From Vox Magazine: Read This: Not That Kind of Girl
- Candice Brew
- Sep 25, 2014
- 1 min read
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Published in 9/25 print issue of Vox magazine and published on voxmagazine.com
Lena Dunham is 28 years old and the creator of an award-winning HBO series, but that certainly doesn’t mean she has life all figured out.
On Sept. 30, the director, writer and star of Girls will release Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned,” a memoir of narratives hinged onhypochondriac meltdowns and quarter-life crises.
An excerpt titled “Difficult Girl” was published in The New Yorker in the Sept. 1 issue, and her memoir has also received pre-publication praise. Miranda July, writer, director and actress of the award-winning film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, says Dunham doesn’t apologize for being imperfect and honest. Her stories are intimate and familiar — perhaps even a spitting image of her Girls character, Hannah Horvath.
In The New York Times Magazine’s Sept. 14 cover story, The Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum placed Dunham on a high literary pedestal: “She is perhaps to the millennials what J. D. Salinger was to the post-World War II generation and Woody Allen was to the baby boomers: a singular voice who spoke as an outsider and, in so doing, became the ultimate insider.”
Dunham has often been criticized for limiting Girls’ representation to a young, white, urban America, so whether she is the voice of an entire generation is for readers to decide. A certain set of 20-somethings, however, will probably find common ground in her tales of self-discovery and awkward sexcapades.
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