James Franco wrote a book

What a wonderful excuse to post this picture of him...

Here's what the New York Times has to say (and it's all good)...

"Too often, our comfort zones are our tombstones. We settle into numbing patterns and that’s that — wake me when it’s over. Not so in the frenetic world of James Franco, whose ambition over the past few years has manifested almost as performance art: he’s been affiliated with multiple M.F.A. programs, in fiction, poetry and filmmaking; he’s angling to add “Dr.” to his name, having recently become a Ph.D. aspirant at some shabby school called Yale. Oh, and in case your particular comfort zone is a cave, he’s a pretty successful actor, too.

Now he’s a published author. So often with young writers, we read regurgitations, remixes, short stories like pop songs we’ve already heard 500 times. This isn’t the case in Franco’s first story collection, “Palo Alto.” Its best entry is “American History,” in which high school freshmen must articulate the pro- and anti‑ slavery arguments of the mid-1800s. Franco sharply merges historical elements with a modern-day social commentary that makes you wonder how much we’ve actually evolved in post-bellum America. In another story, “I Could Kill Someone” — a wild romp in which the narrator decides to murder his locker-room nemesis — the bouncy, pubescent voice at first seems discombobulated, but ends up perfectly mirroring the undulations of a teenage mind: “In the old days, you could duel. Emotions have been around forever. I wish I had a girlfriend. Or someone.”

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And here's another picture for good measure...