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John Green Sipped Hot Cups of This Coffee While Writing “Hollywood, Ending,” His Brand New Novel
Green’s Hollywood novel follows two young actors whose romance is strained by fame, studio pressure and personal trauma, after he sought notes from industry readers.
Bestselling author John Green released Hollywood, Ending on Thursday, marking his first novel in nine years and his debut written for adults.
Known for defining the young adult genre with The Fault in Our Stars, Green took a nine-year hiatus from fiction, focusing instead on nonfiction and founding VidCon with his brother Hank.
The story follows two young actors, Kai, 20, and Juniper, 22, who fall in love on an Andy Warhol biopic set while confronting Hollywood pressures and personal trauma.
On October 13, Green will discuss the book with Julia Whelan at a ticketed ALOUD event hosted at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills.
Throughout the narrative, Green explores the "dark side of the attention economy" and the commodification of private experience, drawing on his personal experiences with OCD and aphantasia.