Will Grayson, Will Grayson

2010-04-03 · John · watch on YouTube · Books & writing · announcement promotion

Four days before release, John presents Will Grayson, Will Grayson, the novel he wrote in alternating chapters with David Levithan, and reads its opening pages.

What is said

00:00:00 — Will Grayson, Will Grayson out in four days: shiny cover, pre-order link, premise, a book for high school and up

• ★★★ John says Will Grayson, Will Grayson, the new book he wrote with David Levithan, comes out in four days. — 00:00:00 · Will Grayson, Will Grayson, David Levithan
• ★★ John points to a link in the description for pre-ordering Will Grayson, Will Grayson. — 00:00:00 · Will Grayson, Will Grayson
• ★★ John describes the book: two different guys both named Will Grayson, David writing one and John the other; they meet mid-book at a porn store, with nothing pervy about it. — 00:00:00 · Will Grayson, Will Grayson, David Levithan
• ★★ John says the book is definitely for high school students and up, not for middle school or younger readers. — 00:00:00 · Will Grayson, Will Grayson

00:00:44 — Alternating chapters and five years of writing; John reads the opening of the novel (Tiny Cooper, the two rules)

• ★★ John wrote the odd-numbered chapters and David the even ones; they have worked on the book for more than five years, since before Looking for Alaska was published. — 00:00:44 · Will Grayson, Will Grayson, David Levithan, Looking for Alaska
• ★ John says it is crazy exciting and nerve-making to have the book finally coming out and to see its shiny cover. — 00:00:44 · Will Grayson, Will Grayson
• ★★★ In keeping with tradition, John reads the opening of the novel: narrator Will Grayson on his best friend Tiny Cooper, who falls in love every hour and calls Will a robot. (fiction) — 00:00:44 · Will Grayson, Will Grayson
• ★★ In the excerpt Will says he has not cried since he was seven and that crying is avoidable with two rules: don't care too much, and shut up. (fiction) — 00:02:31 · Will Grayson, Will Grayson

00:03:00 — Hope you like it, tour, advance-copy winners in the description, when did you last cry, congratulations on Hank's Chatroulette song; sign-off

• ★★ John announces that the YouTube usernames of the advance reader's copy winners are in the description. — 00:03:00 · Will Grayson, Will Grayson
• ★ John hopes viewers like the book and hopes to see a lot of them on tour. (hedged) — 00:03:00
• ★★ John asks Hank and Nerdfighters when they last cried; for him, he says, it was yesterday. — 00:03:00 · Nerdfighteria
• ★ John congratulates Hank on writing the best song ever about Chatroulette. — 00:03:29

Humor (significant)

• YouTube moved the description box below the video, where John points when he says doobly-doo. — 00:00:00 > «only to have YouTube move it to my pants.»
• John admires the shiny finished book and its hoped-for human readers. — 00:00:00 > «we also wanted to target the secondary audience of cats.»
• The book is not for middle school, elementary school or preschool students. — 00:00:44 > «or preschool students, or a child of the brothers.»
• Asking when everyone last cried, John says for him it was not at seven like his narrator. — 00:03:00 > «It was when I was, uh, yesterday.»

Threads in this video

• remind · John asks viewers to pre-order Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010) — John points viewers to a pre-order link for Will Grayson, Will Grayson in the description. (00:00:00)
• update · John: give away five Will Grayson, Will Grayson advance copies to random commenters (2010) — John says the winners of his advance reader's copies of Will Grayson, Will Grayson are listed by YouTube username in the description. (00:03:00)
• open · John asks Hank and Nerdfighters when they last cried (2010) — John asks Hank and Nerdfighters when they last cried, admitting his own was yesterday. (00:03:00)

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