Tobias was one of the first nerdfighters and was extremely active in the first forums set up around Brotherhood 2.0. He is also a very nice guy. Over the four years between my meeting him and the...
Not sure if I've answered this before, but: I wrote chapter one while David was writing chapter two. Then we met at my apartment in New York City and read our chapters out loud to each other. (...
Well, when we were doing the initial character development, neither of us knew anything, because I knew absolutely 0 about David's Will Grayson (except for his name) while writing my first chapte...
Well, it was easier because I knew exactly who I was writing for: I was writing for David. That feeling of specificity was really liberating. I just wanted to impress David and make him laugh, et...
Not really. I've always been interested in what happens when you give the narrative voice to the sidekick. In a way, WGWG is a novel in which two sidekicks are given narrative voices. (You don't�...
Both of us, although David wrote most of the good stuff.
I am a Cubs fan, yeah, but that particular line was just meant to reflect that the school is on the northside of town (in the near north suburbs in fact). The north side is associated with the ...
He's physically attracted to Jane from the very beginning of the book--or at least he drawn to describing her physicality more observantly than any of the other characters. I certainly wouldn't...
Yeah, it's a reference to David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest meant to indicate that my Will Grayson is fond of that book. Also I just like it as a conjunction.
That's David's character, so you'd have to ask him. (In the past, when he has been asked, he's noted that there are several ways you can read it: You can read it as a reflection of will feeling l...
Well, the reason Schrodinger's Cat is so famous is not because it was a terribly important thought experiment (although it is a fairly important one), but because it is A. relatively easy to unde...
No, we didn't agree to it beforehand or even discuss it. We didn't discuss anything except for names, dates, and a location for them to meet. But we only wrote one chapter each before meeting t...
I don't ever think about Elton John one way or the other, really, to be honest with you. I just thought Tiny Cooper would like Elton John.
David and I became friends after he read Looking for Alaska several months before it was published. He wrote me an email; I responded (I was a fan of his books); it went from there. Months la...
We collaborated more on those chapters, but even then, the odd chapters are mine and the even ones David's. We talked a lot about the actual mechanics of those chapters, and where characters need...
It's very interesting to me how frequently romantic partners in the US tend to say, "I love you," and how infrequently friends and certain family members say it. Like, I do not find it at all har...
Yes. Funny story: For like the first 10 drafts, the musical was called "Hold Me Close Now: The Tiny Cooper Story," and then finally David gently pointed out to me that the lyric was "Hold me CL...
I have no idea. Books belong to their readers, and I cannot address questions that were intentionally left ambiguous in the story. (...he said for the millionth time, further infuriating his ve...
That would be me. I guess I kind of wanted to force David's hand here, because I really wanted to write a story that celebrated all different kinds of love, that talked about love between frien...