Hollywood, Ending

Unlike his previous novels, which were young adult fiction, Hollywood, Ending is intended for adults. Green spoke of his shift toward adult fiction during a 2024 talk at Stanford University, saying that he felt increasingly disconnected from young adults.^[1] Green stated on his YouTube channel, Vlogbrothers, that he had begun writing Hollywood, Ending after the release of his previous novel, Turtles All the Way Down, in 2017, but had been unsure about completing the book due to "personal reasons". He featured an early version of Hollywood, Ending in what he described as "a series of semi-secret livestreams" during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2][3]

Hollywood, Ending is set to be published on September 22, 2026, by Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.^[1][4] Like all of Green's prior novels,^[5] it was edited by Julie Strauss-Gabel.^[2]

Hollywood, Ending is told from the points of view of two characters, Kai and Juniper. The two are young actors who star in a biopic about Andy Warhol, titled Andy Warhol Never Gets Old. They deal with newfound fame from this film while falling in love with each other.^[2][3] Green and Dutton Books have described the book's themes as relating to fame and the attention economy. Green stated that it is about "navigating love and loss all while participating in the strange, complicated exchanges of attention and trauma of the social internet that has become something no longer reserved for movie stars alone".^[1][2]