Hank Green Talks About His Writing Process and His Debut Novel, “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing”
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Renowned science communicator, entrepreneur, and author Hank Green discusses his debut novel, “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing.” In this special episode of Curiosity Daily, he talks about his writing process, how he approached writing a novel from the perspective of a young woman, some of the themes of the book, and what it was like writing a book as a citizen of the Internet. Plus: get the exclusive scoop on what this book has to do with being a pet detective!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Cody Goth. |
| 0:02.0 | And I'm Ashley Heamer. |
| 0:04.0 | This is a very special bonus episode of Curiosity Daily |
| 0:07.0 | with renowned science communicator Hank Green. |
| 0:10.0 | He created the YouTube channel's Crash Course and Sci Show, and he co-stars in the super popular |
| 0:15.3 | Vlog Brothers YouTube channel with his brother and fellow author John Green. |
| 0:19.7 | Hank just published his first book titled An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. |
| 0:24.4 | Ashley and I had the chance to talk to him about it, and we thought we'd share it with you. |
| 0:27.8 | Because Hank is a smart dude, and he's got some really cool insights into what it's like to write a book. If you like it and you want to hear more, |
| 0:34.4 | then you can find the full interview on our Patreon page at Patreon.com |
| 0:38.7 | slash curiosity.com all spelled out for free. Enjoy. |
| 0:43.0 | What's your elevator pitch for the book? |
| 0:45.0 | How do you describe it to somebody who is like, |
| 0:47.0 | all right, what's this book about? |
| 0:49.0 | I think it's about a lot of different things, |
| 0:51.0 | so I have a hard time with that, |
| 0:52.0 | but like, it's about a lot of different things so I have a hard time with that but like it's about a young woman who finds a robot statue and names it Carl makes a video with it and then that video goes viral in part because she's charming but in part in larger part because that one |
| 1:05.9 | statue turned out to be one of 63 others that just appeared overnight all |
| 1:11.5 | across the world and no one can explain them and April gets a little |
| 1:16.2 | taste of fame and then works very hard but also has also is sort of like, in part due to her own ambition and hard work and in part due to the |
| 1:28.4 | peculiarity of the mystery that she is in gets brought deeper into this and becomes a bit of a pundit, |
| 1:36.7 | a bit of a celebrity, and a bit of a thought leader all at once as a 23 year old who is not really well prepared for the mental exercise of that. |
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