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373 statements about Paper Towns in 158 videos, by upload date.

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  • 2008-01-08 · The Return of Question Tuesdays — announcement: John expects to tour a lot when Paper Towns comes out in September and says he will let viewers know about signings. (hedged) — 00:01:06
  • 2008-02-08 · QUESTION TUESDAYS (On Friday) — announcement: John gives Paper Towns' official release date as October 16th, joking that he had been lying when he said September. — 00:00:36
  • 2008-02-08 · QUESTION TUESDAYS (On Friday) — announcement: John says the figure on his bookshelf is his Black Santa, which will make sense when viewers read Paper Towns. — 00:03:36
  • 2008-02-21 · People Who Love Giraffes Who Love Giraffes — announcement: John: Asked why Maureen Johnson, who has read Paper Towns, can't talk about it, John says for the same reason Hank can't: it's secret. (playful) — 00:02:31
  • 2008-03-04 · SETTING THE QUESTION TUESDAY WORLD RECORD — announcement: John says there will be no character named Hollis in Paper Towns, though it is a funny question to hardcore fans of his books. — 00:02:22
  • 2008-04-14 · PAPER TOWNS-TACULAR — announcement: John's publisher has let him share the covers: Paper Towns will have two different covers with identical books inside, and readers can pick either. — 00:00:43
  • 2008-04-14 · PAPER TOWNS-TACULAR — John says a main reason for two covers is that the novel's girl character is radically misapprehended by everyone around her; the covers capture two of those misapprehensions. — 00:00:43
  • 2008-04-14 · PAPER TOWNS-TACULAR — announcement: John, nervous but liking both, reveals the covers: readers can choose yellow or blue, or order online and be surprised. — 00:01:12
  • 2008-04-14 · PAPER TOWNS-TACULAR — announcement: John shows an advance reader's copy of Paper Towns, printed about three days ago for librarians and reviewers before the book's October 16 publication. — 00:01:12
  • 2008-04-14 · PAPER TOWNS-TACULAR — announcement: John: Until publication John will give away as many ARCs to Nerdfighters as he can; today everyone commenting on YouTube or the Ning goes in a hat for this galley. — 00:01:41
  • 2008-04-21 · Belated Book-tacular Questions — announcement: John: Paper Towns is not dedicated to the Nerdfighters, but they are in the acknowledgements. — 00:00:53
  • 2008-04-21 · Belated Book-tacular Questions — John: Paper Towns is 308 pages long if the acknowledgements are counted. — 00:01:52
  • 2008-04-28 · Ranting and Giving Stuff Away — announcement: John doubles the Paper Towns giveaway: one advance copy to a random commenter on the Ning and one to a random commenter on YouTube. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-04-28 · Ranting and Giving Stuff Away — announcement: John draws random numbers to pick a Ning winner and a YouTube winner; the YouTube winner has 48 hours to claim the prize or it goes to someone else. — 00:00:40
  • 2008-05-06 · Hank Would Think This Is Awesome: The Project — announcement: John's tripod is a stack of new Paper Towns galleys; he will give an advance reader's copy to one Nerdfighter whose entry is included in the birthday project. — 00:01:50
  • 2008-05-11 · Nerdfighting IRL — Hank: At the event John read from Paper Towns and Maureen Johnson read from her new book Suite Scarlett, which Hank says viewers can buy via the sidebar. — 00:02:21
  • 2008-05-18 · A CUTETACULAR INTRODUCTION! — announcement: John: With every video this week (week of 12 May 2008), including this one, John will give away one copy of Paper Towns to a random commenter. — 00:02:47
  • 2008-05-19 · Three Things — announcement: John reveals that he and Hank have been working on a semi-secret wiki about lies rather than facts, Omnictionary, named after the Wikipedia-like reference source in Paper Towns; Hank acquired the domain. — 00:02:11
  • 2008-05-19 · Three Things — John explains the idea: just as Wikipedia is a user-created encyclopedia, Omnictionary can become a user-created novel, read in any order and written by everybody, though he doubts it will work. (hedged) — 00:02:44
  • 2008-05-19 · Three Things — John: So far most Omnictionary entries were written by John, Hank or a talented young writer named Johnson; the wiki's story differs from Paper Towns and has no beginning, middle or end. — 00:02:44
  • 2008-05-19 · Three Things — ask: John officially opens Omnictionary to the world and invites viewers to rewrite the story as they see fit, calling it a jokes opportunity for writers. — 00:03:13
  • 2008-05-20 · Guys Love Giraffe Love — John: Answering 'Who the F is Hank?', John says Hank is a tiny yellow songbird said to represent the soul of France, with an undetermined role in the Omnictionary Project. (joke) — 00:02:13
  • 2008-05-20 · Guys Love Giraffe Love — announcement: John reminds viewers there is one more Question Tuesday this week (week of 19 May 2008) and that he gives a Paper Towns copy to a random commenter every day; leave questions in comments. — 00:03:40
  • 2008-05-22 · Adorable Puppy Injury!!!! — announcement: Hank gives away a copy of Paper Towns to one random commenter, the first time he gets to give one away. — 00:03:19
  • 2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — announcement: John announces the five winners of Paper Towns advance copies from his punishment week, from the Ning and YouTube, and asks them to email their addresses. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — John says Nerdfighters on Omnictionary are writing a novel wiki-style; the wished-for Nerdfighter encyclopedia is a good idea, but not for Omnictionary. (hedged) — 00:02:19
  • 2008-06-16 · Maine Inspires Deep Thoughts — announcement: Hank announces that he and John are starting a temporary project, Obama's Idiots, about the 2008 presidential race, at youtube.com/obamasidiots. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-06-16 · Maine Inspires Deep Thoughts — announcement: Hank: During the project the brothers will raise money for Democratic candidates and, when goals are reached, do painful or embarrassing things; Hank has not yet got John to agree to that part. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-06-16 · Maine Inspires Deep Thoughts — announcement: Hank says John will deliver political commentary and news, while Hank will punish himself in return for donations to Barack Obama and other Democrats, starting with Daniel Biss. — 00:00:40
  • 2008-07-08 (said on 2008-07-07, implied) · Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer — announcement: John has no Paper Towns advance copies to give away; earlier winners are still waiting for theirs, which he hopes to rectify tomorrow. (hedged) — 00:03:22
  • 2008-07-08 (said on 2008-07-07, implied) · Hank Tried to Kill Me With a Hammer — ask: John offers three rare Paper Towns discussion guides, which he jokes he stole from his publisher, to viewers who leave a question in comments for his next Question Tuesday. — 00:03:32
  • 2008-07-18 · Book Eight...Another Harry Potter Song — Hank proposes joke titles for Book 8, such as 'Harry Potter and the Paper Towns' and 'Harry Potter and the nerdfighters'. (joke) — 00:02:57
  • 2008-07-30 · Audiobooks and 8 8 08 — John shows himself recording the dedication, author's note and acknowledgements of Paper Towns for the audiobook, including Hank's name and the word Nerdfighters. — 00:01:17
  • 2008-07-30 · Audiobooks and 8 8 08 — John went to Grand Haven to see the Paper Towns audiobook recorded and toured the process: engineers at the dials, editing out breaths, and the plant making physical copies. — 00:01:38
  • 2008-08-06 · Question Tuesday Returns (on a Wednesday) — John: Asked why the new An Abundance of Katherines paperback costs only $3.99, John says books are generally too expensive, he would rather have readers than money, and it thanks readers in advance for buying Paper Towns. (hedged) — 00:00:45
  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — announcement: John shows the first two finished copies of Paper Towns, which has two different covers (happy Margo and sad Margo) with the same book inside. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — announcement: John says he will answer why Paper Towns has two covers in his next video, devoted to questions about Paper Towns and the tour. — 00:00:42
  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — ask: John asks viewers to say in comments which of the two covers they prefer, calling it an extremely unscientific study. (hedged) — 00:00:42
  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — announcement: John announces an October 16 New York launch party for Paper Towns' release with Hank, their parents, the Yeti, Maureen Johnson and other authors; Julia Nunes is floated as a 'rumor'. — 00:01:12
  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — announcement: John announces the Paper Towns tour stops from October 17 to 30: Boston, Indianapolis, Columbus, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, Chicago suburbs and city, Phoenix, Seattle, San Francisco, and a Nerdfighter Halloween party in Los Angeles. — 00:01:43
  • 2008-09-04 · Paper Towns Tour Dates! — John says much of Paper Towns is set in Orlando, Florida. — 00:02:13
  • 2008-09-13 · Hank Vlogs (and a String Quartet) — announcement: Hank tells John that Paper Towns is not going to be published in the United Kingdom, which angers many UK Nerdfighters. — 00:02:29
  • 2008-09-13 · Hank Vlogs (and a String Quartet) — ask: Hank asks UK Nerdfighters only to email their name, age and location to a Gmail address, whose login he would give UK publishers to show demand. — 00:03:01
  • 2008-09-13 · Hank Vlogs (and a String Quartet) — Hank thinks no publisher could refuse a big list of ready buyers and that UK Nerdfighters can get Paper Towns published in the UK quickly. (hedged) — 00:03:30
  • 2008-09-21 · The Pwning of Oprah — announcement: John says details of the Paper Towns tour dates are starting to be posted at eventful.com. — 00:03:15
  • 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday — announcement: John says Paper Towns comes out in 22 days, on October 16, and repeats the date several times. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday — announcement: John says the events are entirely free and open to the public, and tickets are not needed except in a couple of cases. — 00:01:41
  • 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday — announcement: John says Julia Nunes will not be at the New York event but will be at the Boston event. — 00:02:10
  • 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday — John does not know the girl on the Paper Towns cover personally but helped pick her; he says she is Canadian. — 00:02:10
  • 2008-09-23 · Paper Towns and Touring Question Tuesday — John explains the two Paper Towns covers: each represents a misimagining of the person on it, and since both are fundamentally wrong, neither can be superior. — 00:02:52
  • 2008-09-25 (said on 2008-09-24, implied) · Obama llama Duck — Hank explains that his old idea of the brothers punishing themselves for donations to Obama's campaign was dropped: good, but not achievable alongside Nerdfighters, EcoGeek and Paper Towns. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-09-25 (said on 2008-09-24, implied) · Obama llama Duck — announcement: Hank says he and John have almost finished the Paper Towns tour dates; a tour list with RSVPs will soon be at sparksflyup.com (John's site) and nerdfighters.com. — 00:02:08
  • 2008-09-25 (said on 2008-09-24, implied) · Obama llama Duck — ask: Hank asks viewers to pre-order Paper Towns, not yet out, to make John happy and read a really good book; the link is in the sidebar. — 00:02:41
  • 2008-10-06 · Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) — announcement: John: With Hank's help, all Paper Towns and Nerdfighting Tour events are now on Facebook with up-to-date information; Eventful.com, now their 'mortal enemy', is dropped. — 00:02:20
  • 2008-10-06 · Berlin and Let it Snow (in Your Pants) — announcement: John says his new book Paper Towns comes out in ten days. — 00:03:22
  • 2008-10-08 (said on 2008-10-07, implied) · Hanks actual Vlog — announcement: Hank has coloured Karen's map and put it on PaperTowns.com: each city links to its Facebook event page, and the brothers' heads to their Facebook profiles. — 00:01:33
  • 2008-10-08 · J Scribble Goes to Borders — John: Searching YouTube for Paper Towns, John found groups of Nerdfighters slipping notes into his books in bookstores inviting readers to Paper Towns and Nerdfighter gatherings; he calls it fantastic and will copy it. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-08 · J Scribble Goes to Borders — ask: In the description, John notes that Paper Towns is reaching some shelves early and asks readers to wait until October 16 if they can, though he understands if not. — video description
  • 2008-10-08 · J Scribble Goes to Borders — John: To avoid using new paper, John cuts pages of the Paper Towns manuscript into quarters, including blank page 308, and writes on them. (playful) — 00:00:48
  • 2008-10-08 · J Scribble Goes to Borders — John's cards invite readers to meet the author at the store on October 18, say they may be a nerdfighter, which is a good thing, and are signed 'Jay Scribble'. — 00:01:17
  • 2008-10-08 · J Scribble Goes to Borders — John: At the Borders in Indianapolis where he will sign in ten days, John plants the cards in his books while filming, joking he fears being arrested. (playful) — 00:01:47
  • 2008-10-09 · Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow — announcement: Hank says Paper Towns comes out in less than a week, but some bookstores are not following the rules set for its release. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-09 · Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow — announcement: Hank says people who pre-ordered Paper Towns from Barnes & Noble have already received the book, well ahead of release. — 00:00:31
  • 2008-10-09 · Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow — Hank is glad for Nerdfighters who got early copies as a prize for pre-ordering and thanks them; Amazon customers can feel good, since Amazon followed the publisher's wishes. — 00:00:31
  • 2008-10-09 · Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow — announcement: Hank says the brothers will be at the New York City launch event, viewers can RSVP on Facebook via papertowns.com, and he hopes to see many across the US through November. — 00:02:48
  • 2008-10-11 (said on 2008-10-10, implied) · Question Friday — announcement: John: Asked, John says Paper Towns will be out in Canada at the same time as in the United States. — 00:00:29
  • 2008-10-11 (said on 2008-10-10, implied) · Question Friday — John says Paper Towns comes out in six days and is the culmination of two and a half years of his life. (playful) — 00:01:43
  • 2008-10-11 (said on 2008-10-10, implied) · Question Friday — announcement: John: At the Nerdfighter gatherings, John says, songs will be sung, Paper Towns read, books discussed, questions answered and stuff signed. — 00:02:37
  • 2008-10-11 (said on 2008-10-10, implied) · Question Friday — John is not thrilled that Paper Towns is being sold early in some places but says there is nothing he can do about it. — 00:02:37
  • 2008-10-11 (said on 2008-10-10, implied) · Question Friday — announcement: John will sign books other than Paper Towns on tour, anything except skin. — 00:03:15
  • 2008-10-11 (said on 2008-10-10, implied) · Question Friday — announcement: John will see Hank in real life at the Paper Towns release party on Thursday. — 00:03:15
  • 2008-10-14 · Paper Towns Reading — announcement: John tells Hank he will read from his new book Paper Towns, which comes out on Thursday, over his next couple of videos. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-14 · Paper Towns Reading — John starts with the prologue, which he read several months earlier in a very different form, offering it as a possible insight into revision. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-14 · Paper Towns Reading — John: Paper Towns opens with two epigraphs, one from a poem written by a nerdfighter, Katrina Vandenberg. — 00:00:56
  • 2008-10-14 · Paper Towns Reading — John: In the reading, the narrator says everyone gets one unlikely miracle, and his was growing up next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman. (fiction) — 00:00:56
  • 2008-10-14 · Paper Towns Reading — John: The prologue ends with the narrator thinking Margo loved mysteries so much that she became one; part one is called The Strings. (fiction) — 00:08:59
  • 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — announcement: Hank says John's book Paper Towns comes out tomorrow, October 16th, its official release date. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — Hank lists Paper Towns activities: a new Twitter stream of fake Paper Towns spoilers, and a Paper Towns cake baked for John by a Five Awesome Girls member. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — announcement: Hank and several nerdfighters have recorded Paper Towns songs for a Paper Towns collaborative album, which they are giving away for free. — 00:00:34
  • 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — ask: Hank: First condition for the album: make a picture of yourself with Paper Towns your MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and every other profile picture. — 00:00:58
  • 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — ask: Hank: Second: buy Paper Towns at a local bookstore and leave notes in copies saying how much you love it, like a blurb but from a normal reader rather than a reviewer. — 00:01:27
  • 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — ask: Hank: Third: comment on the video and send an email saying you have done all of this, to get download access to the album. — 00:01:27
  • 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — announcement: Hank: Those who qualify can also pay $3, the cost of making and shipping the CD, for a hard copy. — 00:01:56
  • 2008-10-16 (said on 2008-10-15, implied) · Paper Towns Collab Album Project!!! — Hank playfully says that despite the presidential election he can only think about Paper Towns, whose release is on the scale of buying his first house. (playful) — 00:01:56
  • 2008-10-17 · Vital Status Report from NYC — John reports from the Paper Towns release party with Liane from the Five Awesome Girls, his agent Jodi, Hank's wife Katherine, and Alex and Charlie from London. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-17 · Vital Status Report from NYC — John says Paper Towns is about people who constantly misimagine each other because they think of one another as something other than a person. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-17 · Vital Status Report from NYC — Alex Day: Alex says that after finishing Paper Towns and seeing it would launch in New York, he asked Charlie to come and booked tickets leaving in about two and a half days. — 00:02:03
  • 2008-10-17 · Vital Status Report from NYC — a guest: In a comic bit, a guest who has not read Paper Towns claims it is about paper, sounds like a picture book, and will be a movie with Tom Cruise playing the towns. (joke) — 00:02:32
  • 2008-10-17 · Vital Status Report from NYC — Hank says he is now in Boston before another Nerdfighter event and will soon see John at dinner with their parents and cousin. — 00:03:02
  • 2008-10-21 (said on 2008-10-20, implied) · Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely — John, on the Paper Towns tour, is in Columbus, Ohio, super tired after a long day of touring. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-21 (said on 2008-10-20, implied) · Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely — John tells Hank he is awesome: the two days they just spent together in New York and Boston were the most awesome of his life. (playful) — 00:00:33
  • 2008-10-21 (said on 2008-10-20, implied) · Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely — announcement: John: Later this week (week of 20 October 2008) John will be in Atlanta, where the show starts at 6, not 6:30 (people should probably come early), then Miami, Orlando and Naperville. (hedged) — 00:01:02
  • 2008-10-21 (said on 2008-10-20, implied) · Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely — ask: John says everyone should come to the Naperville event, which will be big, fun and awesome. — 00:01:02
  • 2008-10-21 (said on 2008-10-20, implied) · Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely — announcement: John will also do a smaller Saturday 4 p.m. event at a bookstore in Lincoln Square, Chicago, giving tickets to the first 45 people who email. — 00:01:02
  • 2008-10-21 (said on 2008-10-20, implied) · Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely — announcement: John will stream every event on BlogTV for the rest of the tour, for Hank and nerdfighters who cannot attend. — 00:02:42
  • 2008-10-21 (said on 2008-10-20, implied) · Travel Tips, Delivered Hoarsely — announcement: John: Nerdfighter gift exchange: gifts nerdfighters give the tour will be passed on to nerdfighters at the next stop, keeping John's luggage carry-on. — 00:02:42
  • 2008-10-21 · Lonesome Cloud — announcement: Hank: Many people are now eligible for the Paper Towns collab album; the album is ready, the digital version goes online soon and everyone eligible will be emailed. — 00:02:17
  • 2008-10-21 · Lonesome Cloud — Hank expected 50 or 60 people in total to take part but it has been about 50 or 60 a day, hundreds overall; he thanks them and asks them to continue. — 00:02:17
  • 2008-10-21 · Lonesome Cloud — Hank wishes John a good time in Melbourne, Florida the next day. — 00:03:43
  • 2008-10-22 · Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE. — John: Students at Vero Beach High School gave John a shirt with all the things he loves on it. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-22 · Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE. — John: Vero Beach High School nerdfighters gave John every item Lacey, Ben, Q and Radar pick up at their first BP stop in Paper Towns, including Nerds; he says it is no spoiler. — 00:01:24
  • 2008-10-22 · Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE. — John marvels that something that existed only in his imagination now exists on his hotel bed, calling it the whole thematic structure of Paper Towns. (playful) — 00:01:33
  • 2008-10-22 · Punish Hank? Save Hank? YOU DECIDE. — announcement: John hopes to see nerdfighters tonight in Miami, tomorrow in Orlando or on Friday in Naperville, Illinois. — 00:03:43
  • 2008-10-24 · Talking to Myself — announcement: Hank: John found out he will debut at number five on the New York Times bestseller list for young adult fiction. — 00:01:07
  • 2008-10-24 · Talking to Myself — Hank says Paper Towns so deserves to be a bestseller and he is so excited that it is. — 00:02:27
  • 2008-10-24 · Talking to Myself — Hank: John told Hank the Florida nerdfighter event had a fantastic atmosphere; Hank's best friend from high school and John's elementary-school best friends were there. — 00:02:27
  • 2008-10-24 · IRON MAN BLOGTV CHALLENGE! — announcement: Hank says he may read some of Paper Towns on the stream. (hedged) — 00:00:30
  • 2008-10-24 · IRON MAN BLOGTV CHALLENGE! — ask: Hank invites viewers who want to be his Facebook friend, and give him something to do during the challenge, to go to the Paper Towns site and click on his head. — 00:01:17
  • 2008-10-24 · Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11! — announcement: John thanks Hank and the Nerdfighters for making it possible for Paper Towns to debut at number five on the New York Times bestseller list next week (week of 27 October 2008). — 00:00:51
  • 2008-10-24 · Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11! — announcement: John announces that the movie rights to Paper Towns have been optioned by Mandate and Mr. Mudd, the people who made Juno. — 00:01:21
  • 2008-10-24 · Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11! — John says hanging out with 200 Nerdfighters last night, with hundreds more watching on BlogTV, is the nicest gift he has ever been given. (hedged) — 00:01:50
  • 2008-10-24 · Paper Towns MOVIE1!!!11! — ask: John: In solidarity with Hank's punishment and in gratitude, John asks Nerdfighteria what he can do for them, offering examples, and asks for answers in comments. — 00:01:50
  • 2008-10-28 (said on 2008-10-27, implied) · Early Voting with Hank — announcement: Hank says he flies to Seattle tomorrow, where he will see John and many Nerdfighters, and urges people near Seattle to come. — 00:00:44
  • 2008-10-28 (said on 2008-10-27, implied) · Early Voting with Hank — announcement: Hank says John then goes on alone: Menlo Park on the 29th and a final Paper Towns Halloween special on October 30th for anyone in the western United States. — 00:00:44
  • 2008-10-28 (said on 2008-10-27, implied) · Early Voting with Hank — announcement: Hank names Paper Towns the new Blurbing Book Club book after a long gap since the last pick. — 00:02:20
  • 2008-10-28 (said on 2008-10-27, implied) · Early Voting with Hank — ask: Hank asks viewers to capture the essence of Paper Towns in a blurb of ten words or less that John would be proud to put on the back of his book. — 00:02:20
  • 2008-10-28 (said on 2008-10-27, implied) · Early Voting with Hank — announcement: Hank says a Nerdfighter blurb on the back of the book would be cool, though he does not know if it can be worked out with the publisher. (hedged) — 00:02:20
  • 2008-10-28 · The Unzipped Zipper (Of Your Pants) — John recalls that in his last video he asked Nerdfighters what he could do for them after they put Paper Towns on the New York Times bestseller list, and they sent requests. — 00:00:34
  • 2008-10-28 · The Unzipped Zipper (Of Your Pants) — John: Asked to make sure a Paper Towns movie doesn't ruin the book, John says a movie can't ruin a book: All the King's Men is still great despite Sean Penn's unconvincing accent. (hedged) — 00:01:18
  • 2008-10-28 · The Unzipped Zipper (Of Your Pants) — John: Asked to get Walmart to stock Paper Towns, John argues buying books at Walmart is a bad idea: if everyone did, only about 30 to 50 books would be published a year, chilling American cultural discourse. — 00:03:05
  • 2008-10-28 · The Unzipped Zipper (Of Your Pants) — John finds one request he can fulfil, recording his happy dance in 18 different states, and says yes. (playful) — 00:03:37
  • 2008-10-28 · The Unzipped Zipper (Of Your Pants) — announcement: John says he will see Hank in a few minutes at the Seattle Public Library. — 00:03:52
  • 2008-10-30 (said on 2008-10-29, implied) · Hank is Late (dr horrible) — Hank and Katherine just got back from the Seattle event; Hank thanks the Nerdfighters there and thinks the library never had a bigger crowd. (hedged) — 00:00:54
  • 2008-10-30 (said on 2008-10-29, implied) · Hank is Late (dr horrible) — announcement: Hank announces Paper Towns will spend a second week on the New York Times bestseller list, at number six, showing people beyond the first Nerdfighter rush are still buying it. — 00:01:23
  • 2008-10-30 (said on 2008-10-29, implied) · Hank is Late (dr horrible) — announcement: Hank says Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was produced by the same production company that optioned Paper Towns. — 00:01:52
  • 2008-10-30 (said on 2008-10-29, implied) · Hank is Late (dr horrible) — announcement: Hank says John may be writing the Paper Towns screenplay for the people who made Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. (hedged) — 00:01:52
  • 2008-10-31 (said on 2008-10-30, implied) · Show 'n Tell Thursday — John devotes Show and Tell Thursday to real presents Nerdfighters gave him on his tour, of two kinds: related to his book, and related to Nerdfighters. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-10-31 (said on 2008-10-30, implied) · Show 'n Tell Thursday — John: Book-related presents include a dreidel (John recalls the minivan is called that), a Black Santa with 'do not forget to be awesome' on his hand, and a 'real-life minivan' from Phoenix. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-03 · Hank and John from the Road — John, driving through Missouri, says the minivan is the same one Q's mom owns in Paper Towns, one reason they picked it for the tour. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-03 · BlogTV in St Louis! — announcement: Hank: On the stream viewers can watch John give his talk and Hank sing his songs, and John will read from Paper Towns. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-05 · On Loving One Another or Dying — John opens with 20 seconds of Hank singing in front of many Nerdfighters in Louisville, a song only available on the Paper Towns secret collaboration album. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-05 · On Loving One Another or Dying — John says it is fun when he makes something up and someone else makes something up about the thing he made up. — 00:00:00
  • 2008-11-05 · On Loving One Another or Dying — John: Afterwards John read from the part of Paper Towns that inspired the song and ranted about the importance of imagining the other with more complexity. — 00:00:58
  • 2008-11-05 · On Loving One Another or Dying — John says the problem with finding Margo, for Q and the other characters, is not the mystery: they don't see Margo, only a funhouse-mirror reflection of themselves. — 00:00:58
  • 2008-11-07 · Vlogging from Gadsden — Hank shows John's signing table (John has wandered off, gets a big chair while Hank gets a little one), stacks of John's books, Nerdfighter shirts, and Katherine reading Paper Towns. (playful) — 00:00:46
  • 2008-11-19 · Sharing Presents in Westport — John: A speaker says no one would dance with him at a dancing school, calling it the only semi-autobiographical thing in Paper Towns. (playful) — 00:01:46
  • 2008-12-26 · Skoodilypooping — announcement: John says that to wrap up the Paper Towns edition of the Nerdfighter Blurbing Book Club he will do two videos about the book, ideally answering questions. — 00:02:36
  • 2008-12-26 · Skoodilypooping — ask: John asks Hank and Nerdfighters to leave any questions about Paper Towns in the comments. — 00:02:36

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2009

  • 2009-01-27 · Before Looking for Alaska… — John signs off saying he has to go back to writing the Paper Towns screenplay. — 00:02:56
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John finally answers real Nerdfighters' questions about his new book Paper Towns, for the Nerdfighter Blurbing Book Club per the description. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-02-10 · 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
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John: The Paper Towns movie rights were acquired by Mr. Mudd and Mandate, the people behind Juno. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — announcement: The description says several more questions will be answered in a video on Friday or Saturday. — video description
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John does not know whether Paper Towns will be a movie; he is writing the screenplay, so it is up to him whether it is good enough. (hedged) — 00:00:46
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John: Margo is the book's mirror maker: people looking at her see a funhouse-mirror reflection of themselves, not what is true of her, hence the two different, equally inaccurate covers. — 00:00:46
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John: Asked by a 20-year-old whether they are too old for the book, John says no: that day an 82-year-old woman emailed that she liked it. — 00:00:46
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John: On colours: the book has much Moby-Dick in it (white imagery, Black Santas, Margo's middle name meaning red); like Melville, John wanted to subvert white as a symbol of purity and put Margo outside the good/evil dichotomy. (hedged) — 00:01:51
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — announcement: John: The Paper Towns paperback will be out at the end of this year (2009). — 00:02:36
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — ask: John: The paperback will probably not have either current cover, so John tells viewers who want these covers to get them now. (hedged) — 00:02:36
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John: The book is about how we misimagine other people and our stories; Radar's parents own the world's largest Black Santa collection because John finds it funny and it asks us to imagine the world more complexly. (hedged) — 00:02:36
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John: Paper Towns shares many of The Great Gatsby's questions, above all whether there is such a thing as the self-made man; John then jokingly declines the 'modern-day Gatsby' label. — 00:03:05
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John: Alternate titles: 'More Light Than Heat', from a line in Hamlet, and 'Under the Red, the White, and the Blue', one of Fitzgerald's alternate titles for Gatsby. — 00:03:27
  • 2009-02-10 · Paper Towns Tastic Question Tuesday — John thanks Nerdfighters for reading Paper Towns and responding with thoughtfulness and depth, which reminds him why he loves his job. — 00:03:27
  • 2009-02-21 (said on 2009-02-14, implied) · Paper Towns and PUPPY — John: In a bonus video, helped by Willy and pre-recorded questions from 'past John', John answers Paper Towns questions he didn't get to in his last video. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-02-21 (said on 2009-02-14, implied) · Paper Towns and PUPPY — announcement: John: On Thursday, March 19th, John will be in Amsterdam for the launch of the Dutch edition of Paper Towns. — 00:00:30
  • 2009-02-21 (said on 2009-02-14, implied) · Paper Towns and PUPPY — John says writing Paper Towns took about three years. — 00:01:00
  • 2009-02-21 (said on 2009-02-14, implied) · Paper Towns and PUPPY — announcement: John: Paper Towns is out in Australia, though apparently hard to find, and is coming out in a number of other countries. — 00:01:45
  • 2009-02-21 (said on 2009-02-14, implied) · Paper Towns and PUPPY — John: There are Paper Towns references in Brotherhood 2.0, not the reverse: viewers shared the last year and a half of writing and revision, so they saw what he was thinking about. — 00:01:45
  • 2009-03-10 · How to Get Girls to Like You — John says his first draft of the Paper Towns screenplay is due in three days, so he lacks time to break the Question Tuesday world record. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-03-18 · Lighting Candles for Rwanda — Hank has heard John's screenplay is finished and going over well with his 'Hollywood overlord'; he is excited about it and about seeing Netherlands footage. (hedged) — 00:02:14
  • 2009-03-22 · John Loves Amsterdam — John: A Dutch journalist told John she had read Paper Towns in English and Dutch and found the Dutch version much better, because it was funnier. — 00:02:30
  • 2009-03-22 · John Loves Amsterdam — ask: John urges Nerdfighters who read Dutch to buy Paper Towns in Dutch so his publisher Lemniscaat brings him back to Holland for more bitterballen. (playful) — 00:02:46
  • 2009-03-24 · Peeps! Prom! Puppy! — John has a busy week turning around two revisions, one on a book he is writing and one on a movie, so eating 300+ Peeps in a day would hurt his productivity. — 00:00:24
  • 2009-04-14 · The World's Largest Balls — John says he is something of an expert on the world's largest balls because the first draft of Paper Towns was largely devoted to them; only a small vestige remains in the book. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-04-14 · The World's Largest Balls — John: Noting that two major balls of twine have mailboxes, John writes the ball of twine a letter: it says something interesting about America, but he couldn't figure out what, so he cut it from his novel. (playful) — 00:02:47
  • 2009-04-21 · Question Tuesday — announcement: John confirms an awesome Nerdfighter gathering from 2 p.m. in Melbourne on May 31 to promote the Australian edition of Paper Towns; booking and details are in the sidebar. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-04-21 · Question Tuesday — John: Paper Towns may become a movie: the people who made Juno optioned the rights with John writing the screenplay, which he is working on now. (hedged) — 00:02:04
  • 2009-04-28 · 10 Book Reviews in 4 Minutes — announcement: Hank says John, bestselling author of Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines, is writing another book, This Is Not Tom, released through weekly riddles. — 00:02:38
  • 2009-05-04 (said on 2009-05-03, implied) · Oinkbarf Pandemic! An Intellectual Response to Swine Flu — John's Paper Towns won an Edgar Award on Thursday night, given by the Mystery Writers of America to the year's best mystery novels, so he now owns a bust of Poe. — 00:00:27
  • 2009-06-07 · I Will Call Him Louis: Australia Rocks! — John says that in Melbourne he attended the Reading Matters conference, where actors performed a series of scenes from Paper Towns. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-08-06 (said on 2009-08-05, implied) · Robert Pattinson and DJ Railstone — John, author of Paper Towns, says he is a little obsessed with how fictional things can become real, so he liked Paige's idea. — 00:01:49
  • 2009-08-11 · The Island of Nerdfighteria? — announcement: John announces that Paper Towns will be published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury, and thanks Bloomsbury. — 00:01:01
  • 2009-08-24 · HAPPY JOHN DAY!!! — The description lists category picks from the birthday submissions (best cake, drawing, blended cake, activity, furthest away). — video description
  • 2009-08-25 · The Gift of Gary Busey — announcement: John announces Paper Towns is nominated for a Teens' Top Ten award and invites teens to vote for it or other books. — 00:02:38
  • 2009-08-30 · 100 QUESTIONS ANSWERED!!!!!!! — announcement: John: Asked whether Paper Towns will be published in France, John answers in French that he thinks so. (hedged) — 00:00:22
  • 2009-09-08 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) — announcement: John announces the Paper Towns paperback comes out September 22 and asks those who haven't read it to pick it up or pre-order it via the sidebar. — 00:01:36
  • 2009-09-08 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) — announcement: John: To celebrate, John will give away one Paper Towns paperback a day for 14 days to his favourite 10-word comment on YouTube or the Ning. — 00:01:36
  • 2009-09-08 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) — announcement: John says he will read all the comments in a special video, and his favourite comment overall will win an additional prize he shows. — 00:01:36
  • 2009-09-08 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) — John says the Paper Towns movie rights were acquired by Mr. Mudd and Mandate (makers of Juno); he wrote the first screenplay draft and is starting the first big revision. — 00:02:08
  • 2009-09-08 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) — announcement: John asks fans to be patient about the movie and hopes to have more of an update soon. (hedged) — 00:02:08
  • 2009-09-08 · My Puppy's SECRET SHAME (and Paper Towns) — John thanks everyone who has read or listened to Paper Towns in any language: books never feel finished until people read them, which lets him start a new one. — 00:02:35
  • 2009-09-09 · Television Crime Shows Suck — ask: Hank reminds viewers that leaving John's favourite 10-word comment of the day wins a free Paper Towns paperback. — 00:03:20
  • 2009-09-12 (said on 2009-09-11, implied) · Special Friday Video! (On Saturday) — announcement: John expands the paperback giveaway to Paper Towns-related videos and songs as well as 10-word comments, and admits he has more than 14 books. — 00:02:51
  • 2009-09-12 (said on 2009-09-11, implied) · Special Friday Video! (On Saturday) — John names four winners from the contest's first three days and reads their comments, one of which, saying his books changed her life, moved him. — 00:03:20
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — announcement: John announces that Paper Towns comes out in paperback today, Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — John credits their commitment and organization with putting Paper Towns on the New York Times bestseller list, thanks them for gifts, and says the tour let him meet Nerdfighters. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — John says Paper Towns is coming out in many countries and won the Edgar Award, and that none of it would have happened without Nerdfighters. — 00:00:47
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — John says he is writing a screenplay for the people who made Juno, and at the end leaves to work on the Paper Towns screenplay. — 00:00:47
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — John thanks Nerdfighters for reading Paper Towns, giving it to friends and making cakes of the paperback cover. — 00:00:47
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — John says cover changes make him nervous, but he likes the Paper Towns paperback cover, and a Nerdfighter picture won him over to the Abundance of Katherines paperback cover. — 00:01:16
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — John says Paper Towns used to cost about $18 and the paperback costs $9.99. — 00:01:16
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — ask: John tells viewers to buy the paperback via the sidebar link or at any bookstore in America, and to ask a bookseller to order it if it is not in stock. — 00:01:45
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — announcement: John says he needs 15 copies of the paperback by Friday (25 September 2009), when he will announce the winners of the 10-word challenge contest. — 00:01:45
  • 2009-09-22 · Paper Towns in Paperback: A How-to Guide — John congratulates Paper Towns' editor Julie Strauss-Gabel on the birth of her daughter. — 00:03:07
  • 2009-09-23 · Where's Margo! A Nerdfighter Event! — Hank jokes that Margo Roth Spiegelman escaped John's head, and says he asked Nerdfighters to photograph her wherever they saw her, and they complied. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2009-09-23 · Where's Margo! A Nerdfighter Event! — Hank: The song retells Paper Towns: Margo disappears, the searchers follow her tracks, and in searching for her you find yourself instead. (fiction) — 00:00:34
  • 2009-09-23 · Where's Margo! A Nerdfighter Event! — recommendation: Hank: The song says to learn what happens you must buy the book, and hopes the paperback yields a Margo one can understand and love complexly. (playful) — 00:02:15
  • 2009-09-23 · Where's Margo! A Nerdfighter Event! — recommendation: Hank urges viewers who don't have Paper Towns to buy it, calling it awesome and his favorite John Green book ever. — 00:03:45
  • 2009-09-27 · TV For Chickens — announcement: John says he will announce several exciting things tomorrow, including the winners of the Paper Towns paperbacks. — 00:02:37
  • 2009-09-28 · Paper Towns Winners and Ningmasters — announcement: John announces the last ten Paper Towns paperback winners: a song-challenge winner chosen from many great songs, and nine 10-word comment winners. — 00:01:40
  • 2009-09-28 · Paper Towns Winners and Ningmasters — John: Reading a lolspeak comment built on a Woody Guthrie line he used in Paper Towns, John says Guthrie could not have imagined it. (playful) — 00:02:18
  • 2009-09-28 · Paper Towns Winners and Ningmasters — announcement: John says there were more than 15,000 entries, a 1 in 1,000 chance of winning, apologizes to non-winners and hopes they still consider getting the book. — 00:02:18
  • 2009-09-28 · Paper Towns Winners and Ningmasters — John plays part of the winning Paper Towns song, whose lyrics describe someone hiding in a paper town for weeks. — 00:03:04
  • 2009-10-20 · The Bella Twins Like Paper Towns — announcement: John recalls that YALSA, the American Library Association's branch, named Paper Towns one of 25 finalists for the Teens' Top Ten, an award voted on by teens. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-10-20 · The Bella Twins Like Paper Towns — announcement: John announces that Paper Towns won the Teens' Top Ten vote, beating great books like The Hunger Games, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and the last Twilight book. — 00:00:29
  • 2009-10-20 · The Bella Twins Like Paper Towns — John says that because he won, the Bella Twins, professional wrestlers, held his book and said his name. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 2009-10-20 · The Bella Twins Like Paper Towns — John credits the power of Nerdfighters for the win and thanks them for voting for Paper Towns. — 00:00:29
  • 2009-10-20 · The Bella Twins Like Paper Towns — announcement: John shows the celebration video he made for YALSA, a skit in which he poses as a professional wrestler voted teens' favourite until a voice corrects him. (playful) — 00:00:29
  • 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. (playful) — 00:00:58
  • 2009-10-20 · The Bella Twins Like Paper Towns — John thanks the teens who took part and the librarians who get great books to kids; the award means most because teenagers choose it, and he deeply respects teens as readers. — 00:01:27
  • 2009-11-01 · NaNoWriMo!!! — John's examples from revision: Miles' obsession with famous last words in Looking for Alaska, the feral-hog hunt in An Abundance of Katherines, and the cartography in Paper Towns. — 00:01:29
  • 2009-11-17 · Question Tuesday: The Free Money Edition — John: Asked whether Ben in Paper Towns is based on someone from his high school, John says the character is based on himself. — 00:00:00
  • 2009-11-17 · Question Tuesday: The Free Money Edition — John says he is 10,000 words behind on NaNoWriMo because of the Paper Towns screenplay revision, and behind on the screenplay because of NaNoWriMo. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2009-12-27 · How To Be a Nerdfighter: A Vlogbrothers FAQ — Hank says John is an award-winning author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns who has won awards including the Edgar and the Printz. — 00:00:49

2010

  • 2010-02-03 (said on 2010-02-04, implied) · Win The Awesomest Prizes EVAR! — Hank: Living in a small college town means books arrive late: Hank waited two weeks for Paper Towns, and his local independent bookseller promises the sequel by Friday (5 February 2010). — 00:00:00
  • 2010-06-11 · Mmmm....PARTS — announcement: John's new website, JohnGreenBooks.com, lists forthcoming Nerdfighter gatherings and other events, in places like Washington, D.C., Munich, Edinburgh and London. — 00:02:17
  • 2010-06-11 · Mmmm....PARTS — announcement: John: Paper Towns has just been published in the United Kingdom. — 00:02:17
  • 2010-06-11 · Mmmm....PARTS — ask: John asks people to buy Paper Towns in the UK, joking that otherwise no other book of his will ever be published there. (playful) — 00:02:17
  • 2010-07-28 · Umbrellas Amuse Me: Observations from One Day in Munich — John: In a Munich bookstore that stocked his books, John met a reader buying an English copy of Paper Towns; he had never been recognised while looking for his own books, and was embarrassed but delighted. — 00:00:58
  • 2010-08-16 · Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh — announcement: The description says John's UK trip was to support Paper Towns, which had just been published there. — video description
  • 2010-08-16 · Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh — announcement: John thanks everyone who gathered in London and Edinburgh and says he can't wait to come back to the UK. — video description
  • 2010-08-16 · Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh — John: In London a department store 'ordered' John to lust for a red purse; he mocks a consumer mania in which wanting a handbag no longer suffices and you must be sexually attracted to it. (playful) — 00:00:02
  • 2010-08-16 · Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh — John visited Alex Day and Charlie McDonnell at their flat: Charlie made tea, Alex read a quiz from Pick Me Up magazine, to which he has a two-year subscription, and they watched YouTube. — 00:00:02
  • 2010-08-16 · Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh — John: At Piccadilly Circus John met Ningmaster Tom, Lidewij and Nerdfighter Tobias, to whom his half of Will Grayson, Will Grayson is dedicated; they went to Funland, mostly simulated murder. — 00:00:42
  • 2010-08-16 · Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh — John met many nerdfighters at a bookstore who said good morning to Hank; one had a ukulele version of Hank's guitar and many were in the PEN15 Club. — 00:01:12
  • 2010-08-16 · Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh — John: With his secret sister Rosianna, John went to an East End basement club to read while three musicians, including Tom Milsom and Alex Day, played. — 00:01:12
  • 2010-08-16 · Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh — John feared nobody would come to the club, which rarely hosts book signings, but too many came, so they held two shows, one in the club and one upstairs; a magical night for him. — 00:01:12
  • 2010-08-16 · Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh — John: After staying up almost all night, John took a train to Edinburgh, where nerdfighters on a beautiful hill said good morning to Hank and songsfrompaul sang. — 00:02:00
  • 2010-08-20 · The Fox Hat IS REAL, but Are Zombies People? — John: Downstairs shelves include author copies of his own books, desert island books, lexicography, child prodigies, Mark Twain, books about death, poetry, religion and conjoined twins. — 00:01:56
  • 2010-11-19 · I'm Not Going Down: Thoughts from Amsterdam — John's description says Paper Towns is a finalist for a literary prize in the Netherlands, where he travels from Indianapolis. — video description

Also named in: Foreign John Green Books and the Ultimate Concern, The Patron Saint of Youtube

2011

  • 2011-02-04 · QUESTION FRIDAY: Spelling is Hard Edition — ask: John: Readers must also promise to read one of John's actual books so they don't think he is as bad a writer as the novella suggests. (playful) — 00:02:10
  • 2011-04-25 · Meeting Greg Mortenson — John: A couple of years earlier, when Paper Towns came out, John was one of about eight authors, with Mortenson, at a Penguin dinner for some 200 young adult librarians at a library convention. — 00:00:24
  • 2011-04-25 · Meeting Greg Mortenson — John: 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
  • 2011-04-25 · Meeting Greg Mortenson — John: Feeling his pee-joke book was outclassed, John remembered that Nerdfighters had helped rebuild a school in cyclone-ravaged Bangladesh and wanted to tell Mortenson. — 00:01:03
  • 2011-04-25 · Meeting Greg Mortenson — John: At the cocktail party John told the man he took for Mortenson about Nerdfighters' pond sand filters, Kiva loans and the school, talking for twelve minutes without letting him speak. — 00:01:33
  • 2011-04-25 · Meeting Greg Mortenson — John: The man answered that he was not Greg Mortenson: since nearly all the librarians were women, John had simply walked up to the white man, assuming he was Mortenson. — 00:02:00
  • 2011-05-18 · The Education Continuum WARNER CHILCOTTED — John says it doesn't matter whether, writing Paper Towns, he meant the Great White Wall of Cow to reference Moby-Dick's whale; it is there to make readers think about nature's apathy toward individuals and the heroic response. — 00:02:30
  • 2011-06-06 · Men Running on Tanks and the Truth about Book Editors — John: 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
  • 2011-08-26 · Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. — John says Sarah has contributed tons to his writing: the line 'imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia' in Looking for Alaska, the pranks in Paper Towns, and hugely to The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:03:05
  • 2011-12-23 · There Will Be NO SPOILERS!!! — ask: John: The Fault in Our Stars is still available for pre-order, and meanwhile viewers can read John's other books (the description names Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines and Paper Towns). — 00:02:50

2012

  • 2012-08-28 · In Which the Candle Dies — announcement: John shows the new box set, designed by Karen Kavett, with hardcovers of Looking for Alaska without the candle, the new Paper Towns design and Nerdfighter Sarah Turbin's Katherines design. — 00:00:29
  • 2012-11-13 · I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One. — John: He also found books other people wrote, including 'Q and the Three Tubs of Vaseline', which only makes sense if you've read Paper Towns, and Debby Kitto's 'Pants Power and his Power Pants'. — 00:00:42

2013

2014

  • 2014-10-28 · The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! — John is in North Carolina for the Paper Towns movie; filming starts in a week, he slept in director Jake Schreier's apartment and had pizza with Cara Delevingne. — 00:00:01
  • 2014-10-28 · The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! — John introduces Isaac Klausner, executive producer of Paper Towns and of The Fault in Our Stars, and director Jake Schreier. — 00:00:24
  • 2014-10-28 · The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! — Halston Sage says she loves the book and even highlighted it, and that her younger sister is a huge fan. — 00:01:25
  • 2014-10-28 · The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! — John introduces Jaz Sinclair, who plays Angela: a fan of the book who was excited to audition and 'just killed it'. — 00:01:37
  • 2014-10-28 · The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! — John: The table read went great; John is exhausted but so excited about the Paper Towns movie and grateful to everyone coming together to make it. — 00:03:09
  • 2014-10-28 · The Paper Towns Movie IS HERE! — John: Long-time Nerdfighters know John's slightly tortured experiences with Paper Towns in Hollywood over the years; now everything is going well, and he thanks everyone who read and supported the book. — 00:03:17
  • 2014-11-04 · Mustaches and Movies: Day One of Paper Towns — John: At 5:48 a.m. John says the Paper Towns movie starts filming in about an hour and 12 minutes, and he is extremely excited and nervous. — 00:00:00
  • 2014-11-04 · Mustaches and Movies: Day One of Paper Towns — John: One scene shot that day was the first part of Paper Towns John ever wrote, about nine years ago: little Q and Margo biking up to a dead body; he found it weird and wonderful and cried a little. — 00:02:37
  • 2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Halston Sage's favourite scene in the movie or book is the bathtub scene with Q. — 00:00:27
  • 2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — John says Jaz Sinclair and Halston Sage play Angela and Lacey, roles he thinks are bigger in the movie than in the book. (hedged) — 00:00:39
  • 2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Jaz Sinclair's favourite prop on the Paper Towns set is the Black Santas. — 00:01:18
  • 2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — Halston Sage: Asked for a favourite book, Halston Sage answers Paper Towns and asks John whether he has read it. (playful) — 00:02:22
  • 2014-11-19 · The Future of the Project for Awesome: Pizzamas Day 8 — John vlogs at night-morning, nearly dawn in Roscoe, New York; readers of the book will know from the setting it's a serious day, so he won't mess around much with Nat and Cara. — 00:00:06
  • 2014-11-19 · The Future of the Project for Awesome: Pizzamas Day 8 — announcement: Nat Wolff announces the P4A will be on December 12 and 13, not its usual time around his December 17 birthday, because that is the end of the Paper Towns shoot. — 00:01:06
  • 2014-11-19 · The Future of the Project for Awesome: Pizzamas Day 8 — announcement: John: the P4A moves to December 12 mostly because of the Paper Towns shoot, 'but also' (jokingly) Nat's birthday; he apologises but really wants to be part of it. (playful) — 00:01:34
  • 2014-12-09 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne of Paper Towns — John introduces Cara Delevingne, who plays Margo in the Paper Towns movie, and says he will ask her real questions from real Nerdfighters. — 00:00:06
  • 2014-12-09 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne of Paper Towns — Cara Delevingne: Cara says she relates to Margo, which she thinks is why she got the part: she has lived many of the character's stories, said many of the script's lines, and like Margo runs on instinct. (hedged) — 00:00:30
  • 2014-12-09 · Question Tuesday with Cara Delevingne of Paper Towns — Cara Delevingne: Cara says she has read Paper Towns and really liked it; she had not known how good John was and expected him to be younger, since he writes a young perspective so well. — 00:01:39
  • 2014-12-23 · Agloe, New York — John says the Paper Towns movie finished shooting a couple of days ago, so he is home, tired and a little sick, and grateful to everyone who worked on it. — 00:00:02
  • 2014-12-23 · Agloe, New York — John says the map, famous to cartography nerds and Paper Towns readers, shows Agloe, New York, north of Rockland: a town made up by its creators Ernest G Alpers and Otto Lindberg from their initials. — 00:00:32
  • 2014-12-23 · Agloe, New York — John says the mapmakers put their fake town at a dirt-road intersection in the Catskills to protect their copyright; mapmakers have always made such paper towns or streets to catch copiers. — 00:00:46
  • 2014-12-23 · Agloe, New York — John says Paper Towns is about how we hurt ourselves and each other when we imagine other people as less than or more than human. — 00:01:44
  • 2014-12-23 · Agloe, New York — John says that back in 2008 he published a story about how the merely imagined can become really real. (hedged) — 00:01:59
  • 2014-12-23 · Agloe, New York — John says the journey from book to film has been the weirdest and most wonderful part of a very weird and wonderful year for him. — 00:02:40
  • 2014-12-23 · Agloe, New York — John thanks everyone who made Paper Towns real by reading it and so made Agloe real again; Agloe will cease to exist again someday, but together they made it real for a while. — 00:02:49

2015

2016

  • 2016-07-26 · El Chapo and Me — John: The article says El Chapo has read two books in prison: a Spanish novel, El Final del Ave Fenix, and John's Paper Towns. — 00:00:53
  • 2016-07-26 · El Chapo and Me — John argues Paper Towns isn't so much a love story as a story of learning that romanticizing someone isn't the same as loving them. — 00:01:04
  • 2016-07-26 · El Chapo and Me — John's biggest question is how a book he wrote eight years ago ended up in a prison in Juarez, Mexico, and so how anyone ever found his books. — 00:01:31
  • 2016-07-26 · El Chapo and Me — John says his books are far more widely read than he imagined, yet more than 97% of Americans haven't read one, so his readers are a relatively small club. — 00:01:45
  • 2016-11-15 · Good News/Bad News: A Pizzamas Video in Nine Slices — John says Leonard Cohen gave him one of the central ideas in his book Paper Towns. — 00:02:05

2017

  • 2017-06-06 · My Favorite Subreddits: Joy, Wonder, Knowledge, and Birds with Arms — recommendation: John loves Imaginary Maps, unsurprisingly for readers of Paper Towns: occasional copyright trap maps, but mostly fantastical maps like the Republic of Skyrim's languages or New York State High Speed Rail 2030. — 00:03:05
  • 2017-08-15 · Very Hard to Desclibe — John notes the cover shown is wrapped around Paper Towns; people disappointed by the lack of actual turtles will probably also be disappointed by their absence from the book. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:17
  • 2017-08-29 · 40 — John says next week's (week of 4 September 2017) video, his reading of the first chapter of Turtles All the Way Down, will be over four minutes but is not punishable, citing precedents from 2011 and 2008 when he read the first chapters of The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns. (playful) — 00:02:51
  • 2017-10-17 · Look at Tiny Baby Hank — John: At Hank's old high school John signs books and thanks the Winter Park High School students who made a paper town and got them t-shirts and green room chairs. — 00:00:38
  • 2017-10-20 · Places Made of People: Thoughts from My Old High School — Hank: This week (week of 16 October 2017) Hank went back to Winter Park High School, a place of good times and bad times but mostly just times, an experience that doesn't fit well into his brain. — 00:00:00

2018

  • 2018-04-17 · John Green Answers Your John Green Questions — John lives in Indianapolis, where TFIOS and Turtles All the Way Down are set; earlier he lived in Chicago (part of An Abundance of Katherines), Birmingham, Alabama (Looking for Alaska) and Orlando, Florida (Paper Towns). — 00:00:35
  • 2018-07-03 · How Does This End? — John's Myspace is still there, a minor museum to his 2007 self, with a profile picture advertising the forthcoming Paper Towns. — 00:00:39
  • 2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes — John adds that Paper Towns has 32 chapters counting the prologue, and Looking for Alaska 60 counting the author's note; saying it out loud, it's a little weird. — 00:01:27
  • 2018-08-28 · The Book Was Better? — John: Paper Towns, a New York Times bestseller, sold about 50,000 copies in its first year; a movie selling 50,000 opening-weekend tickets loses a lot of money, and even 500,000 is usually a failure. — 00:02:02
  • 2018-10-12 · Hank Reads from 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing' — Hank explains the channel tradition: when one of the brothers has a book out, he reads its first chapter in a video; so far only John, back to Paper Towns nine years ago. — 00:00:00

2019

  • 2019-04-23 · untitled — John: Paper Towns got an okay title only after John tried 'The Life and Hard Times of Margo Roth Spiegelman', 'The Copyright Trap' and 'More Light Than Heat'. — 00:00:58
  • 2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John says seeing some imagined maps inspired much of his novel Paper Towns. — 00:01:56
  • 2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: Hank long supported John's writing: when Paper Towns came out in 2008, Hank and Katherine toured libraries and bookstores with him in a rented minivan, Hank singing and playing a turtle professor or sock puppet. — 00:02:27

2020

  • 2020-07-21 · Somebody Once Asked . . . — John: Wallet Island being on Google Maps feels lovely: it would be a wonderful coda to Paper Towns if a place that only exists sometimes became real by being named on a map. — 00:02:52

2021

2022

  • 2022-01-11 · The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later — John: After Paper Towns, whose plot hinges on the narrator realizing that Margo was not a miracle or an adventure but a girl, John felt he had explored that theme fully. — 00:00:58
  • 2022-09-30 · COMMIT TO THE BIT — John tells the bust of Edgar Allan Poe he won for Paper Towns 14 years ago that it is now his second favorite mustachioed bust, after a new one. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2022-10-06 · The Pizzamas Magic Is Almost Over… — John recalls Maureen writing Suite Scarlett across the table while he wrote Paper Towns, at a New York City cupcake restaurant where they paid $2 for coffee and stayed six hours. — 00:03:17
  • 2022-12-20 · The Best Books Get Better — In a channel comment John says he was very interested in This Side of Paradise while writing Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns, and is still fond of its rhythmic prose though it feels dated. — creator comment

2023

2024

  • 2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies — John says most optioned books never become movies: An Abundance of Katherines was optioned and never made, and Paper Towns was optioned three times first. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-08-07 · Dear Hank and John Livestream! — John says opinions on his other books mostly come from readers, though Paper Towns had a little discourse, so some people judge it without reading it. — 00:10:57
  • 2024-10-01 · On Fame and Chappell Roan — John's least favourite photo of himself is from the Paper Towns film premiere: on top of the world, rich and very famous, he was in the middle of a panic attack. — 00:00:12

2025

2026

  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says he desperately wants to be a proper mystery and romance novelist but can't write a proper mystery: Turtles All the Way Down mostly became about OCD, and Paper Towns about imagining other people complexly. — 03:07:36
  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John notes that Paper Towns won an Edgar Award. — 03:07:36
  • 2026-07-14 · On the Road Again — John recalls the 2008 Great American Tour de Nerdfighting: he, Hank and Katherine drove around the country for a month in a minivan, Hank selling CDs and John Paper Towns; exhausting but exhilarating. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-08-11 · Hollywood, Ending — announcement: The description says John reads the first chapter of Hollywood, Ending, out everywhere September 22, the eighth part of a series since 2008 in which the brothers read first chapters. — video description
  • 2026-08-11 · Hollywood, Ending — John says reading a new book's first chapter is a tradition going back to 2008, when he read the first chapter of Paper Towns before it came out. — 00:06:46