Lena Dunham’s ‘Famesick’ Memoir Lends New Insight Into ‘Sharp Stick’ and ‘Catherine Called Birdy,’ Two of Her Lesser-Seen But Still Very Worthwhile Movies

Everyone is talking about Lena Dunham again. Though her recent Netflix series Too Much is over and her Natalie Portman-starring Netflix movie Good Sex likely won’t be out until fall, Dunham has been back in the news with the release of her memoir Famesick, which devotes some pages to the making of her now-classic TV series Girls, her relationship with musician and producer Jack Antonoff, and her ongoing battle with chronic illness. There are details – if Dunham wasn’t so talented and evocative a writer, it might count as the gossip it’s been treated as – about Adam Driver; about her former creative partner Jenni Konner; about, randomly, the horror filmmaker Ti West; about unnamed Hollywood harassers. But the bulk of the book is about events prior to the early 2020s, which means it only briefly mentions Dunham’s most fully realized post-Girls