were touring the world, performing
on some of the world's greatest and not so great stages. In this
candid, soul-baring memoir, Joseph and Meg recount their first ten
years together, each telling their story as they remember it,
without having consulted the other. We hear both sides of their
first kiss, first breakup, first getting back together, the death
of a father, marriage, international fame, world tours, mental
illness, and discussions about having children. Sometimes, they
recall things differently—neither agrees on who paid for the
morning after pill on their first date. Sometimes they remember the
exact same details in the same way—but still have their own
narrative on just what those details mean. Poignant, funny, and
real, alternately told in Joseph and Meg’s remarkably different,
yet equally compelling voices, The First Ten Years is the
story of two individuals finding their way in the world and
becoming "adults" as they learn to become a couple. Learn more
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