Walt Whitman

person · in 13 videos (2007–2011)

Mentions by year: 2007: 4 · 2008: 3 · 2009: 4 · 2011: 2

Threads

2007-09-10 · September 10th: Airports and Whitman — Travelling light to Orlando, John brings only a change of clothes, a computer and 'my old friend Walt Whitman', and closes by reading lines of Whitman's poetry. (00:01:41)
2007-09-28 · September 28th: Nerdfighting!!! — In Richmond John talked a lot about Walt Whitman and met Nerdfighters doing cool, clever nerdfighting. (00:00:00)
2007-11-05 · November 5th: John's Not Happy about Pakistan — John says lately he has poetry earworms as well as song ones (he sings a Harry Potter song lyric), such as Walt Whitman's lines on the luck of being born and dying. (00:01:21)
2007-12-05 · December 4th: Question Tuesday!!!! — Asked what appeals to him in Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, John says readers will find out when Paper Towns comes out, in September. (00:02:07)

2008-04-21 · Belated Book-tacular Questions — Asked for favorite poets besides Walt Whitman, John recites unattributed lines from several poems, then can't find his Langston Hughes book in his cataloged home library. (00:03:00)
2008-10-16 · What Did You Think of Paper Towns! — A contributor's favourite thing is that Paper Towns handles big, important ideas without sounding lofty or condescending, mixing Walt Whitman and penis jokes. (00:01:56)

2009-02-11 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — Song of Myself is central because it is a beautiful poem deeply involved with how we can imagine other people more effectively (and, he jokes, Whitman is hot). (00:00:00)
2009-02-11 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John says Paper Towns is about Margo Roth Spiegelman, her next-door neighbour Q, the state of Florida and Walt Whitman. (00:00:00)
2009-08-31 · 100 QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!!!! — In quick literary picks John chooses Joyce over Yeats and Whitman over Faulkner, names Hamlet his favorite play, and says he liked The Hunger Games. (00:01:20)
2009-10-20 · The Bella Twins Like Paper Towns — John marvels that in a popularity contest his book about Walt Whitman beat Stephenie Meyer's book about hot vampires. (00:00:58)

2011-04-25 · Meeting Greg Mortenson — In his two-minute talk John described his book as about Walt Whitman and imagining others complexly; Mortenson followed with a book about nearly dying and devoting his life to education in Afghanistan. (00:00:50)
2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors — Without Julie, John says, Paper Towns would be largely a boring history of the US Postal Service instead of being about Whitman's Song of Myself. (00:02:54)