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2017

  • 2017-06-22 · My New Book — ask: The description asks viewers to pre-order signed copies of Turtles All the Way Down at their local bookstore or listed retailers. — video description
  • 2017-06-22 · My New Book — announcement: John: Amazon and Barnes & Noble have sold through their allocations of signed copies of Turtles All the Way Down; unsigned copies can still be pre-ordered there. — video description
  • 2017-06-22 · My New Book — recommendation: John urges readers to pre-order Turtles All the Way Down from their local bookstore and to support local bookstores if they can. — video description
  • 2017-06-22 · My New Book — John thanks his editor Julie Strauss-Gabel, who has edited every book he has written and worked with him on this story for years, everyone at Penguin Random House, and everyone who sent him encouraging notes or comments over the years. — video description
  • 2017-06-22 · My New Book — announcement: John announces he has written a book, Turtles All the Way Down, out October 10 and available for pre-order now. — 00:00:02
  • 2017-06-22 · My New Book — announcement: John says the novel is about a young woman trying to solve a mystery while also trying to live with mental illness. — 00:00:22
  • 2017-06-22 · My New Book — John says the story, though made up, is personal, because he has a mental illness that at times has taken over his life. — 00:00:29
  • 2017-06-22 · My New Book — John says he is so happy to be finished with a book he is proud of, and hopes viewers like it. — 00:00:44
  • 2017-06-22 · My New Book — ask: John asks viewers to leave their questions in the comments. — 00:01:01
  • 2017-06-23 · Reviewing Musicals from their Wikipedia Pages — Hank congratulates John on Turtles All the Way Down, saying he is really proud of him and very excited for it. — 00:03:44
  • 2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — John: Turtles All the Way Down will have a first printing of about 1.5 million copies, too many to sign. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • 2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — announcement: John will sign at least 200,000 copies of the book, hopefully slightly more. (hedged) — 00:01:08
  • 2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — announcement: John: Asked whether all pre-orders of Turtles All the Way Down will be signed, John says clearly no. — 00:01:13
  • 2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — announcement: John: Turtles All the Way Down has two ISBNs, one for signed books; bookstores, Target and Amazon will all have signed copies, and ordering that ISBN gives the best chance of a signature at no extra cost. — 00:02:08
  • 2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — John: Sarah turned the 2011 chart into a 2017 thermometer resting on stacked turtles; since January John has signed 80,000 and has about two months to reach his goal. (hedged) — 00:02:52
  • 2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — John says he is so excited and also so relieved to have a new book coming out. — 00:03:24
  • 2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — ask: John tells viewers in the US or Canada they can pre-order a signed copy at their local bookstore or via the links in the description. — 00:03:27
  • 2017-06-27 · UNBOXING — ask: John: In a P.S., John asks for help deciding which Sharpie colours to use, via a survey in the description. — 00:03:37
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — ask: The description says signed copies of Turtles All the Way Down can probably, not definitely, be pre-ordered in the US and Canada at the listed links. (hedged) — video description
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — John thanks everyone who has pre-ordered the book, signed or unsigned, for their support, and calls the experience intimidating but very exciting. — video description
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — John: Still on vacation, John brought 35,000 sheets of paper and has signed very nearly 120,000 sheets. — 00:00:02
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — announcement: John signs every sheet and sends them to Pennsylvania, where they are bound one by one into copies of Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:00:16
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — announcement: John: Turtles All the Way Down will be published on October 10th, so it has to be printed somewhat in advance. — 00:00:23
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — John: Asked whether his signature is worth negative four dollars on Amazon, John thinks it is negative three: the signed edition is currently cheaper there than the unsigned one. (hedged) — 00:00:34
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — John: Why 200,000? At the time it seemed like enough, but not too much. — 00:00:57
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — John: A selfish reason: for 2,000 days or so of writing this book John rarely knew if his work would make it in or bring him closer; signing, he knows people will like it and each one gets him closer to done. (hedged) — 00:01:14
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — John: Viewers' votes are deciding the colour breakdown of the last hundred thousand signatures. — 00:02:37
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — announcement: John: Along with his signature John sometimes draws a spiral, for reasons readers of the book will see. — 00:02:44
  • 2017-07-11 · Signing 200,000 Autographs — ask: John: The signed edition has its own ISBN, with links in the doobly-doo, but the book is available pretty much wherever books are sold. — 00:03:22
  • 2017-07-18 · Accio Decade Hallows — John: Signing update: John is just past 135,000 signatures. — 00:00:00
  • 2017-07-18 · Accio Decade Hallows — ask: The description invites viewers to order a probably signed copy of Turtles All the Way Down. — video description
  • 2017-07-18 · Accio Decade Hallows — John: Without the song they wouldn't have met Esther or the people behind the Project for Awesome, Hank probably wouldn't have sung before thousands, and John doubts he would be signing 200,000 copies of his new book. (hedged) — 00:03:34
  • 2017-07-25 · What OCD Is Like (for Me) — John says that when he began the book that became Turtles All the Way Down he wanted to give form and expression to the experience of living inside thought spirals. — 00:02:55
  • 2017-07-25 · What OCD Is Like (for Me) — announcement: John says the book is totally fictional, beginning from imagining a 16-year-old girl, Aza Holmes, trying to be a good daughter, friend, student and maybe detective while living with terrifying thought spirals. — 00:03:05
  • 2017-08-01 · Death and How to Avoid It (...for a while) — announcement: John says Amazon has sold through its allocation of signed copies of Turtles All the Way Down; unsigned copies are still available for preorder there, and other places sell probably signed copies. — video description
  • 2017-08-01 · Death and How to Avoid It (...for a while) — John: Signing update: John has about 34,000 copies to go, about 68 hours of signing, which he thinks is doable. (hedged) — 00:03:22
  • 2017-08-01 · Death and How to Avoid It (...for a while) — ask: John says Amazon will soon run out of its signed Turtles All the Way Down copies, though bookstores across the US and Canada will have many, with updates at probablysignedturtles.com; Amazon buyers should buy now. (hedged) — 00:03:28
  • 2017-08-15 · Very Hard to Desclibe — announcement: John reveals the cover of Turtles All the Way Down, designed by Rodrigo Corral, who did the cover of The Fault in Our Stars; he calls it beautiful. — 00:00:01
  • 2017-08-15 · Very Hard to Desclibe — John says the cover captures the feeling of the thought spirals at the center of the book. (hedged) — 00:00:12
  • 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
  • 2017-08-15 · Very Hard to Desclibe — John is reading the final manuscript of Turtles All the Way Down today because it goes to the printer tomorrow. — 00:00:33
  • 2017-08-15 · Very Hard to Desclibe — John says this is probably his last full reading of the book: once something is published and he can't change it, he finds it unbearable to read. (hedged) — 00:00:38
  • 2017-08-15 · Very Hard to Desclibe — John says it's an emotional day: for six years the book has been mostly his, and after today it will belong to the people who read it, which is exciting but hard to describe. — 00:00:45
  • 2017-08-15 · Very Hard to Desclibe — John says he just really hopes people like the book, but from tomorrow there's nothing he can do. — 00:01:01
  • 2017-08-15 · Very Hard to Desclibe — John has signed 184,000 sheets and is on the first of the two turtles; eight boxes (16,000 sheets, about 32 hours) remain, and he must finish by Monday (21 August 2017). — 00:01:07
  • 2017-08-15 · Very Hard to Desclibe — announcement: John says Amazon has sold out its allotment of probably signed copies of Turtles All the Way Down, but many remain, for instance at Books-A-Million; more at ProbablySignedTurtles.com. — 00:01:47
  • 2017-08-15 · Very Hard to Desclibe — announcement: John announces that he and Hank are going on tour when Turtles All the Way Down comes out in October, their first tour together since 2012. — 00:02:39
  • 2017-08-29 · 40 — announcement: John announces he has finished signing all 200,000 copies of Turtles All the Way Down; the boxes are gone. — 00:02:30
  • 2017-08-29 · 40 — announcement: John says the 200,000 signed sheets are now at the printer in Virginia being bound into copies of Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:02:34
  • 2017-08-29 · 40 — announcement: John says Amazon and barnesandnoble.com have sold out their allotments of signed copies, but there are many other ways to get them; more info at probablysignedturtles.com. — 00:02:39
  • 2017-08-29 · 40 — announcement: John announces that his video next week (5 September 2017) will be him reading the first chapter of Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:02:47
  • 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
  • 2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — ask: The description points to pre-ordering a probably signed copy (out October 10) or an unsigned one anywhere, and invites viewers to see Hank and John on tour. — video description
  • 2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — announcement: John says this video is him reading the first chapter of Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:00:02
  • 2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — announcement: John says all you need to know is that the story is narrated by a 16-year-old girl named Aza Holmes. (hedged) — 00:00:06
  • 2017-09-05 · John Reads the First Chapter of Turtles All the Way Down — ask: John points viewers who want to pre-order the book to links below. — 00:10:25
  • 2017-09-07 · I Love and Apologize to (Insert Location Here): Surprise Thursday Bonus Video! — announcement: John announces that he and Hank are going on tour for the first time since 2012, to celebrate the release of Turtles All the Way Down and to spend a few weeks together. — 00:00:03
  • 2017-09-07 · I Love and Apologize to (Insert Location Here): Surprise Thursday Bonus Video! — announcement: John lists the tour's 19 stops in one take, from New York through the South, Midwest and Northwest to two San Francisco Bay Area shows and Los Angeles, including Hank's high school auditorium in Orlando. — 00:00:25
  • 2017-09-07 · I Love and Apologize to (Insert Location Here): Surprise Thursday Bonus Video! — announcement: John says sadly Hank will not be at the shows in Asheville and Atlanta. — 00:01:03
  • 2017-09-07 · I Love and Apologize to (Insert Location Here): Surprise Thursday Bonus Video! — announcement: John says every ticket comes with a signed copy of Turtles All the Way Down and other goodies. — 00:02:11
  • 2017-09-07 · I Love and Apologize to (Insert Location Here): Surprise Thursday Bonus Video! — announcement: John says there will be no signing after the shows, partly because of the venues' size but mostly because of his brain malfunctioning; he is sorry and has struggled with it. — 00:02:16
  • 2017-09-12 · How Will the World End? Why Even Get Out of Bed? It's Question Tuesday. — John says he wrote Turtles All the Way Down mostly in bed, so he does not follow his own advice. (playful) — 00:01:00
  • 2017-09-12 · How Will the World End? Why Even Get Out of Bed? It's Question Tuesday. — announcement: John says the Turtles tour shows in Bellingham, Chicago and Atlanta are sold out, sorry it happened so fast. — 00:01:47
  • 2017-09-12 · How Will the World End? Why Even Get Out of Bed? It's Question Tuesday. — announcement: John says Turtles All the Way Down will be translated into Spanish and other languages, and shows the Spanish cover. — 00:02:53
  • 2017-09-15 · My Butt Has Some Complaints About Australia — announcement: The description links tour tickets and says the Orlando show is still not on sale; they are working hard to sort it out. — video description
  • 2017-09-19 · Why Cities? — announcement: The description says that before Hank's novel the brothers are going on tour for John's new novel, Turtles All the Way Down. — video description
  • 2017-09-29 · What's This Video About? — Hank: Asked what Turtles All the Way Down is about, Hank thinks of its themes: relationships with people whose brains have problems, understanding people who experience the world differently, amid dramatic inequality. — 00:02:55
  • 2017-09-29 · What's This Video About? — Hank says the book's plot is great too, very interesting and kept him hooked throughout. — 00:02:58
  • 2017-09-29 · What's This Video About? — Hank is really proud of John and his book and can't wait for others to read it. — 00:03:52
  • 2017-10-03 · Let's Talk about Books — announcement: John's new book, Turtles All the Way Down, comes out in exactly one week. — 00:00:00
  • 2017-10-03 · Let's Talk about Books — recommendation: John loved David Adam's The Man Who Couldn't Stop, a good starting place for Turtles readers who want to learn more about OCD. — 00:02:27
  • 2017-10-03 · Let's Talk about Books — recommendation: John looks forward to unread books out this month (October 2017), Okorafor's Akata Warrior, Lockhart's Genuine Fraud and Stiefvater's All the Crooked Saints, so his tour reading is sorted. (hedged) — 00:02:56
  • 2017-10-03 · Let's Talk about Books — announcement: John: In one week Turtles will be out and the brothers on tour; Nerdfighters can find out more at turtlesallthewaydownbook.com. — 00:02:56
  • 2017-10-06 · The World's Largest Fruits — Hank tells John to be at peace: he will be fine, his book is great and people will love it. — 00:03:34
  • 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — announcement: John: On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, from a New York City hotel floor, John announces Turtles All the Way Down is out in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and several other countries. — 00:00:00
  • 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — recommendation: John points readers to a New York Times story about his own mental illness and the writing of the book, and quotes Booklist's starred review calling it challenging but richly rewarding and his most mature work. — video description
  • 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — John hopes readers like the book and thanks everyone who stuck with him over the six years he struggled to write it. — video description
  • 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — ask: John thanks those who have already read the book, hopes they liked it, and asks them not to spoil it for other people. — 00:00:12
  • 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — announcement: John has created a spoiler subreddit for the book where readers can discuss it with each other and ask him questions directly; the link is in the description. — 00:00:27
  • 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — John: About to go on stage for their rehearsal show, John is super stressed while Hank is just chilling. — 00:00:36
  • 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — John signed over 200,000 copies of the US edition, so autographed copies should be easy to find, except outside the US and Canada, for which he apologises. (hedged) — 00:00:51
  • 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — announcement: John: Recording a later insert, John shares generous reviews: the Wall Street Journal called it tender, wise and hopeful, the New York Times wrenching and revelatory; Booklist and SLJ gave starred reviews. — 00:01:04
  • 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — Hank: After their first warm-up show, Hank says it was only a rehearsal, yet to his surprise 150 people were going to be there; the brothers agree the audience was very nice. — 00:01:23
  • 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — John: Hank forgot the words to all his songs, but a young woman in the front row knew them all, so it worked out; Hank says differently from expected rather than better. (playful) — 00:01:42
  • 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — announcement: John: The final hardcover hides a secret under its dust jacket, designed by people in Nerdfighteria; the brothers do not show it on camera. — 00:01:57
  • 2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video — ask: John repeats that the book is out and asks readers to talk about spoilers on the linked subreddit, not in the comments. — 00:03:27
  • 2017-10-17 · Look at Tiny Baby Hank — recommendation: The description links Laura Miller's review in Slate and Constance Grady's in Vox, which calls the book 'an existential teenage scream'. — video description
  • 2017-10-17 · Look at Tiny Baby Hank — recommendation: John adds that Jennifer Senior's review of the book in the New York Times was very kind. — video description
  • 2017-10-17 · Look at Tiny Baby Hank — ask: John asks readers who want to discuss Turtles All the Way Down with spoilers to go to its spoiler subreddit. — video description
  • 2017-10-17 · Look at Tiny Baby Hank — announcement: John: Now in Nashville (the rest of his Orlando footage got corrupted), John says it has been an awesome week: they have performed for more than 10,000 people, including spouses, children, parents and elementary school teachers. — 00:01:15
  • 2017-10-17 · Look at Tiny Baby Hank — announcement: John: Turtles All the Way Down has reached number one on Amazon's bestseller list. — 00:01:23
  • 2017-10-17 · Look at Tiny Baby Hank — announcement: John: The book has received extremely generous reviews, maybe the two best any of John's books have ever received; he will link them below. (hedged) — 00:01:26
  • 2017-10-17 · Look at Tiny Baby Hank — John: Reading people's thoughtful responses to the book has brought John to tears again and again this week (week of 16 October 2017). — 00:01:34
  • 2017-10-17 · Look at Tiny Baby Hank — John: Watching Hank perform at his old high school, John thinks of Hank's kindness: a month away from family and jobs to tour with him, his Twitter profile turned into turtles, and constant support since high school; John is lucky and grateful. — 00:01:56
  • 2017-10-24 · Tour Bus Bus Tour — John signed what he believes is every copy of Turtles All the Way Down for sale or borrowing in Sioux Falls, meeting librarians, booksellers and confused Target shoppers. (hedged) — 00:00:05
  • 2017-10-24 · Tour Bus Bus Tour — John: The bus holds a bag of 850 plastic turtles, and turtles are everywhere: in the shoe closet, the Sharpie drawer, the microwave and the popcorn and applesauce drawer. — 00:02:38
  • 2017-10-27 · The Secret to my Productivity — announcement: Hank: Tickets are still available for the tour shows in San Francisco and Pleasanton. — video description
  • 2017-10-30 · I Mustache You: A Pizzamas Reunion! — John hasn't shaved since the book came out; when Hank guesses luck or AFC Wimbledon, John answers 'That's the business!' (playful) — 00:00:15
  • 2017-11-03 · Because We're Here — John says their tour ended last night (2 November 2017) in Los Angeles; almost every night for the past month he watched Hank's set from the side of the stage. — 00:00:01
  • 2017-11-06 · Banana Milk and Almond Orchards — Hank: At the last show of the tour, a big venue, Hank thanks people for showing up early, shows the books John will sign in the basement, and thanks whoever gave them donuts. — 00:02:19
  • 2017-11-06 · Banana Milk and Almond Orchards — Hank is glad to have shared the intense tour with John and many others, made people happy and thought out loud about being a person, but very happy to be home. — 00:03:38
  • 2017-11-07 · Definitely Not A Pecan Orchard: A Pizzamas Question Tuesday — Hank: Asked how the tour has been, Hank says 'so good, so good, so good'. (playful) — 00:00:25
  • 2017-11-07 · Definitely Not A Pecan Orchard: A Pizzamas Question Tuesday — announcement: John says the book has been number one on the New York Times bestseller list for three straight weeks, and thanks everybody. — 00:00:38
  • 2017-11-09 · The New Zealand Five Cent Coin — John: The months before Turtles All the Way Down came out were difficult for John: overwhelmed by worry about its reception, the tour and publicity, and how to talk about his own mental illness. — 00:00:04
  • 2017-11-09 · The New Zealand Five Cent Coin — announcement: John notes that tuatara play a role in his new book. — 00:00:23
  • 2017-11-21 · Two Love Stories — John: The Turtles All the Way Down tour returned to Washington, DC two days before their wedding; they came, and the brothers gave them a KitchenAid mixer and champagne. — 00:00:43
  • 2017-11-21 · Two Love Stories — John: Before the Turtles tour returned to Cincinnati, Kenny wrote John on Reddit that he met his girlfriend at John's signing five years ago and wanted advice on proposing. — 00:01:53
  • 2017-11-24 · The Bizarro History of Black Friday: (AND 2017 CENSUS!) — announcement: Hank: DFTBA has 500 signed copies of Turtles All the Way Down from Penguin, sold with a tuatara pin and a turtle sticker pack. — 00:02:17
  • 2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money — announcement: John: In a mock-casual aside, John notes that Turtles All the Way Down is in bookstores everywhere and the New York Times just named it one of its favorite books of the year. (playful) — 00:00:40
  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — John says his new novel is extremely quiet and takes place almost entirely inside one person's head, which doesn't usually lend itself to film. — 00:02:15
  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — John says his big challenge in Turtles was using language to express obsessive thoughts directly rather than only through metaphor, giving a glimpse of what OCD is, a profoundly non-visual thing. — 00:02:24
  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — announcement: John: After two months of talks on telling the story visually without the old OCD tropes, John announces that the studio and production company behind his earlier films will try to make a Turtles movie. — 00:02:51
  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — announcement: John says this doesn't mean there will definitely be a movie, only that there might be one. (hedged) — 00:03:06
  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — John says the book does belong to readers, but he had to make this decision on its behalf, and he really trusts the people working on it. — 00:03:22
  • 2017-12-05 · On the Movies — John thanks everyone who has made Turtles All the Way Down a No. 1 New York Times bestseller for seven weeks straight. — 00:03:28
  • 2017-12-08 · I Have (a little bit) HAD IT! — Hank found in his jean jacket pocket questions from the live Dear Hank and Johns on tour, and will answer them, though not as he would in a good mood. — 00:00:19
  • 2017-12-12 · 2017 is the Best? — ask: John invites donations with perks such as tuatara coins, deleted scenes from Turtles All the Way Down and a personalized self-care bunny, some limited: 'no pressure, em dash, a little bit of pressure'. — 00:03:30
  • 2017-12-15 · Why Big Solutions Fail — ask: Hank says that besides funding this hard work, donors get cool stuff, so viewers should go to projectforawesome.com/donate. — 00:02:31
  • 2017-12-15 · Why Big Solutions Fail — announcement: Hank lists perks: smashed pennies, a commemorative coin, a digital download bundle with outtake scenes from Turtles All the Way Down, socks, bandanas and rocks he is painting. — 00:02:50
  • 2017-12-19 · History Is Happening — ask: John says viewers can still donate until midnight at projectforawesome.com/donate, with perks such as New Zealand nickels, P4A socks and signed copies of Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:01:28
  • 2017-12-19 · History Is Happening — John thanks everyone who took part in the Project for Awesome by donating, making videos, commenting or joining the livestream. — 00:01:45
  • 2017-12-22 · Christmas Questions Answered (With Katherine and Hank) — announcement: Hank: Turtles All the Way Down was named a best book of the year by twelve outlets including The New York Times, Time, NPR and Booklist, and is in bookstores. — 00:02:17

2018

  • 2018-01-16 · My Hollywood Star, Brexit Pears, and Hank's Book: It's QUESTION TUESDAY — John: Answering a hostile question, John says Daisy in Turtles All the Way Down is wrong about a lot but right that Attack of the Clones is the most underrated Star Wars movie. (playful) — 00:01:16
  • 2018-01-16 · My Hollywood Star, Brexit Pears, and Hank's Book: It's QUESTION TUESDAY — announcement: John: There is Turtles All the Way Down merch at DFTBA.com: posters and a pencil set with quotes from the book. — 00:02:28
  • 2018-03-20 · The Russian Reversal — John says he used the construction a lot in Turtles All the Way Down (the storyteller is the story told; money spends you), because the book is about not captaining the ship of your self. — 00:02:15
  • 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
  • 2018-04-24 · This Video is about Red Eyed Tree Frogs? — John really believes, as he wrote in Turtles All the Way Down, that beauty is mostly a matter of attention: what you love matters, but how you love it matters much more. — 00:00:26
  • 2018-06-05 · WHERE IS MY NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY — John: Right now John has no trouble finding Everything You Need to Know About the Goth Scene, or copies of the Swedish edition of Turtles All the Way Down with its amazing cover. (playful) — 00:00:54
  • 2018-06-19 · My Signature Move — John: On about half the sheets John draws spirals, as close as he can get to the Raymond Pettibon painting he wrote about in Turtles All the Way Down; spirals sort of are his signature move even if he doesn't want them to be. (hedged) — 00:02:18
  • 2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes — John reveals an inside joke with himself: each of his books has a prime-minus-one number of chapters; TFIOS and Turtles All the Way Down have 24, Will Grayson, Will Grayson and An Abundance of Katherines 20. — 00:01:12
  • 2018-08-28 · The Book Was Better? — announcement: John has just read Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker's beautiful screenplay adaptation of Turtles All the Way Down; he thinks it might actually become a movie and is excited but nervous. (hedged) — 00:00:10
  • 2018-11-20 · Cause for Celebration — John: When Turtles All the Way Down hit 52 consecutive weeks on the NYT bestseller list, John felt happy briefly, then anxious again; weeks later a quiet champagne toast with Sarah brought overwhelming joy and gratitude. — 00:01:56

2019

  • 2019-02-19 · Battling Apathy and Searching for Meaning on Question Tuesday — announcement: John says Turtles All the Way Down is being made into a movie, hopefully, and Hannah Marks, who is wonderful and often watches these videos, has been hired as director. (hedged) — 00:02:26
  • 2019-03-05 · Way, Way Down the Rabbit Hole — John: At a dead end, John asked Tuataria, the sleuthing community born of his and Rosianna's scavenger hunt before Turtles All the Way Down, to verify his findings and find the pictures. — 00:01:56
  • 2019-04-23 · untitled — John still likes the title Turtles All the Way Down, though it is slightly confusing for a book not about turtles but kind of about a different reptile. — 00:01:27
  • 2019-06-11 · Why I Haven't Written a New Book — John learned it has been 510 days since Turtles All the Way Down came out; a paragraph or two a day would have produced a draft of a sixth novel, but he hasn't written one. — 00:00:00
  • 2019-06-11 · Why I Haven't Written a New Book — announcement: John: The Turtles All the Way Down paperback is published today in the US: cheaper than the hardcover, softer cover, a Q&A at the back and a couple of typos fixed. — 00:00:16
  • 2019-06-11 · Why I Haven't Written a New Book — John is grateful that Turtles All the Way Down was generously received by critics and readers, with reviews in places like The New York Times and The Guardian. — 00:00:45
  • 2019-06-11 · Why I Haven't Written a New Book — announcement: John intends to publish more novels, hopefully many more, and meanwhile is grateful his existing books still find new readers. (hedged) — 00:03:19
  • 2019-09-10 · Another Contender in the Room — John says a Raymond Pettibon painting, when he first saw it, ended up taking over his novel Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:01:27
  • 2019-10-15 · I'm Having a Lot of Feelings — John did not make the show, but remembers waiting for Turtles All the Way Down reviews two years ago with constant nausea, so he is happy and relieved for its makers. — 00:00:58
  • 2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: On December 29, 2016, unsure Turtles All the Way Down would ever be worthwhile, John was alone in a small Michigan cabin with bread, peanut butter and lots of Diet Dr Pepper. — 00:01:45
  • 2019-12-17 · The Best Days of My Decade — John: Stuck on the ending after a sleepless night, John called Sarah in tears; she suggested a time jump, and he wrote the last 15 pages in one go, joyfully, for Aza and himself. — 00:02:02

2020

  • 2020-01-21 · Gifts That Changed My Life — John says that without that gift he might not have written Turtles All the Way Down. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • 2020-02-11 · 1,100 Days: A Mental and Physical Health Update — John: In 2017, after exercising five or six days a week for 100 days, John could run seven or eight miles, slept better, his mental illness had improved dramatically, and he wrote much of Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · a cool place — In a comment John says the river is where he got some Turtles All the Way Down ideas: north of Wallet Island Aza and Daisy visit Davis Pickett's property, and their river island is one he calls Aza Island. — creator comment
  • 2020-06-16 (said on 2020-06-07, implied) · a cool place — In a comment John says his contamination anxieties are very specific and don't include river water; he follows experts' advice calmly, isn't afraid of flying thanks to exposure therapy, and calls pathological thinking definitionally irrational. — creator comment
  • 2020-09-01 · get the show on — John says, as he discussed on the latest podcast episode, the three years since Turtles All the Way Down was published have been long and at times very challenging. — 00:03:24

2021

  • 2021-03-16 · How a Book Cover Gets Designed — John: Some of John's covers are wondrous in their strangeness, like the Swedish cover of Turtles All the Way Down. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 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
  • 2021-04-27 · What is my new book about? — John: Turtles All the Way Down isn't really about a missing billionaire but about mental illness, free will and having your consciousness hijacked by intrusive thoughts. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-05-14 · This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind — Hank: On the Turtles All the Way Down tour John told Hank his idea of star-rating facets of the human-centered world; Hank made Hank Reviews Everything in four minutes and never thought about it again. — 00:01:35
  • 2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: After a month touring for Turtles All the Way Down, published October 2017, John came home to Indianapolis and blazed a trail from his children's treehouse to the office, or shed, where he and his wife work. — 00:00:00
  • 2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: People assumed John shared his protagonists' worldviews or questioned him as if he were the protagonist; a famous interviewer asked whether he, like the narrator of Turtles All the Way Down, had panic attacks when kissing. — 00:02:29
  • 2021-05-25 · The Anthropocene Reviewed, Animated — John: Tempting as it is to make labyrinthitis a metaphor for a life lacking balance, John wrote against such symbolization of disease in his novels: OCD and cancer are illnesses to live with as well as one can, not battles or character flaws. — 00:05:41

2022

  • 2022-01-11 · The Fault in Our Stars - Ten Years Later — John continued the theme in Turtles All the Way Down, writing about what happens when we misunderstand mental illness. — 00:02:55
  • 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
  • 2022-01-28 · The Most Dangerous Thing We've Ever Done on Stage — Hank: On their 2017 tour, Hank and John had Hank play Sweet Caroline on guitar and asked the audience to stay perfectly silent where the crowd chant normally goes. — 00:00:27
  • 2022-04-08 · Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties — John: Asked if he has read fan fiction of his books, John says yes: there is a lot of Isaac-related Fault in Our Stars fan fiction, and versions of the fan fiction Daisy writes in Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-04-08 · Hank and John Discover Chippy Butties — announcement: John reminds Hank that Turtles All the Way Down is really going to be a movie, and introduces a conversation with its star, Isabela Merced. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-04-26 · An Amazing Day — John reports that today is the first day of the Turtles All the Way Down movie shoot, in Cincinnati. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-04-26 · An Amazing Day — recommendation: In a channel comment John notes the film is already a book, about a young woman, Aza, whose mystery-solving is derailed by obsessive thinking, and suggests reading it via a library or bookstore. — creator comment
  • 2022-04-26 · An Amazing Day — John: Part of the book is set at a Chuck E. Cheese; the filmmakers asked to film in one, and Chuck E. Cheese refused, unhappy with John's portrayal. — 00:01:13
  • 2022-04-26 · An Amazing Day — John says the film happens only because many people read and cared about the book, responding generously to its exploration of anxiety, obsessive thinking, free will and other themes. — 00:02:41
  • 2022-05-03 · My Religion and My Banned Books — John says his books, especially Looking for Alaska and Turtles All the Way Down, have lately been removed from US libraries and schools for purported obscenity. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! — announcement: John introduces Cree, who plays Daisy in the Turtles All the Way Down movie. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-05-24 · Hello! Meet Daisy! — Cree Cicchino: Cree says she read the book, calls it gorgeous, and says she devoured it very quickly. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-05-31 · A Casting Announcement — announcement: John recalls that in March The Hollywood Reporter announced Isabela Merced would play Aza in the movie adaptation of his book Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-05-31 · A Casting Announcement — announcement: John announces, as the news no major publication covered, that he has also been cast in the Turtles All the Way Down movie. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2022-06-07 · Hello! Meet Aza! — announcement: John introduces Isabela Merced, the star of the Turtles All the Way Down movie, who plays Aza. — 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
  • 2022-07-05 · Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You — announcement: John introduces Hannah Marks, director of the Turtles All the Way Down movie, and thanks her for directing it. — 00:00:29
  • 2022-07-05 · Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You — Hannah Marks: Hannah's real favourite colour is orange, from the book cover's orange spiral; for luck she wore orange nail polish or an orange shirt when interviewing for the job. — 00:02:19
  • 2022-07-05 · Director Hannah Marks Is Nervous To Meet You — Hannah Marks: Hannah says it is because she loves the book so much: she came in a huge fan. — 00:03:34
  • 2022-09-13 · A Million Things at Once — announcement: John is going to see the first cut of the Turtles All the Way Down film this week (week of 12 September 2022); release is a long way off, and he is very excited and a little nervous. — 00:00:00

2023

  • 2023-10-17 · My Next Book — John: In November 2017, just after publishing Turtles All the Way Down and a grueling tour, John's balance failed at home; he was hospitalized and diagnosed with labyrinthitis. — 00:00:00

2024

  • 2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies — John says that the day after Turtles All the Way Down came out, a movie studio offered to option it. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies — announcement: John announces he got a call saying the Turtles All the Way Down movie is coming out later this year (2024) on Max. — 00:04:22
  • 2024-04-04 · The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie looks WEIRD!!! — announcement: Hank makes an extra Thursday video to announce that the Turtles All the Way Down trailer is out and the release date is May 2 on Max, formerly (and still in Europe) HBO Max. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-04-09 · Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX — announcement: John: Answering viewers, John says the Turtles All the Way Down film will stream on Max in the UK, the Netherlands and other listed places, out May 2 in most places including the US. — 00:04:57
  • 2024-04-09 · Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX — John says the movie is so good; nobody paid him to say so, and they can't, which is part of why he took the deal he took. — 00:05:23
  • 2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — John asks viewers to keep in mind in the coming weeks that he already got paid for the Turtles All the Way Down film, so financially he does not care whether they see it. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — John guesses that a big audience for the film might sell a few more books, but not many, and the book already has a great life. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • 2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — recommendation: John calls the Turtles All the Way Down movie brilliant, with extraordinary performances, the best portrayal of OCD as he experiences it he has seen in a movie, and funny and human. — 00:01:46
  • 2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — John says that once in a while hundreds of people come together to make something wonderful, and that happened with the Turtles All the Way Down movie. — 00:02:45
  • 2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — announcement: John says the film's trailer is live, linked in the description, and the film comes out May 2nd on Max. — 00:03:14
  • 2024-04-23 · Full Hank — announcement: John says the Turtles All the Way Down film comes out May 2 on Max. — 00:01:40
  • 2024-04-23 · Full Hank — John watched the film with an audience of about 1,400 at the LA Times book festival: incredible, special to feel the room's energy and read the responses afterwards. — 00:01:40
  • 2024-04-30 · Not Doing That Great — John got home last night from the amazing LA premiere of the Turtles All the Way Down film, celebrated with its makers, Kirsten Dunst, YouTube friends, Rosianna and the cast; his kids saw one of his movies for the first time and loved it. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-05-03 · Everything Wrong with Turtles All the Way Down — Hank says that although John and many others worked hard on the Turtles All the Way Down film, nothing is immune from critique, so he feels morally obliged to list everything wrong with it. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2024-05-03 · Everything Wrong with Turtles All the Way Down — Hank complains that in the film Daisy and Aza sit by the window at Applebee's, not on the interior side as he imagined when reading the book. (joke) — 00:00:00
  • 2024-05-03 · Everything Wrong with Turtles All the Way Down — announcement: Hank says the film is on Max; in the US Max can be had through the Play Store, the App Store, Amazon Prime or Max.com. — 00:02:39
  • 2024-05-07 · A Secret about Art — announcement: The description says the Turtles All the Way Down film is streaming on Max now and thanks everyone who brought their deepest selves to it. — video description
  • 2024-05-07 · A Secret about Art — John: Interviewing himself, John says he is thrilled with the response to the film so far: despite a minuscule marketing budget, it has reached so many people. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-05-07 · A Secret about Art — John: On his first day on set, talking with the makeup department about Aza's callus, John realized they had read the book and considered how to show it without sensationalizing it. — 00:01:38
  • 2024-05-17 · John and Hank FIGHT FOR DOMINANCE!!! — John shows Hank a prop from the Turtles All the Way Down film, from the grand opening ceremony of the Pickett Center for Tuatara Research; he calls the beer sword the best prop. — 00:00:29
  • 2024-05-20 · Hang on tight, spider monkey, it's the P4A 2024 MEME REVIEW!! — sponsor: Jarrod: In a clip, Jared reads the sponsor message: the video is brought to you by the Turtles All the Way Down movie, out May 2nd on Max or HBO Max, depending on country. (playful) — 00:07:12
  • 2024-05-21 · Getting Personal about Getting Personal — John says he cannot return to a world where his relationship with his OCD is private, having talked about it publicly so much in the context of Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:01:05
  • 2024-05-21 · Getting Personal about Getting Personal — John and Sarah attended the Turtles All the Way Down premiere together; there he met a People reporter who was great, super respectful and incredibly well prepared. — 00:01:27
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: John says the book is not a young adult novel like The Fault in Our Stars or Turtles All the Way Down; it is not the opposite of his previous work, but it is different. — 00:00:10
  • 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

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! — 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: It is John's first novel in nine years: almost nine years have passed since Turtles All the Way Down came out. — 00:00:00
  • 2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret… — John did not write it mainly in the last year: he has been working on Hollywood, Ending (with a comma in the title) since finishing Turtles All the Way Down. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong — John, recalling Turtles All the Way Down, says he is troubled that about half his body's cells are bacteria and other organisms whose chemicals change how he thinks. — 00:01:27
  • 2026-07-07 · On the Death of the Author — John: In Turtles All the Way Down John tried to accept the problem and talked about his own OCD alongside the character's, which made him feel squeamish. — 00:04:25
  • 2026-10-16 · Is Happiness the Goal? — Hank: On the 2017 Turtles tour Hank worked on the line edits for his book in the back of the tour bus. — 00:00:00

Also named in: Project for Awesome 2026 part 4!