''The situation will present itself to you as reality and you will react.
All these details are clues in identifying the title and author of the book. First, pin down everything you can remember about the book, plot, character names, time period in which the book may have been published, genre, etc. ''If you believe in the scene, you don't need to emotionally prepare much,'' Franco writes. And we can’t figure out the mystery every single time, but we do have a few tricks to help find the answer. Franco writes about fans who meet and have sex with James Franco, and he renders them with studied derision as outsiders to both his body and thoughts. The casual insights on acting classes and the hierarchy of young actors are sometimes illuminating, but the lack of reach in terms of subject and setting ultimately leaves Actors Anonymous as an insular tome. The extended footnotes and redactions suggest the influence of David Foster Wallace, and in one piece, The Sass Account, an acerbic commentary on the organisation of a magazine photo shoot, the footnotes continue long after the story abruptly ends.
His prose style is coolly removed, defined by tidily contained sentences and a tone that equally takes in fast-food restaurant handjobs and adolescent declarations of love with a muted gaze. It's a book of many pieces, some sturdy and others brief, but they don't accumulate into a cohesive whole, despite linked narratives and recurring themes. Actors Anonymous, his follow-up to the 2010 short-story collection Palo Alto, is intermittently good, but it suffers from his flickering focus. But the Californian-born Franco falls short when it comes to writing fiction. The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Daytime Emmy-nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors reading children’s books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.
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