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All statements about John's untitled novel (2011)

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2011

2012

  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — announcement: John says The Fault in Our Stars comes out today, January 10, 2012, though he is filming on Monday, January 9, because he is busy tomorrow. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John is a bit stressed: he has to leave his family for a month, which is a bummer, but he is excited to go on tour. — 00:00:12
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — John says TFIOS grew from his work almost twelve years ago as a student chaplain at a children's hospital; he has been trying ever since to write a funny, honest story about it. — 00:00:28
  • 2012-01-10 (said on 2012-01-09, implied) · The Fault in Our Stars — announcement: John says Tour de Nerdfighting tickets remain only near New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Seattle and San Francisco, with ticket info in the description. — 00:02:31
  • 2012-01-13 (said on 2012-01-10, implied) · TFiOS PARTY! — Hank tells John he is really proud of him and of The Fault in Our Stars: every review has been fantastic, everyone on Amazon loves it, and Hank loves it. — 00:00:42
  • 2012-01-13 (said on 2012-01-10, implied) · TFiOS PARTY! — announcement: Hank warns that buyers of the audiobook from DFTBA Records should not watch its DVD before reading or listening to the book, because the DVD contains spoilers. — 00:01:07
  • 2012-01-13 (said on 2012-01-10, implied) · TFiOS PARTY! — announcement: Hank says that during the tour the brothers do 'Nerdcash': leaving bags of buttons in places, which viewers can only find out about by following them on Twitter. — 00:01:07
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: On tour John wakes every morning after a few hours of sleep with 'Five Hundred Miles' stuck in his head, packs up and drives 500 miles or so in the van to the next place. — 00:00:01
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: They arrive in the early afternoon to lots of books needing signatures and Hanklerfishes, which takes a couple of hours. — 00:00:25
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: Then many people arrive, wearing John's face or Doctor Who shirts, bringing book cakes, some with things he wrote tattooed on their bodies; John finds it amazing, beautiful and completely terrifying. — 00:00:43
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: At the show John reads and talks about The Fault in Our Stars, Hank sings, John answers questions, Hank wears a tutu, and in joint questions whoever is talking when the timer goes off is shocked with Charlie McDonnell's 'patented shocker'. — 00:01:37
  • 2012-01-17 · Thoughts from Places: The Tour — John: After the show they sign for five hours, reach the hotel around 2 a.m., and John sleeps a few hours before it starts again. — 00:02:10
  • 2012-01-20 · Thoughts on SOPA From New Orleans — Hank: The brothers are in New Orleans and played a show last night (19 January 2012) in a synagogue, weird but awesome; John is at a conference while Hank walks the city with his wife, eating and watching street performers. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — John: A traveller, apparently John (speaker inferred), says he had four hours of sleep and asks Hank for a very quiet video. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — Hank narrates the drive from Arizona across the river into California, with back-and-forth over where the border is, and a stop at the Jesus Christ is Lord Travel Center. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — announcement: Hank introduces John as the number one New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:00:51
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — John: Asked how being number one feels, John calls it ridiculous, says he loves Nerdfighteria and that, much as he'd like credit, it has nothing to do with him. — 00:00:51
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — Hank says Time Magazine said John was 'damn near genius', then teases him about the 'near'. — 00:01:27
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — both: The brothers banter about the tour shows: a show line 'my greatest accomplishment is being your brother' is called a favourite joke, and one brother gets shocked almost every night instead of the other (speakers unclear). (playful) — 00:01:27
  • 2012-01-27 · In 'N' Out-Erview — John: Asked what he does backstage before a show, John says he mostly watches Hank play the same Chameleon Circuit song over and over; the brothers then joke about nerves and practising the set songs. (playful) — 00:02:00
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John's description thanks everyone who came to the tour, the independent bookstores and theaters that hosted it, and the Nerdfighter who held the camera. — video description
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John says the Tour de Nerdfighting is coming to an end after three weeks; last night (30 January 2012) they were signing in Seattle. — 00:00:01
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John says the three weeks were like the internet became IRL: fun, clever, crowded, good to be a nerd, with talk of Sherlock and Doctor Who and singing of songs about particle physics. — 00:00:01
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John: Like the internet, the tour went by very fast, like pressing the down key on Tumblr; John says a problem with the internet is that things pass too fast to really experience them. — 00:00:30
  • 2012-01-31 · How It Felt — John tells Hank the video is for their future selves: this is what the tour was like and how it felt; a montage follows with a crowd singing 'Five Hundred Miles'. — 00:00:51
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank says someone on tour suggested he redo 'An Awful Lot of Running' as 'An Awful Lot of Driving', and he did; he sings the parody about tour life. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank: In the song Hank describes the tour bus, playing Xbox 360 and beating John, waiting stage left every night, and stopping at 17 places in 21 days on cookies and gas station food. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank tells John that he and Katherine kept saying 'we did it' after the last show, at the hotel, the airport, landing in Missoula and getting into their own bed. — 00:00:54
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank wants to look back on the three weeks but can't: asked for a fun tour story he can't think of one; the tour feels like it lasted forever and took no time at all. — 00:01:35
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank thanks the many people who made the tour possible, especially those who came out and were enthusiastic, and says he doesn't know how he got so lucky. — 00:03:18
  • 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — announcement: John gives the blog for readers who have finished The Fault in Our Stars as a Tumblr whose password is the last word of the book's acknowledgements, case sensitive. — video description
  • 2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — announcement: John: For readers who have finished The Fault in Our Stars, and only for them, John has created a password-protected blog with his answers to questions, where they can comment and discuss the book. — 00:01:57
  • 2012-03-20 · Sharpie Face Question Tuesday — John says The Fault in Our Stars is currently number 2 on the New York Times bestseller list, behind only Hugo Cabret, a book he really liked. — 00:01:41
  • 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John says the trip supported the publication of the Dutch edition of The Fault in Our Stars; he gave a series of interviews in the hotel library. — 00:01:13
  • 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John: On the trip John visited the Central Library of Amsterdam, where he wrote much of The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:01:13
  • 2012-03-27 · Wrong but Right: Thoughts from Places Amsterdam — John: Recalling the months he lived in Amsterdam, much of the time sick and crippled with anxiety, John now thinks only of how much one can love and miss made-up people. — 00:02:01
  • 2012-11-13 · I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. — announcement: John announces that Amazon.com named The Fault in Our Stars one of the ten best books of 2012 overall, not just for teenagers, right behind Dave Eggers and ahead of Junot Díaz. — 00:00:05
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — John says Time Magazine has just named The Fault in Our Stars first on its list of the top ten novels of 2012, ahead of Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, Junot Diaz and J.K. Rowling, and he is overwhelmed. — 00:00:00

2013

  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says none of those books addressed what he saw at the hospital, which left him feeling only nihilism; then he became friends with Esther Earl and became a father. — 00:53:28
  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says Henry's birth showed him he'll be Henry's dad as long as either lives; that love is in this sense stronger than death was very important to TFIOS. — 00:53:48
  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says Esther, a Nerdfighter reader very sick with cancer when they met in 2009, taught him what Augustus learns: the real hero's journey goes from strength to weakness. — 00:54:11
  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — John says the realization that Esther's short life was still a good, rich and full life was central to The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:55:41
  • 2013-02-19 · Doing Things, On the Importance of — John's novel The Fault in Our Stars returned to number one on the New York Times bestseller list, 56 weeks after it came out. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-04-23 · DOCTOR GREEN — John says The Fault in Our Stars, fifteen months after publication, is back at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, passing Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being a Wallflower, now No. 2. — 00:02:22

2014

  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — John says the Brazilian edition of The Fault in Our Stars, whose title he butchers in Portuguese, has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Brazil, more than in Germany or the UK. — 00:03:16
  • 2014-02-18 · 18 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read — announcement: John reports that The Fault in Our Stars is number one on the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists this week (week of 17 February 2014), which he calls bananas. — 00:00:01

2016

2017

  • 2017-11-21 · Two Love Stories — John: On the January 2012 Fault in Our Stars tour, at a hotel ballroom outside Washington, DC, Nerdfighters Sara and Luis met before the show, hit it off and later began dating. — 00:00:11

2019

  • 2019-04-23 · untitled — John: The Fault in Our Stars was very nearly titled 'The Sequel' or 'The Sequels'; in April 2011 emails Julie told John, politely, that it was not a good title. — 00:01:27

2022

2023

2024

  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — John recalls the 2012 Fault in Our Stars tour: 32 consecutive nights at Holiday Inn Expresses, including a very nice one on a river outside Bend, Oregon; Hank doubts it was near Bend. — 00:53:22

2025

  • 2025-04-15 · Chatting with ... a U.S. Senator? — John explains the title writes against Shakespeare's line that the fault is not in our stars: there is much fault in our stars, bad luck and structural injustice. — 00:19:38
  • 2025-06-03 · My Lies — John says that before The Fault in Our Stars he confidently said on the channel his next book would be about kids on a desert island; he wrote most of it, but it had no reason for being, so he wrote the book that became The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:01:21
  • 2025-10-07 · Luck vs. Work vs. Skill vs. Privilege — John was especially lucky with The Fault in Our Stars: Nerdfighteria and his publisher backed it, adults were reading YA, Time called it the best book of the year, and the movie did well. — 00:03:16

2026

  • 2026-07-07 · On the Death of the Author — John: In The Fault in Our Stars John invented Peter Van Houten, an author who meets a dying young reader, knowing readers knew the book was partly inspired by his meeting Esther Earl. — 00:04:25
  • 2026-09-22 · I Want You to Know Nothing About This — John recalls that when The Fault in Our Stars came out 14 years ago, a few hundred people got it a month early, and he was devastated, expecting the plot to leak online. — 00:03:14
  • 2026-09-22 · I Want You to Know Nothing About This — John: Instead those early readers chose not to share the book, many waited until release day (2012) to read it, and it stayed unspoiled: one of the most generous acts of collective reading John has seen. — 00:03:43