John Green Officially Graduates to the Adult Shelf

John Green, the author who spent two decades turning teenage readers into lifelong ones, is publishing his first novel written for grown-ups. He marked the moment the way any sensible New Yorker would this week — breakfast, then a stop at MoMA — before sitting down to talk through the book, called Ending. He spoke openly about his run-ins with Hollywood over the years adapting his work for the screen, and about what fame actually feels like once the paperbacks are already stacked in every airport bookstore. Green admitted that adulthood itself once unsettled him, but between the museum visit and the new title, he sounds like a writer who has decided, on his own terms, that it's time.

With reporting from Vanity Fair.