Franta, whose new book on love, loneliness and modern life will be published this month, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that his celebrity status had exacerbated his underlying anxiety. “I would (attribute) a lot of my anxiety to the fame element.
I think that’s kind of the genesis of it,” Franta, 29, said in a phone interview from his home in Los Angeles. “(But things) are not as hectic as they once were and are much more manageable with age, with maturity and with just, frankly, calming down,” he said ahead of the Oct.
19 publication of “House Fires”, his third book. Franta posted his first YouTube video in August 2010, coming out on the site four years later in a post that has since gained more than 12 million views and helped turn