Following the Twitter backlash against Lana Del Rey‘s 2012 Saturday Night Live performance, James Franco penned a V Magazine essay pledging his love for his longtime friend and muse. Now the actor, artist and serial loller is documenting his love for Lana in a full fledged novel. “Lana lives in her art,” he wrote in V, “when she comes down to earth for interviews, it gets messy, because she isn’t made for this earth. She is made to live in the world she creates… 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.'”
Three years on, it seems Franco has stuck to his word and teaming up with writer David Shields. Flip-Side: Real And Imaginary Conversations With Lana Del Rey, will be released on April 3, 2016. Summertime sadness, begone!