{"id":61245,"date":"2013-10-11T09:32:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T13:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=61245"},"modified":"2013-10-11T16:51:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T20:51:48","slug":"james-franco-is-garbo-a-novelist-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/11\/james-franco-is-garbo-a-novelist-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"James Franco Is Garbo, a Novelist, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/jamesfrancolarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/jamesfrancolarge.jpg\" alt=\"jamesfrancolarge\" width=\"600\" height=\"361\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-61246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>At the Henry Review, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryreview.org\/qa-josh-dreams-of-purityjoshua-cohen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Cohen reads<\/a> from his novel-in-progress.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/therumpus.net\/2013\/10\/david-biespiels-poetry-wire-poetry-shutdown-begins-poets-and-critics-fail-to-agree\/\" target=\"_blank\">A poetry shutdown begins<\/a>, and poets and critics fail to reach a compromise.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt is honest only to the degree that it builds its precise and inescapable box around its maker\u2019s scale version of the world.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/10\/10\/new-wes-anderson-book-_n_4079435.html?utm_hp_ref=books\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Chabon on Wes Anderson<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Ready or not: here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/pageviews\/2013\/10\/james-franco-releases-book-trailer-for-%E2%80%98actors-anonymous%E2%80%99\" target=\"_blank\">the book trailer for James Franco\u2019s novel<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Henry Review, Joshua Cohen reads from his novel-in-progress. A poetry shutdown begins, and poets and critics fail to reach a compromise. \u201cIt is honest only to the degree that it builds its precise and inescapable box around its maker\u2019s scale version of the world.\u201d Michael Chabon on Wes Anderson. Ready or not: here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[539,1327,313,1141],"class_list":["post-61245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-james-franco","tag-joshua-cohen","tag-michael-chabon","tag-wes-anderson"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>James Franco Is Garbo, a Novelist, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 11, 2013 \u2013 At the Henry Review, Joshua Cohen reads from his novel-in-progress. 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