The Awesome Coffee Club

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Is Looking for Alaska Pornography

Looking for Alaska has been banned more in the last year than in the previous 16 years. Some Concerned Parent just filed a police report (!?!?!?!?) about a teacher sharing one of my books with a student because apparently they think this teacher is distributing pornography.

But, like, the book is not pornography? Pornography is intended to arouse, and LFA is…just not hot like that. I am not alone in thinking this. Like, of the 68,884 reviews of Looking for Alaska on goodreads, exactly 19 (or 1 out of every 3,500) mention the word “erotic.”

These 19 reviews feature:

4 people who hated the book and cited as the reason they hated it that it contains so many erotic scenes. (But, like, if you found it so hot, how come you hated it so much?)

1 person who said “it definitely couldn’t be described as erotic.”

10 people who said the book was some version of “not erotic.”

5 people who quoted Alaska saying of a pornographic video, “What’s erotic about that? Where’s the kissing?” 

Indeed.

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The snow-white ground was cracked like dried lips and crunched under my feet. I could smell the salt. I kept trying to think of what it looked like, but my brain could only find highly figurative similes. It looks like driving alone at night feels. It looks like everything you're scared to say out loud. It looks like the moment the water retreats from the shore just before a wave rolls in.

~John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

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This is a better advertisement for the awesome coffee club than I could ever make. And it doubles as an ad for a book. There’s an ad in the ad. Amazing!

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kaiasky asked:

why is it awesomesocks.club but only awesomecoffeeclub.com?

My friend, Hank and I are writers, not Proper Business People.

But I have a story about this: So a while back this person notices that our socks are at awesomesocks.club while our coffee is at awesomecoffeeclub.com, which is the kind of thing that yeah we should’ve fixed, but awesomesocksclub.com was taken and we didn’t want to pay some URL-buying professional for a domain name for our charity sock company.

But right so this person, Buck, notices the discrepancy and then sends me an email saying, “Listen, I noticed someone else owned awesomesocksclub dot com SO I WENT AHEAD AND BOUGHT IT FOR YOU AND HERE’S THE LOGIN CREDENTIALS FOR THE SITE HOPE YOURE HAVING A GOOD DAY.”

And so now you can go to awesomesocksclub.com and find our (currently out of stock) socks.

Our customers are so wonderfully enthusiastic. Incredible. He bought the domain! People can be so lovely. It’s a wonder.

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chas-davis asked:

Do you use child slaves like Nestlé?

No. We are different from Nestle in a number of ways:

  1. Nestle does not give its profit to charity. Nestle gives its profit to shareholders, who are almost all already wealthy, which is weird, because why do THEY need money?
  2. Nestle’s coffee sucks.
  3. Our coffee beans come from small farmers’ collectives who we pay directly. It’s perfectly roasted, comes in compostable packaging, is fresher than any coffee you can buy in a grocery store, and tastes fucking amazing.
coffee in a zoomed out sense nestle is in the business of delivering profit to their shareholders while the awesome coffee club is in the business of delivering profit to the world's most impoverished communities coffee company but also nestle does not care about the supply chain or deforestation except insofar as caring helps their profit margins whereas we do need to care because we have engaged and enthusiastic customers who are trusting us to give them better coffee

time-sponges asked:

You must experience a very strange kind of celebrity status. Do people come up to you in your local grocery store?

Yes, but it is almost always pleasant. If people do not like me or my work, they generally do not come up to me at the grocery store. (It is of course ok to leave me alone at the grocery store because you don’t like me or my work! I get it! I am problematic! I am annoying! I am overly earnest! Nobody can criticize me like I can criticize me!)

So that does not happen often. What does happen often is a lovely and unexpected gift of getting to hear from someone what my work has meant to them, and learn a bit about them, and maybe take a picture to commemorate the occasion. I used to feel like being “famous” (which is a weird word to apply to an unpaid coffee marketing intern) was an imposition on my daily life, and I missed not being able to have those private-in-public moments in Target or whatever. But no longer! Now I frame it as a gift, and a lovely one.

Is it an imposition when I’m with my kids or feeling especially anxious because the fast-cycling lights in Kroger do a number on my long-damaged vestibular system? Sometimes! But that’s okay! We all have impositions in our lives–and as impositions go, this is a very nice one.

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national-nobody-writes asked:

John! I finally brewed a pot of the Calypso for my afternoon coffee today, and as a Certified Coffee Snob (person who's been working for a local roaster for over 5 yrs & is frequently, if lovingly, teased by my friends & fam for being WAY too picky), I'm thrilled to confirm that the coffee is, in fact, awesome!

You guys have great taste, both in coffee and in charity projects. :) Hope you're having fun w the unpaid internship!

Thank you! I would like to take credit for the excellence of the roast, but the geniuses at First Crack, a coffee roasting and education company, are behind the incredible taste profile. I am just the unpaid social media marketing intern.

Also, LOOK AT THE (architectural renderings of the) HOSPITAL YOUR COFFEE IS HELPING TO BUILD.

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feeling-unmoored asked:

Hi unpaid social media intern, when writing TFIOS did you slip in a Terminator reference? The internet is not giving me any answers, so I'm hoping you will know!

Thank you (and btw, I love your coffee!)

  1. I don’t know. Maybe? Can you remind me of the passage? I spent ten years writing that book off and on, and so there was plenty of time for insertion of references and resonances of all sorts. But that was over a decade ago. When I started writing tfios, I was 23. When I finished it, I was 33. Now, I am 45. A roaring sea of time has passed between me and that book, and so I do not remember too much about it.
  2. In some ways, the person who wrote that book is so strange to me. He was so angry, so grief-stricken, so furiously unreconciled to a world where injustice is twisted into God’s Plan or the Universe’s Will or whatever. I remember that person, and I care for him, and I am still unreconciled to this world, but for me writing the book was a way of saying what I needed to tell myself: It is not only long lives that can be full lives, and not only old love that can be real love.
  3. I am still very angry about injustice. But at this juncture in my life, my focus is on the injustice that we as a human community are choosing and causing. We are choosing and causing a world where 1 in 20 Sierra Leonean women can expect to die in pregnancy or childbirth. We are choosing and causing a world where 1,500,000 people die every year of tuberculosis, a disease that is seen as a past-tense phenomenon in most of the rich world. I do not know how to write books about this horror, at least not yet, but it is the focus of my life right now and the reason I have become, for instance, an unpaid intern of a coffee company that donates its profits toward rectifying the horrific injustice of the global maternal mortality crisis.
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