From the New York Times, this is the interview.

I'm David Markezy.

There are very few celebrity memoirs I've been more eager to read than Lena Dunham's famesick.

That's partly because she's such a sharp, funny writer.

It's also partly because her HBO show, Girls, was a true generational touchstone, but a bigger part of it is because I knew

she'd have smart things to say about what exactly she represented to people back in the 2010s.

Dunham, if you'll remember, was a lightning rod for so much discourse.

Her show was divisive and buzzy, sure, but probably not as much as she was.

During the days of girls, which Dunham created when she was only 24,

she was scolded for being unself-aware, an over-sharer, privileged, not attractive enough, self-absorbed, you name it.

Now, she did, and she'll admit this, have an unfortunate knack for putting her foot in her mouth.

But there was something about the intensity of the reaction to her that, in retrospect,

seems awfully disproportionate.

As she reveals in the new book, things were just as turbulent behind the scenes.

In addition to writing about her toxic relationship with fame, Dunham tells, in detail,

how she was concurrently dealing with drug abuse, dysfunctional sexual relationships, and chronic illness.

It's a lot. And now, at nearly 40, she's ready to talk about it all. Here's my conversation

with Lena Donham. Thank you so much. I like your, uh, oh, thank you. I'm a bunny owner, so

it's nice. Oh, you have bunnies. Oh, yeah, in my apartment. Free roaming bunnies. Yeah.

I feel deeply connected to rabbits. They're the most, they have the most highly, like, wound up nervous system of any animal, and their nervous system is like their superpower and their curse. And I love that about them. And when a rabbit relaxes, it's a huge compliment because they don't do it in nature. It's like completely antithetical. The ears are always straight up, right? Yeah. Unless they have flop, unless they've been read to flop. But if a rabbit relax around you, you're like, I have achieved a feat because in nature, this rabbit would be ready to run at all times.

Yeah.

You know, we were just making small talk here and talking so nicely out in the hall.

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