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First Draft Episode #307: John Green
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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)
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
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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