Directing Herbert White

Read Directing Herbert White Storyline:

The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James FrancoI'm a nocturnal creature,And I'm here to cheat time.You can see time and exhaustionTaking pay from my face—In fifty yearsMy sleep will be death,I'll go like the rest,But I'll have playedAll the games and all the roles. —from "Nocturnal""There's never been a book quite like this. Hollywood — fame, celebrity, the promise of becoming an artist — is the beast at its center. Franco knows it like Melville knows whaling. Hollywood in this book devours its young. Obsessed with myths about its own past, it can be survived only by finding a vantage point that is not Hollywood. Bold yet subtle, fearless yet disarming, Franco has made a book you will never forget." — Frank Bidart, winner of the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry"A star-studded cast moves like ghosts across the screen of James Franco's poetic consciousness,...