“I believe that fiction can help, and if that’s what makes me inevitably a genre writer, that’s okay,” John Green said in a speech at Kenyon College about why we should make art, genre fiction, and bad college hook up experiences. Bonus: Here are Green’s 18 books you probably haven’t read.
Tess Malone
is an associate editor for The Millions and an editor in Atlanta. She tweets at @temalone.