You probably knew that Lena Dunham wrote a memoir (if you didn’t, she has), but she’d love to remind you why she’s qualified. Meghan Daum elaborates for the New York Times Magazine:
To suggest that Dunham is too young, too privileged, too entitled, too narcissistic, neurotic and provincial (in that rarefied Manhattan-raised way) to be dispensing advice to anyone is to add very little to the ever-expanding, very much already-in-progress conversation about her place in the culture and her overall right to exist. A frequently repeated Dunham quip (which she lent to her “Girls” alter ego in the show’s first season) serves as the ultimate pre-emptive strike against public invective: “Any mean thing someone’s going to think of to say about me I’ve already said to me, about me, probably in the last half-hour.”
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Thanks for posting this. I have to say, any residual cattiness I found myself harboring over Lena’s superhuge book deal (because,let’s admit it, a lot of us did it! Especially us X’ers who are starting to fear we may never, ever have book deals of our own. ;0) was instantly dispelled by reading her piece on therapy in the September 1, 2014 New Yorker. The girl can write. I look forward to reading her memoir now like look forward to that secret stash of Ben and Jerry’s hidden under the peas in the back of my freezer.
I just may keep it covered by other books on my shelf.
The New Yorker essay is also available free online if anyone is interested: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/difficult-girl
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