"John and Hank Green: An Evening of Awesome" at Carnegie Hall
November 16, 2012
“JOHN AND HANK GREEN: AN EVENING OF AWESOME” AT CARNEGIE HALL
An event in celebration of The Fault in Our Stars anniversary, with special guests the Mountain Goats.
November 16, 2012 (New York, NY) – Penguin Young Readers Group is proud to present John and Hank Green at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, with special guests the Mountain Goats, on Tuesday, January 15th at 7:00 PM. “John and Hank Green: An Evening of Awesome” will take place one year after the release of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars(Dutton) and will include special guests, musical performances, and more.
The Fault in Our Stars debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list following its release on January 10, 2012. It has remained in the top 10 for 44 consecutive weeks, with more than 560,000 copies currently in print. Described as “damn near genius” by TIME, the book has already been named among the Best of 2012 by Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and O, The Oprah Magazine among others.
“John and Hank Green: An Evening of Awesome” will be live streamed via the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel so that fans across the country can enjoy what will be a Nerdfighter variety hour and celebration of this vibrant community. Earlier this year, the 17-city tour which followed the release of The Fault in Our Stars sold over 11,300 tickets.
Fox 2000 optioned The Fault in Our Stars for producer Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen of Temple Hill (“Twilight”). Writing duoScott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (“500 Days of Summer”) have adapted the book as a screenplay and Godfrey announced this week that they are in the process of securing a director.
John Green is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and The Fault in Our Stars. He is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. He was the 2006 recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award, a 2009 Edgar Award winner, and has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize. His books have been published in more than twenty languages.
John’s book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review and Booklist, a wonderful book review journal where he worked as a publishing assistant and production editor while writing Looking for Alaska. John lives with his wife and son in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Hank Green is John Green’s brother. They make videos on YouTube and, together, revel in their nerdiness with their viewers, the Nerdfighters. Hank is the co-founder of DFTBA Records, the founder of VidCon, host of SciShow, co-host of Crash Course, and the inventor of 2D Glasses. When he’s not doing any one of those peculiar things, he’s playing Super Mario Brothers Wii with his wife, dog, and cat in Missoula, Montana.
John Darnielle is the lead singer of the Mountain Goats, whose latest album is called Transcendental Youth ("Put on your body armor" -Robert Christgau); lyrics from his 2002 song "Game Shows Touch Our Lives" appear as an epigraph to John Green's Paper Towns. He is considered one of the better lyricists to have emerged from the Guy Jumping Up And Down While Yelling school of songwriting, and has even been known to sit down at the piano; the Boston Globe has called him "America's most startling lyricist." He claims spiritual affinity with all of greater Nerdfighteria, and will defend John, Hank, and all Nerdfighters in all situations foreign or domestic to the last drop of his blood, yea, and even beyond, etc. He is the author of Master of Reality for Continuum's 33 & 1/3 series, and is presently hard at work on a second novel to be published by Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. John will perform at Carnegie Hall in rare-Pokémon duo formation with drummer Jon Wurster, one of the most accomplished drummers of his generation.
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Elyse Marshall, Associate Director of Publicity, Penguin Young Readers Group