The Fault in Our Stars author John Green appeared on Monday night’s episode of Stephen Colbert’s The Colbert Report to talk about his book-turned-film as well as the concept of YA.
Colbert, who’s leaving Comedy Central and Report at the end of the year to replace David Letterman on The Late Show, asked surprisingly good questions about Green’s writing career.
Watch Stephen Colbert’s interview with John Green below:
On the topic of YA, Colbert was curious about how the term has been used in a bad way.
“How do you feel about that term ‘the young adult novel,’ because as far as I can tell a young adult novel is a regular novel that young people actually read,” Colbert cracked to laughs from Green and his audience. “When you call something a young adult novel there’s a ghettoization of it.”
Green agreed. “There is in a way but there’s also that connotation, ‘Oh I may like reading.’ There’s nothing wrong – I love being a pop writer,” he said.
Elsewhere in the interview Colbert offers his first impressions on The Fault in Our Stars’ title and suggests that Green is a cult leader.
Colbert Report airs weeknights at 11:30 p.m. eastern/pacific on Comedy Central.
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