Looking for Alaska (…with Alaska)
Looking for Alaska (…with Alaska)
In which John talks about the 8-episode, limited series adaptation of his first novel “Looking for Alaska,” which will be streaming on Hulu starting October 18th. AND ALSO IN ALL THESE PLACES:
· HBO in Central Europe
· HBO in the Nordics
· HBO in Spain
· BBC3 in the UK (October 19th)
· STAN in Australia (October 19th)
More to come as they’re announced! I’ll also be in LA for a Looking for Alaska event on Wednesday, October 16th at The Alex Theatre in Glendale. They’ll be showing a preview of the first episode of the series followed by a discussion about it with the showrunners Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and the actors Timothy Simons (who plays The Eagle), Ron Cephas Jones (who plays Dr. Hyde.), and me. More info and tickets here: https://alextheatre.org/event/los-angeles-times-ideas-exchange-presents-looking-for-alaska?mc_cid=75f1c35d0b&mc_eid=7b773cce51
The Looking for Alaska tie-in edition featuring the Hulu series cast on the cover of the book is now available: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292717/looking-for-alaska-by-john-green/9780593109069
The new audiobook of Looking for Alaska read by Wil Wheaton is also available! Links and also a sample of the audiobook here: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/292717/looking-for-alaska/?ref=PRHD9DF6A1939&ref=PRH936524C1E0
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I was reading the book but… I watched the show before I finished so I kinda spoiled it but I still cried at the end of the book
"What is the meaning of life?" Bro struck her with the question humanity is struggling with lol
Just read the book and watched the series in 4 days. I’m so obsessed I loved the adaptation!! So true to the book 🥲
I haven’t seen the show yet but wow! After reading this book (it’s probably my favorite book), it’s so surreal seeing the cast. They are just like I have imagined them to look!
This tv show and book is pure perfection. Also, Kristine is look like an angel, to be honest.
Haven’t read the book, but I have watched the show and damn… it was beautiful and very sad. The cast was phenomenal, and I will read the book soon.
Just finished watching Looking for Alaska and it is heartbreaking and I cried a lot. Amazing cast, instantly become a fan of Kristine.
Kristine Is Fabules And Amazing Girl!!!! Support From Balkan !!!!! ❤ !!!!!!!
I just recently finish looking for Alaska and I loved it sooo much
This is, without a doubt, my favorite book of yours. Having seen the Hulu Adaptation of it 7 times now, I am constantly & forever broken by just how relevant it was to myself & was the same age & grew up in Alabama during this time period. I had my own “Alaska” and she forever changed my life. We were two young girls just looking for love, acceptance, and escapism from reality in a time when we both were considered outsiders & “the bad kids”. After our junior year of HS ended & summer began, we spent the days walking around downtown Tuscumbia Alabama (the birthplace of Helen Keller!) with 2 other friends (both of whom were a couple & now married!) just enjoying our youth & little bit of freedom. My “Alaska” was moving a week before our senior year began & all the plans we made for our last year & post HS came to a screeching halt. As moving meant she would be totally alone with her dad – the source of all of her nightmares & pain, she ran away. She lived in Spring Park for the first month of Senior Year. I brought her food, clothes, money, camping gear, and anything she needed. We spent nights lying on a sleeping bag, underneath the stars, & anytime I would ask her what we were going to do – she would simply lean in, kiss me gently on the lips, & say “That’s a problem for tomorrow. Tonight we have the stars, all the wishes they can bring, and someone close to embrace whatever comes.” Days turned to months, and fall soon came upon us quick. Her dad never reported her missing, nor did the police ever come looking, as he had moved & everyone just assumed she went with. I spent as many nights as I could, with her falling asleep – head on my shoulder & looking up at me. By the time winter came, I was incredibly nervous & told her my mom was willing to take her in. She was so angry I told her, but she never pulled away. A week before Christmas & with the X-mad break in full swing, I made my way to the park with pure excitement & anxiously awaited a whole 2 1/2 weeks with her. However, her “camp” was gone. In a single empty pack of Marlboro red (soft packs if you remember those!) she had nailed to a tree root, above the disused drain-pipe she’d camped in the day before, a note 2 pages long. She explained her dad had come back in the night, was looking for her, and had to leave. She said she’d meet me after the holidays at the cemetery by my house at 11pm on NYE. I counted the days with anxious anticipation & began working on a plan for her have a safe place to go. I got there a full hour early, hid in a small area of encasing bushes we called our “fortress of solitude” and she never came. That was ~ 20 years ago now & I’ve never found a single trace of her beyond my high school yearbooks, a single faded Polaroid we took a few minutes after our first kiss, and a single plush bear she got me for Valentine’s Day Junior Year that she had covered in CKOne so “even if we were miles away – I could always sense her close & she WOULD BE”.
As I sit here next to my wife watching Alaska for the now 8th time, I wonder if she is still out there. Did she finally find peace (in some form or another), get married too, or was she never able to escape the fate that her dad set her on? Wherever she is, I hope I see my “Alaska” one more time, lay next to her underneath the stars, and can be the one who tells her to not worry about tomorrow – because we are right where we need to be.
-Robin
P.S. No, this isn’t some fictional story but in fact a true one about 2 girls who found love in a town that hated them written by the one who was left behind. I went to UNA a year later, became a part time private investigator, and have spent my life wondering where “E” has been. The trail ran cold in ‘05 after she was last seen by CCTV at a gas station in Nashville TN.
I LOVE YOU GUYS
i just discovered that jay, at the moment is 40!! only seven years younger than john. who the heck expected that??
İs John green’s gf died??
rip Alaska u would have loved John green
Well now I need a new book and have a show to watch
The meaning of life: "Wow, that’s an incredibly complex question. Let me say what I believe is the point of life in general: Perpetuate life. And what is a good life for a human: Make the human world better (and maybe even the world in general) and be happy."
nothing will beat this john green book adaptation. who decided that it should be a series? i owe my life to you.
i still listen to it like an audiobook. i still watch it religiously. i still feel frozen in time *the days after*. i still have faith in almost everything.
i love you, alaska, my crooked neighbor, with all my crooked heart.
💌❣💗
I only recently read the book and just finished the show. I enjoyed the book but it was an emotional struggle close to home as I have a friend who took their own life. I really enjoyed the show. The show was able to add so much more depth to the would Miles lived in. The cast was/is amazing. I loved the added bits about their world religions teacher.
What did she say her last words would be??
I am in love with alaska,hopelessly
And this book was found in elementary schools terrible
KRISTINE IS SO… 🥰🥰🥰
I was forced to read this book in clas in 2019 in the original. I did not enjoy it i was bored enough in the rain today and I read it again. This time I liked it a lot more.
I just read the book last night. I wanted to cry. I hadn’t cried reading a book in _years_ . (Since I read the fault in our stars. John green always makes me cry)
Why no questions for the Colonel ? 🤔
I NEED SEASON 2 NOW
Read Looking for Alaska ages ago. Liked it.
looking for alaska is my fave book..
i was crying during the last episode, and i embreced it. ❤️ thank you John Green for this specail story.
i will never stop talking about this series. i’m 32 and i have watched it 22 times through. i feel such a deep connection with it, especially as a private school kid in 2005, who lived on all of the songs they used in the series (from the ben gibbard songs, to the gorillaz, to modest mouse, etc.) but most importantly, it depicts the juxtaposition of the love and grief i have dealt with, not just throughout my adolescence, but also in my adulthood, so well that i will return to it time and time again. i CANNOT thank you enough for not only writing this book (which i am finally reading), but allowing it to be depicted visually, and so beautifully at that.
This book has changed my life. I’m a junior in high school, and all my life i’ve disliked ELA classes and reading, especially when they would assign books, i hated reading and audio book. Until I read Looking for Alaska, I got to pick it out of a list of books recommended to me, and I thought this book was going to be more adventurous like the book Into wild which we read earlier this year. But I can safely say its not, and this book is the first book I’ve read front to back on my own, and I’ve enjoyed it. and It has changed how I view books, I’ve been starting to put my phone down to read, and see what happens next. So, thank you John Green.
My feeling : 😱😍🥹😭🥺 10/10
Book amazing cast amazing the series amazing just no words 🤍🤍
kristine is the best actress to play alaska in my opinion, she’s just like how i imagined alaska while reading the book, all the characteristics and the vibes!
Why did this get taken off of Hulu??!! :((((
mr john green i watched that show on a internet site because hulu doesnt work with my country and needs an american credit card or paypal (paypal also banned). if one day i live in the usa or hulu comes here, im gonna pay it with montly membership. forgive me for now. thanks.
I just read the whole book because I wanted to know what the scene was that got Looking For Alaska banned, and now I have just cried for an hour about the death of Alaska
As a 54-year-old man with teenage children I recently read this book for the first time. I was reading it to see if it would be a good read for my kids. My kids are 8, 10 and 12, so no. Not a good read for them now. However, in reading the book I kept saying to myself. I hope this is never option for a movie. There are some pieces of literature that just don’t lend themselves to movie adaptations and so when I found out this book had been optioned, I was delighted to discover how involved John was in that process. I don’t think I will ever watch the series, but I’m glad that it exists for the people who need it.
So I was telling my brother he should check out looking for Alaska on hulu because it was really good adaptation, but in no way did I realize that it came our 3 years ago I feel like I just watched it for the first time recently 😐
The Hulu version of Looking for Alaska is in my opinion the best film adaptation of John’s books… changed my life reading that book… over ten years ago 😭
How is she alive?
I’m getting a tattoo based on this book/show
she´s so real for being obsessed with j cole
On the off chance you’re reading this. A friend of mine is contemplating suicide and sort of taking Alaska as a model. What can I say to them?
I always come back to Looking for Alaska. I’m graduating from American Literature department, not to be mean or anything but I probably have read a lot of books with literary value… but Looking for Alaska has such a special place for me. I always come back to this book whenever I feel depressed or hopeless. I’m from Turkey and a couple months back we had a massive earthquake, and honestly the way this book portrays and teaches how to find hope after tragedy is so special to me. I first read it when I was around 14 years old. and, years later I still go back to it. thank you, John
I wish they had cast an actual Romanian girl as Lara
Хуль так быстро говоришь дядь
omg Finland mentioned❤
I had no idea they turned this into a show as well 😭wth
Alaska looks just like how i imagined ..man it’s been a while since i read that book ..but it was my favourite along with fault in our stars