Friday, November 28, 2025

Interview with writer John Green

The following is a very interesting interview, for the New York Times's Sunday magazine, with writer John Green, who is no doubt best known for his YA novel The Fault in Our Stars. The book was published in 2012, and has sold more than twenty million copies.

Mr. Green is also the author of the 2025 non-fiction work, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection.

The interviewer is The Times's David Marchese, who is one of the two alternating hosts of the paper's regular feature "The Interview"; the transcripts of the interviews appear, along with videos of the conversations. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/magazine/john-green-interview.html?smid=url-share

The videos are also available as podcasts, on various platforms (including YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts).

Lulu Garcia-Navarro is The Interview's other host. 

While I have read a number of "The Interview" features, this is the first time I have watched the video version--a video, for what it is worth, that I found to be particularly vivid, and absorbing.  Some of the most compelling aspects of the interview concern Mr. Green's experiences with anxiety, and the several months he spent, as a young man, working as a chaplain at a hospital for severely sick children--and the effect that working at the hospital had on the course of his life.

Here is the link to the YouTube page for "The Interview"series:

https://www.youtube.com/@theinterviewpodcast