Review of Directing Herbert White

Even unrequited love arouses only glassy-eyed tedium in Directing Herbert White, a collection of limp, low-rent gossipy sketches by James Franco. Other pedestrian insights, masquerading as poetic revelation and scattered throughout this oh-so-precious Hollywood pseudo- production, fall embarrassingly flat and beg the question: why would renowned Graywolf Press publish these sophomoric jottings? For more of my review go here:  http://dougholder.blogspot.com/2014/05/directing-herbert-white-by-james-franco.html