James Franco Writes Book About Lana Del Rey

James Franco is such a big fan of singer Lana Del Rey that he decided to write a book about her.

Penguin Random House revealed on its website that the actor has co-written a short book about the “Summertime Sadness” singer titled Flip-Side: Real and Imaginary Conversations with Lana Del Rey. He penned the 100-page book with David Shields.

Franco previously wrote about Del Rey for V Magazine. “I wanted to interview Lana for a book and she said, ‘Just write around me, it’s better if it’s not my own words. It’s almost better if you don’t get me exactly, but try.’”

“Lana has become my friend,” Franco wrote in the article. “She is a musician who is a poet and a video artist. She grew up on the East Coast but she is an artist of the West Coast. When I watch her stuff, when I listen to her stuff, I am reminded of everything I love about Los Angeles. I am sucked into a long gallery of Los Angeles cult figurines, and cult people, up all night like vampires and bikers. The only difference between Lana and me is her haunting voice. That carries everything. The voice is the central axle around which the spokes of everything else extend. My axle, like her voice is for her, is my acting. Out of it, I do everything else.”

Flip-Side: Real and Imaginary Conversations with Lana Del Rey is set to be released March 15, 2016.