In his follow-up to the critically acclaimed A California Childhood, James Franco presents a compelling portrait of the life of a young actor coming into his own in Hollywood. Told in an absorbing arr
I say, look inside. Inspired by Alcoholics Anonymous's 12 Steps and 12 Traditions, James Franco's Actors Anonymous is a dark, genre-bending work that mixes memoir and pure invention in an examinatio
In Directing Herbert White James Franco writes about making a film of Frank Bidart's poem, Herbert White. Though the main character, Herbert White, is a necrophiliac and a killer, the poem - and the f
Traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism.
Written with an immediacy and sense of place, this title traces the lives of an extended group of teenagers as they experiment with vices of all kinds, struggle with their families and one another, an
A fiercely vivid collection of stories?about troubled?California teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, from?the astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco.Palo Alto is the debut of a
The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James FrancoI’m a nocturnal creature,And I’m here to cheat time.You can see time and exhaustionTaking pay from my face— In fifty yearsMy
Now a “provocative” and “impressive” (Variety) film from director Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter)—starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmer—the fiction debut fr
Straight James / Gay James, actor James Franco’s new chapbook of poems, explores the facets of his public and private personas. Straight James / Gay James is a poetic bildungsroman—raw, candid, and un
In A California Childhood he plays with the concept of memoir through personal snapshots, sketches, paintings, poems, and stories. ?I was born in 1978 at Stanford Hospital and spent my first eighteen
