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Lana Del Rey and James Franco's muse/artist relationship has now reached a new level - a book. Yesterday (July 22) Penguin Random House Books announced that it will publish a new book about the "Honeymoon" singer next year, written by Franco and David Shields.
Flip-Side: Real and Imaginary Conversations with Lana Del Rey will be released on March 15, 2016, according to Stereogum. Little information is known about the actual contents of the book, though it seems as though Flip-Side will feature interviews with Del Rey and Franco as well as vignettes about what people perceive the dreamy singer to actually be like.
What we do know is that Flip-Side will be released initially in paperback form and contains 100 pages. The cover of the book features a series of square-cropped photos of Franco, Del Rey, Del Rey's sister Chuck Grant and MoMA director Klaus Biesenbach together at the beach.
Flip-Side will be Franco's first book about Del Rey, but it's not the first time he's written about his relationship with his muse. In September of last year, Franco penned an essay poem about Del Rey in V Magazine, defending her music and elusive personality, saying she's not of this earth.
"The thing about singers, especially the ones who write their own lyrics, is that everyone reads the person into the songs. An actor is sometimes aligned with his roles, but a singer is asked about her lyrics as if they were direct statements of her true thoughts and feelings," he wrote. "Sometimes Lana doesn't know what to say in interviews, so she plays into the idea that her songs are her, and not her creations."
