Digital Native Lit With Hank Green

First Draft Episode #260: Hank Green

Hank Green talks about A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, the sequel to his #1 New York Times bestselling debut, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. Hank is, along with his brother John Green, the CEO of Complexly, co-host of the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel and the Dear Hank and John podcast, and is also co-founder of VidCon, DFTBA Records, and Crash Course.

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Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding

• Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

• Sideways Stories From Wayside School by Louis Sachar

• The Mars Trilogy, which starts with Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson

• John Green, Printz-winning author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars

• There There by Tommy Orange

• Recursion by Blake Crouch

• Zurg Enterprises in The Fifth Element (movie)

• The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder

• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

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