Lena Dunham, Media Mogul
The creator of Girls invades your inbox.
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Early one morning in late September, Lena Dunham e-mailed 200,000 people with the subject line “Lena Dunham interviews Hillary Clinton in Letter No. 1.” This was the debut of Lenny, a biweekly newsletter from Dunham and Jenni Konner, the executive producer of Girls, the HBO comedy Dunham created. (Lenny: Lena and Jenni. Get it?)
It’s been three years since the premiere of Girls, in which Dunham stars as a scattered young Brooklynite, and a year since she published her memoir, Not That Kind of Girl. That she felt restless, at 29, for yet another venture is evidence of both her ambition and her energy. If Dunham were any more of a polymath, she’d be Steve Martin.