'Down to the Roots' is a podcast

CBC has podcast versions of all of the winners of the CBC Literary Awards up on Between the Covers.

You can listen to 'Down to the Roots' read by an actress (with the applicable Ukrainian accent). How fantastic!

james franco writes?

James Franco acts a lot (General Hospital! Milk! The Spidermen!), and he writes literary fiction too. 

Esquire Mag - read Just Before the Black. 

This isn't a one-off - he's doing a creative writing degree at New York University and his story collection (published by Scribner) is coming out in October.

Read more:
Salon