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humor, United States, biography, autobiography, fame, television actors and actresses, Lena Dunham b1986, women television writers, women television producers and directors, celebrities
You don’t need to be familiar with Lena Dunham’s work in movies and television to read her new memoir. While she shares details and stories about show business, “Famesick” primarily centers around her mental and physical health struggles and how fame made them worse. Her story is sad, funny, self-deprecating, upsetting, and ultimately hopeful. I recommend the audiobook read by Dunham herself.
“As someone who has read a truly absurd amount of celebrity memoirs, I can tell you that in rare fashion Dunham goes deep.”—The New York Times Magazine
“Famesick is a pleasure to consume, its sentences seductive, its rhythms soothing. It leads to a fast read, but the sentences never feel empty. It is the pleasure of reading someone who also actually reads books, not someone who only reads posts or captions, which, in our newly crowned post-literate cultural landscape, feels like a blessing.”—Harper’s Bazaar
“Although most young women are not also writing and directing a series that makes them a household name, Dunham finds a way to hang her experiences on a scaffolding of normal feeling, describing the kinds of nausea and social panic one can experience even without an HBO deal.”—New York Magazine
