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James Franco's Favorite Books That Defy the White Straight Male Tradition
It includes everyone from Flannery O'Connor to Tony Kushner to Lorrie Moore.
Here's What James Franco Has Been Reading
Every free moment of his last year has been filled with books.
James Franco on Stephen King, J. J. Abrams, and Being a 'Pop Culture Hog'
"I’ve been accused of being ubiquitous, of occupying too much cultural ground."
James Franco on Famed Serial Killer Richard Ramirez
An essay and four stories explore the infamous "Night Stalker" killings.
Watch James Franco's Short Film, 'Goat Boy'
Goat Boy is the cobbled-together remains of a student film I made based on Frank Bidart's poem, “Herbert White.” These are the bits of backstory provided by Frank to fill out the title character. We cut out this backstory in our film, but later...
Watch James Franco's Test for a Short Film Based on Faulkner's 'Red Leaves'
In honor of the premiere of his film The Sound and the Fury at Venice and Toronto, here's a test Franco shot for a short film that was to be based on a Faulkner story. It's set during the early days of Faulkner's fictional county, Yoknapatawpha...
I Love William Gay’s ‘The Long Home’
My new favorite writer is William Gay. His writes about a community of backwoods Tennessee characters entangled by geography, blood, competition, greed, love, and vengeance. The thing about Gay is that he’s the strange twin brother of Cormac McCarthy...
The Power of the Past in Cormac McCarthy's 'Wake for Susan'
My adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s third novel, Child of God, is in theaters tomorrow, so I wrote about McCarthy's first published short story, “Wake for Susan,” to show that he has had a fascination with death since the beginning and is the...
Watch James Franco's Short Film, 'The Clerk's Tale,' Based on a Poem by Spencer Reece
Watch my short film The Clerk's Tale, which is based on a Spencer Reece poem about working at a Brooks Brothers in the Mall of America, exclusively on VICE.
Adapting 'Blood Meridian'
I have always wanted to adapt Cormac McCarthy’s great novel into film. Many have tried and failed. I dreamed about adapting it, never thinking that it would happen. If Tommy Lee Jones couldn’t do it and Ridley Scott couldn’t do it, how could I?
Listen to James Franco Read Our 2014 Fiction Issue
Here's another reason to blow your rent money on an iPad. For this summer's fiction issue, we asked our good friend and VICE columnist James Franco to choose a few of his favorite stories and read...