Is the Struggle Real?
A rash of confessional memoirs by middle- and upper-class white women (think Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl) has repositioned feminism not as a political movement, but as a…
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Not That Kind of Girl
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Not That Kind of Narrator
The problem with unreliable narrators — and the thing that makes them so delightful to read in fiction — is that by design, you never quite know when they are…
Still Thinking Through All This
Though she admits to be “still thinking through all this,” Roxane Gay offers her thoughts on the Lena Dunham controversy on her Tumblr.
Sex and the Honest Girl
At The Millions, Brooke Hauser compares Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl with Helen Gurley Brown’s seminal Sex and the Single Girl and finds, distressingly, that not much has…
Book Tour Ticketgate
Lena Dunham launched her collection of personal essays, Not that Kind of Girl, yesterday. At NPR, the filmmaker, actress, and author discusses oversharing, sexual assault, and pornography. Dunham did not get through the…