The Fault in Our Stars

Reminder: He isn’t responsible for casting his films.

Turtles All The Way Down, the highly-anticipated young adult novel by Indianapolis-based and The New York Times-bestselling author John Green, finally has an official cover. Announced this morning in a Good Morning America exclusive, the cover features an orange spiral that the author has hinted at on Twitter and in his popular vlogbrothers YouTube channel. […]

Whatever happens next, fans of Green’s video blogs, YouTube channels, Tumblr accounts, Facebook pages, and Twitter feeds can be sure of one thing: He will keep us posted.

“They don’t give you the Executive Producer chair. They give you the cloth chair-back with your name on it, and then you have to buy your own chair.”

‘Tis the season for month-of-May celebrity announcements in Indianapolis, and the latest comes from the organizers of the 2015 KeyBank 500 Festival Snakepit Ball.

“I still buy books at bookstores, and most of our children’s books come from Kids Ink,” he says. “I buy some YA titles there, too.”

Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler’s List is a collection of 17 stories about famous and less-than-famous Indiana residents from Fort Wayne native Michael Martone.

Cara Delevingne will star alongside Nat Wolff, who was previously featured in The Fault in Our Stars and befriended John Green during that movie’s shooting.

Via @JoshuaOwen: “The saddest part of The Fault In Our Stars, was definitely when Augustus fell into the chocolate river and got sucked up into the tube. Sorry for the spoiler.”

While the teen crowd obsesses rabidly over its favorite YA literary characters, its passion often burns out as quickly as a post-prom afterglow.

The film is certainly carried by the performances of Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as its star-crossed, cancer-stricken couple, but it receives much-needed doses of gravitas and vigor from Willem Defoe as the eccentric author of the book over which Hazel and Augustus bond.

“I really like Indianapolis. I like living in a city where real people do real work. I love our friends here. I just went to the BMV, and it was almost pleasurable. It’s almost something I would choose to do on a Tuesday—to go get a driver’s license.”

Hunter-Reay was in the New York neighborhood of Green’s movie premiere to film an episode of The Late Show. Here’s what happened.

There’s a worry when profiling someone as universally beloved as John Green that the story will become a hagiography. The brains behind the bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars couldn’t be as good-hearted and scandal-free as he seems, right?

Via @realjohngreen, “Very sad to hear of the death of Maya Angelou. She was a brilliant writer who used her platform with care and thoughtfulness. Godspeed.”