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By Nate Freeman 1/03/11 11:48pm

James Franco to Translate Two Monoliths of American Literature to Film

When we chatted up the tireless James Franco at the book party for his Palo Alto, at The James in Soho, we naturally asked him about his favorite writers. He mentioned Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son, a collection of short fiction dear to our heart, so we wondered which story he liked the best. He Read More

By David Thomson 2/13/06 12:00am

Cool, Ironic Debut Novel, Herald of a Real Career

Sometimes you can hear families muttering at each other in their dark and lonely enclosures. The words are like wounds that cannot heal because of huge regret or grievance, but the tone of the talk is so matter-of-fact, so casual, so bored. What are families for? They’re the people we talk and listen to, until Read More

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