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2020

2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — John: After a stressful week, John says he has a long-term plan to draw 170,000 or so circles. — 00:00:00
2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — John: In comments John updates that he has reached 3,400 circles and may livestream his progress; he counts in groups of 100, switching pens and making a tally mark each time. — creator comment
2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — In a comment John says he thinks he will then make an artwork with the death count since 8/16, then another, and so on until it is over. (speculative) — creator comment
2020-08-18 · what's wrong with taking the back streets? — John: Comparisons help some, but large numbers stay hard to contextualize, so John is making the circles to learn how to count to 170,000; this is circle 589. — 00:03:24
2020-08-25 · Somebody once told me… — In a comment John says he has drawn 12,000 circles so far, and it has been very moving to see so many viewers also take up drawing circles. — video description
2020-09-01 · get the show on — John: For two and a half years John has written the podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed, reviewing facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale, from a bacterium to Taco Bell breakfast. — 00:00:00
2020-09-01 · get the show on — announcement: In a comment John says the book is mostly podcast essays plus five to ten new reviews, with some podcast reviews substantially updated and revised, and small differences in scoring and pacing. — creator comment
2020-09-01 · get the show on — announcement: In a comment John says the book can not yet be pre-ordered on Bookshop.org, which awaits a third-party data feed, and hopes it will be possible within a couple of days. (speculative) — creator comment
2020-09-01 · get the show on — announcement: In a comment John thinks the book will be available in Brazil and says he really hopes his Brazilian publisher Intrinseca will publish it. (speculative) — creator comment
2020-09-01 · get the show on — announcement: John: After a year of expanding and revising podcast reviews and writing new ones, John announces The Anthropocene Reviewed will be a book, his first nonfiction book. — 00:00:58
2020-09-01 · get the show on — announcement: John: The Anthropocene Reviewed book will be published on May 18, 2021, is available for pre-order now, and will have an audiobook read by John. — 00:01:27
2020-09-01 · get the show on — announcement: John: As he did with The Fault in Our Stars, John says he will sign the entire first printing of the American and Canadian edition. — 00:01:27
2020-09-01 · get the show on — announcement: John says copies ordered from outside the US or Canada, even the American English edition, will probably not be signed, because international printing and shipping systems don't allow it. (hedged) — 00:01:56
2020-09-01 · get the show on — announcement: John says anyone in the US or Canada who pre-orders the book will get a signed copy. — 00:01:56
2020-09-01 · get the show on — John shows his circles: 17,000 drawn so far in his attempt to understand the number 170,000, perhaps enough to freak out YouTube's compression, yet only 10% of the total. — 00:02:26
2020-09-01 · get the show on — John says writing these essays has been the most fun he has had writing since maybe ever, and he is going back to it. — 00:03:24
2020-09-29 · How 'bout Yours? — announcement: John thanks pre-orderers and says he will sign the just over 150,000 sheets behind him so every US and Canadian pre-order and every first-printing copy of the book is autographed. — 00:00:00
2020-09-29 · How 'bout Yours? — ask: The description says The Anthropocene Reviewed book is available for pre-order and all pre-orders of the US edition will be signed; a channel comment adds the Canadian edition is the same. — video description
2020-10-05 · Thank God It's Over and PIZZAMAS IS HERE!!!!!!! — announcement: John unboxes this year's (2020) items, starting with Circles Pizza John, which combines two of his favorite things, drawing tiny circles and having a mustache, then shirts, a hoodie, a tote, socks, pins, wrapping paper. (playful) — 00:00:29
2020-10-07 (said on 2020-10-06, implied) · The Golden Age of Vlogbrothers — John loves seeing people draw circles in response to his circle drawings; a Pizzamas t-shirt is such a drawing, made by a nerdfighter named Kimmy. — 00:01:56
2020-10-20 · How to Sign Your Name 150,000 Times — John says signing takes a while: rushing, maybe 700 sheets an hour, but counting sorting, collecting paper and changing pens, about two hours per thousand, so 300 hours. — 00:00:00
2020-10-20 · How to Sign Your Name 150,000 Times — announcement: The description says The Anthropocene Reviewed book comes out on May 18th and every copy of the first printing will be signed. — video description
2020-10-20 · How to Sign Your Name 150,000 Times — John says signing is a way of thanking readers, for buying the book but also for their attention, the hours they will give his work. — 00:01:10
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — announcement: The description says The Anthropocene Reviewed book is available for preorder and comes out, hopefully, on May 18th. (hedged) — video description
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — John: The other creative projects John could not name in January meant The Anthropocene Reviewed, which he successfully put on hiatus, though he misses it. — 00:00:37
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — announcement: John: Barring unforeseen catastrophes, there should be some new episodes of The Anthropocene Reviewed next year (2021). (hedged) — 00:00:45
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — announcement: John: The Anthropocene Reviewed book comes out on May 18th, 2021, hopefully. (hedged) — 00:00:50
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — John: The book John wanted to finish in 2020 is The Anthropocene Reviewed; he has not exactly finished it but has made good progress. — 00:00:58
2020-12-29 · Looking Back at My 2020 Goals — John is still nervous about the book, his first nonfiction and largely about himself, but feels better about it than in January, unlike most things. — 00:01:08
2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — announcement: The description says The Anthropocene Reviewed will soon be a book and every copy of the first printing will be signed by John. — video description

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2021

2021-01-12 · My 2021 Vision Board — John stands by his goal of finishing his book, which he calls extremely in-depth Yelp reviews, coming out later this year (2021). (playful) — 00:00:00
2021-01-12 · My 2021 Vision Board — John: Scratch-and-sniff stickers, time-released medication and triplicate forms all use microencapsulation, which John must understand better for The Anthropocene Reviewed book. — 00:01:46
2021-01-12 · My 2021 Vision Board — John: To make sure every copy of the first US printing of The Anthropocene Reviewed book is signed, John must sign about 10,000 times a week; the stack he shows is about 600. — 00:02:16
2021-01-19 · let's go on a parts adventure — John is going to the hand doctor because his finger isn't working, hopefully not because he has signed his name over 500,000 times in ten years and must sign 100,000 more in three months. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
2021-01-26 · The Sycamore Tree: The Anthropocene Reviewed — announcement: The description says The Anthropocene Reviewed book, with this essay and 49 others, comes out on May 18th, and signed copies can be pre-ordered. — video description
2021-01-26 · The Sycamore Tree: The Anthropocene Reviewed — announcement: In a comment John says he has fixed in the book a detail about what sycamore trees are made of, after a viewer pointed out a sycamore isn't mostly water and dirt. — video description
2021-01-26 · The Sycamore Tree: The Anthropocene Reviewed — announcement: In a comment John confirms he will narrate The Anthropocene Reviewed audiobook. — video description
2021-02-09 · Lesser Known YouTube Channels I Love — announcement: John now needs to sign 250,000 times so every first-printing copy of The Anthropocene Reviewed book is signed; he will do it, and thanks pre-orderers. — 00:00:00
2021-02-23 · A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life — ask: The description invites viewers to preorder a signed copy of The Anthropocene Reviewed book; in a comment John adds he must sign the same number regardless, as most signed copies go to bookstores. — video description
2021-02-23 · A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life — John has been signing with a purple Sharpie in his quest to sign all 250,000 copies of the first US printing of The Anthropocene Reviewed book, and it has brought him joy. — 00:00:29
2021-02-23 · A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life — John: Despite its grandiose title, John says, The Anthropocene Reviewed is a very personal book, his first attempt to write about his actual self. — 00:00:58
2021-02-23 · A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life — John does not want to imply writing is difficult work, since he has done difficult work and writing is not it, but it needs intense focus that can be emotionally exhausting. — 00:01:05
2021-02-23 · A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life — John: Because this book was about him, John felt his whole self was being poured into it, which was a little terrifying; signing was a break from that. — 00:01:18
2021-02-23 · A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life — John makes drawings obsessively, like his drawing of 17,000 circles, or rather 17,000 failed attempts at circles. — 00:01:56
2021-02-23 · A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life — announcement: John: The book comes out in three months and must be printed before then, so there is not much time left to sign and many marks left to make. — 00:02:55
2021-03-02 · What's Not in the Frame — announcement: The description says The Anthropocene Reviewed book comes out on May 18th and signed copies can be ordered while supporting local bookstores. — video description
2021-03-02 · What's Not in the Frame — announcement: John says he will live-edit The Anthropocene Reviewed book with viewers' help on a livestream this afternoon. — video description
2021-03-02 · What's Not in the Frame — John: Making one thing a week makes it easier to make other things: many ideas in John's books, and many Anthropocene Reviewed essays, began in Vlogbrothers videos. — 00:00:35
2021-03-02 · What's Not in the Frame — John: The last edits for The Anthropocene Reviewed book are due in three days, which is also a little stressful for John. — 00:03:35
2021-03-16 · How a Book Cover Gets Designed — announcement: John announces that The Anthropocene Reviewed book has a cover, which he shows, and that he will talk about how book covers happen for his books. — 00:00:00
2021-03-16 · How a Book Cover Gets Designed — John: The Anthropocene Reviewed is John's sixth book, but with reprints and foreign editions he has had over a hundred covers, some he disliked and some he adores. — 00:00:00
2021-03-16 · How a Book Cover Gets Designed — ask: The description asks viewers to pre-order a signed copy at Bookshop or wherever books are sold. — video description
2021-03-16 · How a Book Cover Gets Designed — announcement: The description notes that only the US and Canada editions will be signed. — video description
2021-03-16 · How a Book Cover Gets Designed — John: Grace's paths of shifting color felt to John like a visual expression of the book's subject: how perspective shapes so-called reality and how forces shape the paths we share. — 00:01:56
2021-03-16 · How a Book Cover Gets Designed — Grace Han (quoted): Grace, quoted by John, says she brainstorms while thinking of someone who would most need the book; for this book she was that someone, having lost a close friend and growing cynical in the pandemic. — 00:01:56
2021-03-16 · How a Book Cover Gets Designed — announcement: John: The Anthropocene Reviewed book comes out on May 18 and is available for pre-order now. — 00:03:24
2021-03-30 · I did it! — John announces he has done it: he has signed his name 250,000 times. — 00:00:00
2021-03-30 · I did it! — John has packed 78 boxes of signed sheets to be bound into copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed book at the printer in Virginia. — 00:00:00
2021-03-30 · I did it! — announcement: The description points readers in the US or Canada to pre-order a signed copy of The Anthropocene Reviewed book. — video description
2021-03-30 · I did it! — John imagines copies going to his old high school campus and to Alliance, Nebraska, home of Carhenge, a replica of Stonehenge made of junked cars; he writes about these in the book. — 00:01:27
2021-03-30 · I did it! — John doesn't think he will ever sign his name 250,000 times again. (hedged) — 00:02:25
2021-03-30 · I did it! — John: Wanting more work for the LectroJog, John hopes The Anthropocene Reviewed will not be his last book. (playful, hedged) — 00:02:25
2021-03-30 · I did it! — John has had a very rough period finishing the book, mostly from things more important than books (family health, managing his brain disorder), but partly from the book. — 00:02:25
2021-03-30 · I did it! — announcement: John: Today is the last day John can change the book; from tomorrow it is in the hands of the Virginia printers, and on May 18 it will belong to its readers. — 00:02:54
2021-04-02 · John's World Record — Hank: John went from 150,000 signatures for The Fault in Our Stars to 200,000 for Turtles All the Way Down and now 250,000 for The Anthropocene Reviewed, flooding the market. — 00:01:27
2021-04-02 · John's World Record — Hank: This reflects John's habit of imagining different ways of doing things, which Hank thinks the new book reflects better than any of his previous books. — 00:03:29
2021-04-02 · John's World Record — announcement: Hank congratulates John; The Anthropocene Reviewed is out May 18, can be pre-ordered wherever books are sold, and all pre-orders will be signed. — 00:03:29
2021-04-13 · My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk — ask: The description, and John's comment, invite viewers to pre-order a signed copy of his new book The Anthropocene Reviewed, his first nonfiction book. — video description
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John just finished recording The Anthropocene Reviewed audiobook, which was fun; he found only one typo. — 00:01:46
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — John: If someone abroad manages to order the US edition, John thinks it will be signed but can't promise, given international copyright and shipping. (hedged) — 00:02:44
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John: There will be a virtual tour: reviewing the Anthropocene together with special guests, talking about love, loss and this weird moment, and supporting independent bookstores. — 00:02:44
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John will announce the tour dates when he has them, this week (week of 19 April 2021) or next. — 00:02:44
2021-04-20 · Breaking Ground!!! — announcement: John: The book and audiobook come out on May 18 and are available for pre-order now. — 00:02:44
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — John: The Anthropocene Reviewed book has arrived; John finds it beautiful and is grateful to the people who made it. — 00:00:00
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — John: The book's endpapers are based on John's circle drawings. — 00:00:00
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — announcement: John: The audiobook has three reviews not in print because they work only in audio (notably the Kauai o-o review), while the print book has easter eggs and a long notes section. — creator comment
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — announcement: John: The book will appear in French, German, Spanish and Dutch around the English release and other languages later; those copies will not be signed. — creator comment
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — announcement: John: Paperbacks will not be signed, because signed tip-in sheets can't be bound into them; only hardcovers. — creator comment
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — John: Much of the book was inspired by Sarah telling John that in the Anthropocene there are no disinterested observers, only participants. — creator comment
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — John: We want to distill life into single data points or elevator pitches, but human experience is nuanced and multitudinous, one of the things TAR is about. — 00:00:58
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — announcement: John: The Anthropocene Reviewed is essays in the form of in-depth Yelp reviews, reviewing things like viral meningitis, a photograph and the first five minutes of Penguins of Madagascar. — 00:01:27
2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — announcement: John: Signed copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed are available for pre-order now. — 00:02:55
2021-05-04 · What the Most-Viewed Vlogbrothers Videos Say about YouTube (and about us) — announcement: John: The Anthropocene Reviewed book comes out two weeks from tomorrow, and John says he is a vast collection of exposed nerve endings. (playful) — 00:00:00
2021-05-04 · What the Most-Viewed Vlogbrothers Videos Say about YouTube (and about us) — announcement: John announces a virtual tour for The Anthropocene Reviewed's release, supporting local independent bookstores, with a special guest each night and a new review written together nightly; tickets linked below. — 00:02:55
2021-05-04 · What the Most-Viewed Vlogbrothers Videos Say about YouTube (and about us) — announcement: John: Since 2008, whenever either brother has a book out, the author reads its first chapter in a Vlogbrothers video; this continues soon with an animated video of The Anthropocene Reviewed's opening. — 00:03:24
2021-05-07 · Are We The Same Person? — Hank got John's book in the mail, leafed through it for Easter eggs, then started reading and read a lot of it in an hour, surprised how easily it sucked him in. — 00:01:47
2021-05-07 · Are We The Same Person? — Hank: The book's biggest sensation for Hank is that it feels like a success, not his own, yet he feels really good about it. — 00:02:12
2021-05-07 · Are We The Same Person? — recommendation: Hank calls John's book unlike any other book, doing something extremely hard, and says John is really good at this. — 00:02:52
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — announcement: John says his book The Anthropocene Reviewed comes out one week from today; he feels like a small boat facing big waves. — 00:00:03
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — announcement: John says the physical book is an eye experience and the audiobook an ear experience; each contains things the other lacks, such as a review of half title pages in the print book. — 00:00:29
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John says writing works only when reader and writer lay down their shields of cynicism; feeling an author knows something about you makes you less alone, which he loves most about art. — 00:01:53
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John says that if The Anthropocene Reviewed can make some people feel less alone in that way, he feels very fortunate. — 00:02:15
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — announcement: John: Parts of the book that wouldn't have worked on the podcast: most notably the picture parts, and also the wintry mix parts. (playful) — 00:02:28
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John confirms he used the word 'deadpan' exactly once in The Anthropocene Reviewed, as in every book since An Abundance of Katherines, another 14-year-old joke he enjoys. — 00:02:36
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John: Asked to pronounce foreign titles of the book, John attempts the Dutch and German titles, raising his voice for the German question mark. (playful) — 00:02:45
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — announcement: John liked the German title so much that he wrote the book's entire concluding essay about it. — 00:02:57
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John says readers can read the book however they like: he is very over authors prescribing reading experiences; the book belongs to the reader, to use however it is useful. — 00:03:02
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — announcement: John: The book is organized not alphabetically or by date but by a vague journey from childhood to adulthood, and from hope to despair to hope. — 00:03:12
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John: Asked what the book is about, John says he still doesn't know; perhaps awe, connectedness, or how weird it is that temporary beings can conceive of permanence. (hedged) — 00:03:25
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — John: Asked what is on his vision board this week (week of 10 May 2021), John answers that he really hopes viewers like The Anthropocene Reviewed book. — 00:03:33
2021-05-11 · I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday. — announcement: John is going on a virtual tour for The Anthropocene Reviewed next week (week of 17 May 2021); info and tickets are in the description. — 00:03:38
2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — Hank contrasts that John's version of the idea became years of carefully built podcasts and a deeply introspective book, as much comedic memoir as historical exploration. — 00:01:56
2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — Hank: What Hank took for a four-minute video idea John saw as much more, and it has become a deep, peculiar, captivating and hilarious book. — 00:03:00
2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — Hank: Some people have built theanthropocenereviewed.com, where you photograph the book in a place and rate that place on a five-star scale; so far only John and Hank are on it. — 00:03:08
2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — announcement: Hank: John's virtual book tour runs May 17, 18, 19 and 22; tickets include a copy of the book, shipped or picked up at a partner store, chosen by store or guest host. — 00:03:24
2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — announcement: Hank: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green comes out May 18 and all copies will be signed; Hank's is. — 00:03:40
2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While — announcement: John announces that The Anthropocene Reviewed book is out today, Tuesday May 18. — 00:00:01
2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While — John: Recalling the strange joy of his books going where he never will, John says from today the book has a life separate from its author, forging connections with whoever reads it. — 00:00:14
2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While — John says it has been a joy to watch the books start to travel and, this morning, to read readers' reviews of their locations on the site. — 00:00:37
2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While — announcement: John: Early reviews are very nice: the San Francisco Chronicle calls the book perfect to read over lunch or keep on the nightstand as a reminder of feeling small and human. — 00:01:13
2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While — John shows a picture of Drew Barrymore hugging his book after she said she loved it. — 00:01:43
2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While — announcement: John: Another review that made John happy calls his first foray into nonfiction his most mature, compelling and beautifully written book yet. — 00:01:55
2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While — announcement: John: The virtual tour started last night (17 May 2021) with Clint Smith, and it was so fun that John briefly forgot he was on Zoom. — 00:02:13
2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While — John: After a long three years and a really long year and a half, John is so grateful the book is here. — 00:02:32
2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While — John wrote the book to write his way back to wonder, hope and sustained attention; it gave him that gift, and he hopes it gives readers some of it too. — 00:02:39
2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While — John tells Hank the book started with him: in sprawling conversations about our human moment and belly laughs on a tour bus during a cross-country road trip; so much of John's work and life starts with Hank. — 00:02:50
2021-05-18 · Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While — John: This book finally has a main character with a sibling: Hank is at its beginning, middle and end, telling John what he needs to hear with wit, empathy and love, as in real life. — 00:03:28
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — announcement: John: Signed copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed are available now, and there is an audiobook narrated by John. — video description
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: The video continues a tradition from 2008, when John read Paper Towns' first chapter; the brothers have since read first chapters of seven books; for this one John and Rosianna asked Meitar Almog to make art. — video description
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: Marveling at five-star reviews of everything, John told Hank he had once had an idea to review Canada geese; Hank said: The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:10:02
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: The book started as a podcast charting contradictions of human life as John experiences it: how we can be so compassionate and so cruel, so persistent and so quick to despair. — 00:12:08
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: In early 2020, after two years of writing the podcast, a novel coronavirus appeared, and John began to write about the only thing he could write about. — 00:12:53
2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: Sendak's last public words were 'Live your life', said three times; the book is John's attempt to do so. — 00:15:17
2021-06-01 · My Two Favorite Books of the Year — recommendation: John: Despite a month of Anthropocene Reviewed videos, John says other books exist, and recommends his two favorite books so far this year (2021), which both come out today. — 00:00:00
2021-06-15 · VLOGBROTHERS REUNITED!!!! — Hank says his favorite essay in The Anthropocene Reviewed is the first that made him cry: the Liverpool one, You'll Never Walk Alone. — 00:00:00
2021-06-22 · Mindblowers with Hank and John — In a comment John thanks viewers: The Anthropocene Reviewed just had its fourth week on the New York Times bestseller list. — creator comment
2021-06-29 · Sneezing is not normal. — announcement: The description says The Anthropocene Reviewed book has just celebrated its fifth week on the New York Times bestseller list, and thanks readers. — video description
2021-07-13 · The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make — In a comment John thanks everyone who has read and shared The Anthropocene Reviewed book, including grandparents who don't know him, and calls seven weeks on the bestseller list incredible. — creator comment
2021-07-13 · The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make — announcement: John, who writes about his life and mental health especially in The Anthropocene Reviewed book, thanks viewers: it has been on the New York Times bestseller list for seven consecutive weeks. — 00:01:59
2021-07-20 · Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews — John says The Anthropocene Reviewed, essays reviewing facets of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for eight consecutive weeks. — 00:00:00
2021-07-20 · Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews — John is grateful and surprised by the book's wide readership: his assumption that every reader would watch these videos was wrong, as an email from Katherine from Minnesota, titled GRANDMOTHER LOVES YOUR BOOK, showed. (playful) — 00:00:00
2021-07-20 · Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews — John finds it weird that the book, which explores the simultaneous absurdity and indispensability of the five-star scale, is now widely reviewed on a five-star scale. — 00:00:29
2021-07-20 · Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews — John says that on both Goodreads and Amazon The Anthropocene Reviewed has a much higher average rating than any of his other books. — 00:00:29
2021-07-20 · Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews — John: Having read some reviews of his book of reviews, John decides to go deeper and review the reviews, giving each one stars. (playful) — 00:00:58
2021-07-20 · Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews — John: Answering a four-star Goodreads review calling it a soft book, John says that is exactly what he wanted: to write a soft book for a hard moment. — 00:01:27
2021-07-20 · Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews — John: Responding to Adele's review that the book reminds us what it means to be alive, John says he wrote it to remind himself what it means to be alive. — 00:02:30
2021-07-20 · Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews — ask: John says signed copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed are still available, or readers can get it at a local library, or get the audiobook he reads. — 00:03:32
2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — announcement: John: The final episode, maybe, of John's podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed comes out on Thursday. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — recommendation: The description says signed copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed are available in many places, including Bookshop. — video description
2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — John: Three months after The Anthropocene Reviewed book came out, sharing something so personal has been strange, lovely and terrifying; unable to write about that directly, John wrote about space art. — 00:00:29
2021-08-24 · It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video. — John: Working on The Anthropocene Reviewed has been incredible, but John thinks he is ready to go back to writing fiction, maybe, after a long pause. (hedged) — 00:00:58
2021-10-04 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE! — John notes that readers of The Anthropocene Reviewed know how he loves scratch-and-sniff stickers. — 00:02:54
2021-10-06 · Searching for Betsy in Brazil — announcement: John's book The Anthropocene Reviewed comes out in Brazil this week (week of 4 October 2021); unable to go there because of the state of the world, he celebrates in Brazil, Indiana. — 00:00:00
2021-11-16 · Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space — announcement: The description says the video is adapted from the podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed, also a book, available signed with a bonus zine. — video description
2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · I have been playing a small trick on you. — John: Writing and publishing The Anthropocene Reviewed book were both really fun and fulfilling, so John is not in a hurry to write or publish anything. — 00:02:26
2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · I have been playing a small trick on you. — John: Though a book takes him years, John is looking forward to it, enjoying the fun and immersion of writing, and wants to focus on it. — 00:02:55
2021-11-23 (said on 2021-10-28, implied) · I have been playing a small trick on you. — John: Lastly, John needs to finish his ridiculously time-consuming circle drawings. — 00:02:55
2021-11-30 · Vlogbrothers REUNITED AT LAST — ask: John: Asked about holiday gifts, John recommends signed copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed, sold with a special zine holding his all-new review and pieces by many others. — 00:00:00
2021-11-30 · Vlogbrothers REUNITED AT LAST — ask: The description and John's comment ask US buyers to order by December 3 to have the signed book and zine before Christmas. — video description
2021-11-30 · Vlogbrothers REUNITED AT LAST — Hank's book sales idea: when The Anthropocene Reviewed is remaindered, sign two-dollar bills instead of the books and call it a two-dollar discount. (playful) — 00:02:26
2021-12-10 · What Was Early YouTube Like? (with Hank and John) — John's least favourite change: ratings were better as a five-star system than likes and dislikes, now without dislikes, though he is old and wrote a book about the five-star scale. — 00:01:25
2021-12-14 · MAKE. BELIEVE. — In a comment John thanks people for sharing The Anthropocene Reviewed, which is suddenly finding many new readers, and says he loved writing nonfiction too. — creator comment
2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — John: Years ago at a party a very famous person asked John whether he was the science one or the other one; he said the other one, since Hank was always the science one. — 00:00:00
2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — announcement: John says a large e-commerce platform recently named The Anthropocene Reviewed book one of the best science books of the year. — 00:00:29
2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — John: So now John is the science one too: there are two science ones and two writer ones. (playful) — 00:00:29
2021-12-21 · NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE… — John is not positive The Anthropocene Reviewed is a science book, though it does contain some science alongside literary analysis and history. (hedged) — 00:00:29

2022

2022-01-11 · The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later — announcement: The description plugs The Anthropocene Reviewed, now available as a 'rare UNSIGNED hardcover', via Bookshop.org. (playful) — video description
2022-01-11 · The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later — John: The Anthropocene Reviewed continues it with historical responses to disease, especially infectious disease. — 00:03:24
2022-01-11 · The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later — John: The books have other themes: Turtles is about what we talk about when we talk about free will, and The Anthropocene Reviewed about what's even the point. — 00:03:24
2022-06-21 · On Disease — John saw his hand doctor because his hand isn't working perfectly; the doctor recalled advising him to sign less, after which John signed 250,000 copies of The Anthropocene Reviewed. (playful) — 00:00:00
2022-06-21 · On Disease — John says he writes about disease, from OCD in Turtles All the Way Down to plague in The Anthropocene Reviewed, because it strangely circumscribes consciousness and we don't talk about it enough. — 00:01:56
2022-09-20 · Against Nihilism — John wrote The Anthropocene Reviewed to pay attention to where his attention was going: not focus, but consciousness itself, his soul stuff. — 00:00:29
2022-09-20 · Against Nihilism — John: In three and a half years writing the book John learned about Staphylococcus aureus and grocery stores, but the biggest, surprising lesson was that he is broadly in favor of humans. — 00:00:58
2022-09-28 · How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People — John's book The Anthropocene Reviewed came out last May in hardcover but not in paperback. — 00:00:00
2022-09-28 · How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People — announcement: The description notes The Anthropocene Reviewed is sold in hardcover, audiobook narrated by John, e-book and large print, but not regular paperback, because publishing is weird. — video description
2022-09-28 · How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People — John: There is no paperback of The Anthropocene Reviewed except the large print edition, designed for people who want or need larger type. — 00:00:56
2022-09-28 · How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People — John: Some Amazon buyers click 'paperback' and accidentally buy the large print edition of The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:01:25
2022-09-28 · How My Book Became a Hit with Elderly People — John: The algorithm concluded people prefer the large print edition and has shown it disproportionately for four months, making it a USA Today bestseller. — 00:02:24
2022-11-22 · John's 2022 Gift Guide — recommendation: John: Having just written one, John thinks essay collections make great gifts, recommending Toni Morrison's The Source of Self-Regard and Hilary Mantel's Mantel Pieces. — 00:01:27

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2023

2023-01-03 · TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH — John's past goals included exercising 150 minutes a week and finishing The Anthropocene Reviewed book, and he has a pretty good track record of meeting them. — 00:00:58
2023-03-07 · What's the Deal with Paperback Publishing? — ask: The description invites viewers to come to the Miami launch of The Anthropocene Reviewed paperback. — video description
2023-03-07 · What's the Deal with Paperback Publishing? — announcement: John announces the paperback of The Anthropocene Reviewed is about to come out and he will launch it in person in Miami, Florida, on March 23; tickets in the description. — 00:00:29
2023-03-07 · What's the Deal with Paperback Publishing? — John says editions can be specialised by format: The Anthropocene Reviewed audiobook has a couple of reviews that need audio to work. — 00:02:26
2023-03-07 · What's the Deal with Paperback Publishing? — announcement: John: The Anthropocene Reviewed paperback will include John's reviews of ginkgo trees and of the first art made in space, because he wanted them there. — 00:02:55
2023-03-07 · What's the Deal with Paperback Publishing? — John: The hardcover has a secret last-page review of the page recommending readers John's other books. — 00:02:55
2023-03-07 · What's the Deal with Paperback Publishing? — John: Part of John wishes the paperback had come out with the hardcover, but he is thrilled it is coming out at all. — 00:02:55
2023-04-18 · goodbye to my friend — John calls Bill a brilliant writer and editor and a wonderful friend who, as readers of The Anthropocene Reviewed may know, kind of saved his life once. — 00:00:13
2023-10-17 · My Next Book — John: Retirement didn't stop John writing, only writing what people expect: he wrote the weird, personal nonfiction book The Anthropocene Reviewed, which found a broad audience, though not as broad as his novels. — 00:01:56
2023-10-17 · My Next Book — announcement: John says he is writing, loves writing, and will have a next book, hopefully someday soon. — 00:03:46

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2024

2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies — John: With Hollywood not chasing The Anthropocene Reviewed or his forthcoming tuberculosis book, John says this may be his last time seeing hundreds of people make something wonderful together. (hedged) — 00:04:52
2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John admits he said after last time he would never again sign hundreds of thousands of books, but says he is signing only 100,000. (playful) — 00:03:00
2024-12-10 · On Writing — John: Rereading, John sees the book continues 20 years of his work, extending his fascination with illness: cancer in The Fault in Our Stars, OCD in Turtles All the Way Down, plagues in The Anthropocene Reviewed. — 00:02:39
2024-12-10 · On Writing — John notes that, like most of his books, it contains the word 'deadpanned' precisely once. (playful) — 00:03:37
2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — John has signed 700,000 tip-in sheets over his career, is attached to the process and his Lectrojogger, and says it is a bummer that he will not be able to after this. — 00:01:44

2025

2025-01-21 · Do Audiobooks Count As Reading? — John says The Anthropocene Reviewed audiobook has sold almost as well as the paperback. — 00:03:56
2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — John says reading a new book's first chapter is a Vlogbrothers tradition since he read Paper Towns' first chapter in 2008; both brothers have done it since. — 00:09:27
2025-06-03 · My Lies — John says his two latest books, The Anthropocene Reviewed and Everything Is Tuberculosis, are nonfiction for adults and differ from his novels, not really being about romance, love or friendship. — 00:01:21
2025-06-03 · My Lies — John: After he started writing nonfiction John announced he was done with fiction: as in The Anthropocene Reviewed, he no longer saw its point and felt his historical moment could only be met with truth. — 00:02:20
2025-07-01 · What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means — John says Everything Is Tuberculosis has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 14 consecutive weeks, twice as long as The Anthropocene Reviewed, which astonishes him. — 00:00:00

2026

2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — John says the closest he has come to a personal memoir is a book of somewhat personal essays, but in The Anthropocene Reviewed he could always deflect, which Danielle Bainbridge never does. — 07:49:31
2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! — announcement: John launches a signed mystery book perk: a signed copy of one of his books, such as Turtles All the Way Down, Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed or Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 08:08:39
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John last published books in consecutive years in 2005 and 2006; now, 20 years later, Everything Is Tuberculosis came out last year (2025) and Hollywood, Ending comes out this year (2026). — 00:00:29
2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John admits he said he would never do this signing again because he has arthritis, and his shoulder, and so on. — 00:03:24
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
2026-10-13 · My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body — John says many people on his tour asked why he hasn't written a sequel to The Anthropocene Reviewed; he wants to ask why they want a sequel to his least commercially successful project. (playful) — 00:01:09