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John Green Announces First Adult Novel 'Hollywood, Ending' for Sept. 22 Release

The move signals a pivot from young-adult fiction to themes of fame on the social internet.

Overview

  • Green announced the novel Tuesday on the YouTube channel he shares with his brother, confirming a Sept. 22, 2026 publication by Dutton Books, a Penguin Random House imprint.
  • Hollywood, Ending follows two young actors, Kai and Juniper, whose breakout biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old upends their lives as they fall for each other under intense public attention.
  • Penguin Random House describes the book as a dual-perspective look at celebrity and an unflinching study of the attention economy that now reaches far beyond movie stars.
  • Green traced the idea to a story he read on semi-secret livestreams early in the pandemic, shaping a narrative about love, loss, and life lived in public online.
  • He said he has worked on the manuscript since finishing Turtles All the Way Down in 2017 and had doubted releasing it, as he later signaled a move away from YA during a 2024 Stanford talk.