James Franco Book Signing for STRAIGHT JAMES / GAY JAMES

Saturday, May 14, 12:00pm at Skylight Books in LA, James Franco will be signing copies of his new collection of poetry Straight James / Gay James.  Please visit Skylight Books for more information about the event.

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. His poetic style varies from the imagistic to the prosaic. The chapbook also contains an interview of “Gay James” conducted by “Straight James.” Yes, Straight James asks the question: “Let’s get substantial: are you f*****g gay or what?”

What people are saying about Straight James /Gay James:

The poems in Straight James /Gay James prove once more that James Franco will not be cornered nor ironed flat by the manufacturers of American celebrity.

—Tony Hoagland, author of Application for Release from the Dream: Poems

Hollywood, the land of artifice, make-believe, myth-making—in short, of the false self—has driven James Franco to write a book of radical honesty.

—Frank Bidart, author of Metaphysical Dog: Poems

Straight James / Gay James is partly a hilarious send up of the celebrity interview and partly an earnest investigation of gender and role playing.

—Alan Shapiro, author of Reel to Reel

On film, James Franco has portrayed poets Allen Ginsberg, Hart Crane and C.K. Williams. In real life, James Franco is an original American poet in his own right.

—Gregg Barrios, author of I-DJ