Joseph and Meg’s stories meet when they both find themselves selling tickets in a cramped box office. 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. She and Joseph live in the Hudson Valley and Los Angeles.There are two sides to every love story… 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. She is an alumni member of the acclaimed New York theater company The New York Neo-Futurists. She is the emcee for the international touring live show of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast. Meg Bashwiner is a writer, performer, tour manager, podcaster and producer. Joseph Fink created the Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn't Dead podcasts and is the author of the novel Alice Isn’t Dead, and co-author of the New York Times best-selling novels Welcome to Night Vale, It Devours!, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home, and four Welcome to Night Vale episode script books: Mostly Void, Partially Stars, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe, The Buying of Lot 37, and Who’s a Good Boy. 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. Sometimes they remember the exact same details in the same way-but still have their own narrative on just what those details mean. Sometimes, they recall things differently-neither agrees on who paid for the morning after pill on their first date. 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. 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.

Celebrate the release of Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink's The First Ten Years! Meg and Joseph will be in converation with folk-rock singer-songwriter Erin McKeown.

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