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Actors Anonymous: A Novel by James Franco

“In Actors Anonymous, Franco performs an auto-celebrity roast that is at once mordantly funny, maddening and provocative...a kind of intellectual companion piece to his role in This is the End.” –Claudia Puig, USA Today

“Franco deftly switches between these different characters’ voices and fearlessly experiments with form throughout the book: one section is a screenplay, while another is made up entirely of footnotes. But what makes this book so powerful is Franco’s own confessional voice. Perhaps this is finally a personal introduction to a man ready to be unmasked himself.” —Columbia Magazine

“Hilarious, shameless, and effective…Franco’s democratic marvel of feel-good prose employs a stable of likable narrators—and diverse styles, such as letters, poetry, text messages, journal entries, pure dialogue, and footnotes—from various walks of life, and the beyond….Their meditations on existence as performance art are funny, subversive, enlightening, and philosophical.” -Lisa Shea, Elle

“Compelling…entertaining and insightful…genuinely funny.” –Thomas Flynn, The Daily Beast

“Franco writes with real authority about a certain kind of workaday desperation amid the promise of glamor…Engaging.” - Slate