James Franco: The Next Proust?
Celebrities should not tweet, blog, or get book deals.
Hold on to your bongs, stoners! Sorry, Pineapple Express reference. But really, hold on to them, because James Franco is blowing up all over the literary scene. Who knew he could read and write?
According to Fox (who I can't believe I'm sourcing):
"Franco has sold a collection of short stories to the Scribner imprint of Simon & Schuster. His powerhouse agent, Richard Abate, of Endeavor, confirmed it yesterday.
This is great news for Franco, who's enrolled in the graduate creative writing department at New York University and is also taking writing classes at Columbia...
It's unknown how much Scribner's paid, or when the book will be published."
Powerhouse agent, eh? I wonder how much the agent paid Fox to include that little ego-building nod in their article?
This comes on the heels of news that Franco signed on recently to star in the film Howl, which chronicles the obscenity trial stemming from the publication of the 1956 Allen Ginsberg poem of the same name. The movie begins filming next week, on March 16.
