JAMES FRANCO is the talented, ubiquitous, popular, and provocative actor, director, author, and visual artist. His first book, the story collection Palo Alto, was published in 2010.
"Subversively funny and provocatively honest, Actors Anonymous is
ostensibly about acting but it's really about a society where
everyone's reduced to the roles they play. The novel's many
narrators fight back against these roles in truly original, often
hilarious, and deeply affecting ways. So should we all." -Gary
Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story "Electrifying to
see a writer hold nothing back! This shape-shifting narrative
extends a reader's sense of what a novel can be, can do. Franco
plays with persona in ways that implicate a reader. The defiant
humor is hard-won (including the best worst job interview ever),
his take on irresponsible people is both eloquent and suitably
scorching, the language is enviable: the seduction of a virgin is
'like a bullet through a birthday cake.' Franco's novel lures you
in with indelible images, provocative mind games, and characters
laid bare, then successfully strands you in a frightening place."
-Amy Hempel
"James Franco puts on a James Franco mask and borrows formats from
AA to create a fiction about the fiction of identity--especially as
it pertains to actors and, by logical extension, writers. Is fame
(the longing for it, the actuality of it) as entangled in the
creative act as alcohol? Is acting (writing) an escape from reality
or the only thing that's real for an actor (writer)? The illusion
of reality and the reality of fiction hold hands in this novel in
much the way that actors (and writers) steal from their lives to
enliven their characters. The novel does not merely explore acting,
it enacts it. This is a lively, strange, engaging, often funny,
sometimes brilliant, and utterly fearless novel." -Robert Boswell,
author of Tumbledown, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards, and
The Half-Known World
"Subversively funny and provocatively honest, "Actors Anonymous" is
ostensibly about acting but it's really about a society where
everyone's reduced to the roles they play. The novel's many
narrators fight back against these roles in truly original, often
hilarious, and deeply affecting ways. So should we all." Gary
Shteyngart, author of "Super Sad True Love Story" "" Electrifying
to see a writer hold nothing back! This shape-shifting narrative
extends a reader's sense of what a novel can be, can do. Franco
plays with persona in ways that implicate a reader. The defiant
humor is hard-won (including the best worst job interview ever),
his take on irresponsible people is both eloquent and suitably
scorching, the language is enviable: the seduction of a virgin is
like a bullet through a birthday cake. Franco's novel lures you in
with indelible images, provocative mind games, and characters laid
bare, then successfully strands you in a frightening place." Amy
Hempel
James Franco puts on a James Franco mask and borrows formats from
AA to create a fiction about the fiction of identity especially as
it pertains to actors and, by logical extension, writers. Is fame
(the longing for it, the actuality of it) as entangled in the
creative act as alcohol? Is acting (writing) an escape from reality
or the only thing that s real for an actor (writer)? The illusion
of reality and the reality of fiction hold hands in this novel in
much the way that actors (and writers) steal from their lives to
enliven their characters. The novel does not merely explore acting,
it enacts it. This is a lively, strange, engaging, often funny,
sometimes brilliant, and utterly fearless novel. Robert Boswell,
author of "Tumbledown, " "The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards,
"and "The Half-Known World""
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