The Summer of Night Vale Presents, Part 1

Welcome to the Summer of Night Vale Presents, a celebration and
sampling of some of the shows across our network. This week: a look
at two of our non-fiction shows, I Only Listen to the Mountain
Goats and Conversations with People Who Hate Me. I Only Listen to
the Mountain Goats is a show about what it means to be an artist,
to be a fan, and as many people are, both at once. Our first season
found Welcome to Night Vale creator Joseph Fink in conversation
with John Darnielle, singer and songwriter of the Mountain Goats,
about their album All Hail West Texas. You’ll hear an excerpt from
episode 9, “The Mess Inside,” which shows how these conversations
wander through topics in unexpected ways. Conversations with People
Who Hate Me is a show where Dylan Marron, whom you may know as
Carlos the Scientist on Welcome to Night Vale, takes contentious
online conversations and moves them offline. This year, Dylan has
been moderating conversations between people who have exchanged
their own online negativity. You’ll hear the entirety of episode
12, “Burned at the Stake,” featuring a woman who wrote about why
the TV show The Office doesn’t hold up to today’s standards and a
man who told her she should be burned at the stake. Find out more
about these shows, and all of the shows on our network, by visiting
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