News Summary

• Lena Dunham's memoir, "Famesick," is a feast of keen observations and psychological insights delivered vividly, with candor and wit.
• Her narrative is frankly and stringently personal, but it also provides a wide-angle view of show business itself, and of a fundamental artistic conflict within it.
• Dunham was ready to let the process take over her life and eager to make the series: “If I loved making movies, then making TV, I figured, must be like that.
• And what could be better than that?”