The Places Language Cannot Go With John Green

First Draft Episode #307: John Green

John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of many young
adult novels, including The Fault in Our Stars and Printz-winning
Looking For Alaska, joins to discuss his new essay collection,
The Anthropocene Reviewed. He is also one half of the
vlogbrothers on YouTube and co-creator of educational series
Crash Course.


Today’s episode is brought to you by JAY’S GAY AGENDA, a moving
and hilarious sex-positive queer teen rom-com from debut novelist
Jason June, out from HarperCollins now.


Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:




Hank Green’s First Draft interview discussing A Beautifully
Foolish Endeavor, the sequel to his #1 New York Times
bestselling debut, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. Hank is,
along with his brother John Green, the CEO of Complexly,
co-host of the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel and the Dear Hank
and John podcast, and is also co-founder of VidCon, DFTBA
Records, and Crash Course. Listen to his First Draft
interview here.




The Babysitter’s Club by Anne M. Martin




Fallen Angels and Monster by Walter Dean Myers




Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt




Where the Red Fern Goes by Wilson Rawls




Sula and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison




Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five and Cat’s Cradle




The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne




Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony
Kushner




Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird




J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye




Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak, Chains, and memoir
Shout




Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming,
Locomotion, Another Brooklyn, and many many more.




Harvey (movie)




Booklist




The Looking For Alaska mini-series in Hulu




“The Anthropocene Reviewed Reviewed,” an episode of John’s
podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed




“On Being Ill” by Virginia Woolf




Turtles All the Way Down by John Green




“Hank Reviews Everything” video on the Vlogbrothers channel




Katrina Vandenberg, poet




Claude Glass




Superleague (official website, woof) explained so well in
this New York Times review and this podcast episode of The
Daily, as well as the three-episode breakdown of Men In
Jackets (ep 1, ep 2, ep 3)


 




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Veronica Roth, #1 New York
Times bestselling author of the Divergent series, the Carve
the Mark duology, and the short story collection, The End and
Other Beginnings, talks about her first adult fantasy novel,
Chosen Ones.




Maureen Johnson, New York
Times bestselling author of of several YA novels, including
13 Little Blue Envelopes, Suite Scarlett, The Name of the
Star, and Truly Devious: A Mystery. She has also done
collaborative works, such as Let It Snow (with John Green and
Lauren Myracle), and The Bane Chronicles (with Cassandra
Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan).




Jason Reynolds, New York
Times bestselling author of critically acclaimed books,
including National Book Award finalist Ghost, Newberry and
Printz-honored Long Way Down, Coretta Scott King Honoree As
Brave as You, and his latest, middle grade Look Both Ways,
which was just named to the National Book Award Longlist for
Young People’s Literature.




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