John's Paper Towns wins the Edgar Award (2009)
story · status: told 1× · last event: mentioned (2026-02-13)
On 30 April 2009 John's novel Paper Towns won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, which came with a bust of Edgar Allan Poe; in 2022 John addressed that bust again in a video.
About: Paper Towns, Edgar Award, Mystery Writers of America, Edgar Allan Poe
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-05-04 (said on 2009-05-03, implied) (happened 2009-04-30) | told | John tells Hank that on Thursday night (30 April 2009) Paper Towns won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America, so he now owns a bust of Poe. · also in: What Could You Do with a Poe Bust?! | Oinkbarf Pandemic! An Intellectual Response to Swine Flu 00:00:27 |
| 2022-09-30 (happened 2009-04-30) | mentioned | 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) | COMMIT TO THE BIT 00:00:00 |
| 2026-02-13 | mentioned | John notes that Paper Towns won an Edgar Award. | Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff! 03:07:36 |
Dates are upload dates, which set the order. Where the speaker gives a different recording date in the video, it is added as "said on YYYY-MM-DD, implied" (derived from the date said in the video).
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 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 · also in: What Could You Do with a Poe Bust?!
- 2022-09-30 · COMMIT TO THE BIT — John: Echoing Hank's video, John says simple solutions to complex problems are almost always inadequate: we want to be one flipped switch from a better life, but life doesn't work that way. — 00:00:24