Cool-looking authors No. 15

James Franco, author of the short story collection "Palo Alto"
(Photo by Inez van Lamsweerde, for VMan)

Presenting

James Franco
is now
a poet,
don't you
know it.
Franco does it all.

Buttered

I laugh like crazy,
a laughter that bubbles
out like popcorn ...

— James Franco, "Just Before the Black"
(Esquire short story, April 2010)