From the New York Times, this is the interview. I'm David Marquesie.

In a time of widespread disconnection and hopelessness, John Green's work dares to stay hopeful.

His YA novels, especially the mega bestselling The Fault in Our Stars, have shown his gift

for speaking the emotional language of teens.

For almost 20 years, Green and his brother and best friend Hank have shared earnest and charmingly

nerdy videos to a devoted YouTube audience of millions in which they explore all sorts

of things, anxiety, mental health, religion, you name it. If it's something that's kept you up at night,

the Greens have probably made a video about it.

And then more recently, Green turned his attention to global health,

with this year's non-fiction bestseller,

Everything is Tuberculosis.

Despite all that work, Green himself has battled

over the years with his own feelings of disconnection,

from his fiction writing, his fans, and from his own sense of purpose.

And it's a battle that he knows, as so many of us do, that he'll need to keep fighting.

Here's my conversation with John Green.

Okay. but John Greene. John, thank you for taking the time to speak with me today.

I appreciate it.

It's a pleasure.

You know, I'm just going to start with a heavy question.

So I think underneath a lot of your work, whether it's fiction or nonfiction or online content, is the idea of hope.

And I saw somewhere that you said hope is the correct response to consciousness.

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