As with actors, there’s a long history of directors writing fiction. You can read works from Whit Stillman, Woody Allen, Albert Brooks, and Charlie Kaufman, not to mention multi-hyphenates like Miranda July, Sam Shepard, and Nora Ephron. But in the past year, the trickle of directors-turned-novelists has turned into a stream, with Michael Mann, John Waters, Werner Herzog, and Quentin Tarantino all releasing debuts
