Looking for Mr. Goodbar Looking for Mr. Goodbar Looking for Mr. Goodbar is a novel by American writer Judith Rossner. Published in 1975, the book—a "stunning psychological study of a woman's passive complicity in her own death" —won critical acclaim and was a #1 "New York Times" best seller. Theresa Dunn, a young woman living in New York City, leads something of a "double life": by day she is a devoted schoolteacher, but by night she cruises singles bars. Eventually, just as she's trying to make a new start, Terry is murdered by a young drifter she has just met and invited home. Prior
Looking for Alaska would be adapting the novel into an 8-episode limited series. On October 30, 2018, John Green announced the lead cast: Kristine Froseth as Alaska, and Charlie Plummer as Miles. Looking for Alaska Looking for Alaska is John Green's first novel, published in March 2005 by Dutton Juvenile. It won the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association, and led the association's list of most-challenged books in 2015 due to profanity and sexually explicit scenes. "Looking for Alaska" is inspired by Green's own experiences as a high school student. The story is told through the first-person narration of