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Sunday, November 17, 2013

Actor perhaps not so anonymous in James Franco novel

Chris Weeks/Courtesy

One of the greatest concerns an author has when writing fiction is that he reveals too much of himself in it, discarding his fleshy facade and leaking the inner workings of his mind, his consciousness as visible as the black ink on the page. Celebrated actor James Franco revels in
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