The book was inspired by Green’s podcast of the same name, where the author — who is best known for his 2012 young adult best seller-turned-cultural phenomenon, “The Fault in Our Stars” — reviews different aspects of the human experience on a 5-star scale.
In the introduction, Green quotes the novelist Allegra Goodman, who was asked in a 2017 interview for the Book Review whom she would like to write her life story.
During a phone interview , Green elaborated: “I didn’t want to write in code anymore.
Before he published his first novel, “Looking for Alaska,” in 2005, and before the internet turned every hotel guest and Instant Pot chef into a critic, Green got his start working at Booklist.