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From acclaimed Hollywood actor/director James Franco comes a brilliant new work of fiction.

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Hollywood has always been a private club. I open the gates.

I say welcome. 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 examination of celebrity, acting and the making of fiction. A series of stories told in many forms, Actors Anonymous provides a fascinating meditation on the art of Hollywood, along with nightmarish tales of excess.

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Funny, subversive, unlightening, and philosophical. Elle

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James Franco grew up in the northern California town of Palo Alto. He is an actor, director, screenwriter and artist. His film appearances include Milk, Pineapple Express, the Spider-Man trilogy, Howl, Oz the Great and Powerful, Spring Breakers, and This Is The End.
He received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his performance in 127 Hours .

On television, he starred in the critically acclaimed series Freaks and Geeks and won the Golden Globe award for his portrayal of James Dean in the bio-pic of the actor´s life.

He has written and directed the films, The Broken Tower and an adaptation of Faulkner´s As I Lay Dying .

Franco has presented his visual art at galleries in America and Europe, including Psycho Nacirema at London´s Pace Gallery.

His writing has appeared in Esquire, the Wall Street Journal and McSweeney´s . He has an MFA from Brooklyn College and has studied in the creative writing MFA programme at Columbia and the film MFA programme at New York University. and is completing a PHD at Yale University.

His collection of stories, Palo Alto , was published in 2011, and his novel, Actors Anonymous in 2013.

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