James Franco Book Signing at Book Soup on March 6, 2016

James Franco will appear for a book signing of his new chapbook Straight James / Gay James at Book Soup in West Hollywood, CA on Sunday, March 6, 2016, from 12 noon – 1:30pm. Copies of Straight James / Gay James will be available for purchase along with other select books written by James Franco. Book Soup is located on 8818 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069. Please refer to Book Soup’s author event page for more details and updates about this book signing.

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 uninhibited. James Franco writes about life as an actor, sexuality, questions of identity, gender, family, Gucci, Lana Del Rey, James Dean, and Hollywood.

James Franco is an actor, director, writer, and visual artist. He is the author of two works of fiction, Palo Alto and Actors Anonymous, and two books of collage of memoir, snapshots, poems, and artwork, A California Childhood and Hollywood Dreaming. His poetry has appeared in a chapbook,Strongest of the Litter, and the book, Directing Herbert White. His writing has also been published in Esquire, the Huffington Post,McSweeney’s, N+1, Vanity Fair, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He has received MFAs in fiction from Brooklyn College and Columbia, an MFA in film from New York University, an MFA in art from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College.