Everything Is Tuberculosis

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Everything Is Tuberculosis
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Author John Green
Cover artistGrace Han
LanguageEnglish
Subject Tuberculosis
Publisher Crash Course Books
Publication date
March 18, 2025 (planned)
Media typePrint, audiobook
Pages208
ISBN 978-0-525-42605-9
Website everythingistb.com

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection is an upcoming book by American author John Green about tuberculosis. It is set to be published in March 2025 and will be Green's second nonfiction book.

Contents

Background

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John Green in the Kissy Psychiatric Hospital (now known as Sierra Leone Psychiatric Hospital) in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in April 2019

John Green is an American young adult novelist, best known for writing the 2012 bestseller The Fault in Our Stars, which was later adapted into a 2014 film. He is also well known for his YouTube channel Vlogbrothers which he started with his brother, the entrepreneur Hank Green, in 2007. From that YouTube channel started the annual Project for Awesome charity event also in 2007, which supports Partners In Health, among other charities. [1] [2] Following his last novel Turtles All the Way Down in 2017, Green described himself as "retired" from young adult fiction. He published a book of essays, The Anthropocene Reviewed , in 2021, which acted as a loose memoir. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Green became interested in tuberculosis on a visit to Sierra Leone with Partners In Health in 2019, where he became aware that it was not "a problem of the past" but an ongoing global issue despite being curable. He spent several years engaging with experts and learning about the disease, speaking about it before the United Nations in 2023. That year, he also rallied his audience to petition Johnson & Johnson and Cepheid to ease access to the tuberculosis treatment bedaquiline and rapid diagnostic testing for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, respectively, which both companies did. [2] [1]

Summary and release

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Henry, a young tuberculosis patient profiled by Green in the book, shown at 16 (left) and four years later (right) after a new treatment regimen.

Green described the book as "a history of human responses to tuberculosis intertwined with a contemporary story of one person's experience". [2] The contemporary story is largely that of Henry, a Sierra Leonean boy who shares Green's son's name. [1] He announced the book's title, Everything Is Tuberculosis, on October 22, 2024. [6] It is planned to be released on March 18, 2025. [2] [6] [7]

The cover was designed by Grace Han, who also designed the cover for The Anthropocene Reviewed . [8] [9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Bender, Maddie (October 30, 2024). "Can John Green Make You Care About Tuberculosis?". The New York Times . Retrieved January 28, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Lindquist, Dave (February 2, 2024). "Author John Green's current chapter is focused on a healthier human race" . Indiana Business Journal. Retrieved September 27, 2024.
  3. ↑ Rebolini, Arianna. "Check Out The Cover Of John Green's Debut Essay Collection". BuzzFeed News. Archived from the original on March 16, 2021. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
  4. ↑ Nelson, Samantha. "The Anthropocene Reviewed appraises everything from plagues to Dr Pepper". AV Club. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  5. ↑ Tuttle, Kate. "Author John Green explores the human experience through five-star reviews – The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Archived from the original on May 17, 2021. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
  6. 1 2 Tagen-Dye, Carly (October 22, 2024). "John Green to Publish New Nonfiction Book About Tuberculosis: 'Culmination of a Long Journey'". People . Retrieved October 22, 2024.
  7. ↑ Wiseman, Katie (October 25, 2024). "'Everything is Tuberculosis,' John Green's latest title, available for preorder". The Indianapolis Star. Retrieved October 28, 2024.
  8. ↑ Green, John [@johngreen] (October 22, 2024). "My new book Everything is Tuberculosis is available for preorder NOW! Link in my bio. Cover by the great Grace Han" (Tweet). Retrieved October 25, 2024– via Twitter.
  9. ↑ Rebolini, Arianna (March 16, 2021). "Check Out The Cover Of John Green's Debut Essay Collection". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved October 25, 2024.
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