Opera's Youth in Revolt
Like many who have known the shock of being financially cut off from one’s parents, the pratfalls of navigating post-graduate life in a rocky economy and the galvanizing belief in art for the sake of...
View ArticleA Conversation with Lena Dunham, Creator and Star of HBO's Girls
On this Memorial Day, we’re revisiting some of our favorite Takeaway interviews from the last year, like our conversation back in April with Lena Dunham, creator and star of the hit series Girls.We...
View ArticleMap | Where to Find the 'Girls' in NYC
Lena Dunham first caught people's attention with the indy film Tiny Furniture, which she wrote, directed and starred in. Now her new HBO television series, "Girls," is putting her on the map."Girls"...
View ArticleLena Dunham Inks Book Deal
It's a case of art imitating life.Lena Dunham, the 26-year old writer and star of the HBO show "Girls," has inked a book deal with Random House valued at more than $3.5 million, according to The New...
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The Music Of 'Girls': A Soundtrack, For A Generation
At the very beginning of Lena Dunham's TV series, Girls, lead character Hannah Horvath (also played by Dunham) tells her parents that she thinks she might be "The voice of my generation. Or, at least,...
View ArticleLena Dunham
This week, Alec talks with Lena Dunham, whose hit show on HBO, "Girls," just started its second season. Three years ago, Dunham made a low-budget art house film called "Tiny Furniture." Last week...
View ArticleContext and a T.V. Show: Unsafe Sex on "Girls"
The depiction of unprotected sex on HBO's "Girls" has been criticized for sending the wrong message about how twenty-somethings should think about sex and risk. June Thomas, culture critic for Slate,...
View ArticleLena Dunham’s Girls
Lena Dunham is the creator, director, and star of the new HBO series Girls, and, at 25, happy to be called a girl herself. The show follows four young women trying to carve out adult lives for...
View ArticleLena Dunham & Nneka
Kurt Andersen talks with Lena Dunham, the 25-year-old director, writer, and star of the new HBO series Girls. The Nigerian singer-songwriter Nneka performs live in the studio. And we announce the three...
View ArticleAlex Karpovsky Talks New Yorker Festival
The New Yorker Magazine’s fourteenth annual festival with its customary mix of A-list writers, artists, and Gothamites address topics ranging from the invasion of privacy to where to find "the God...
View ArticleLena Dunham and Elaine Stritch
Decades apart in age, both of Alec Baldwin's guests have broken barriers and blazed new trails in how women are depicted on stage and screen. Alec visits first with Lena Dunham, creator and...
View ArticleThe Unretouched Edition
On this week's episode of Gabfest Radio, Political Gabfest panelists Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss whether President Obama is as tired as he sounds in a recent New Yorker...
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Ten TV Episodes to Watch Before the Golden Globes
With the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, January 11th, time is running out to get up to speed on this year's nominees. So much television, so little time. To make it easier, here's our guide...
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Desiree Akhavan's Breakthrough Breakup
At 16, Desiree Akhavan says she was voted the ugliest girl at her school. In a play that she wrote that same year, Akhavan included a sequence based on the incident, turning a sad, victimizing event...
View ArticleEpisode 7: The Mayor and the Mormon Church, and Roger Angell
High school students in Queens mount a fraught election simulation, Salt Lake City’s openly gay mayor-elect talks about the Mormon Church, and Roger Angell speaks to David Remnick about writing in his...
View ArticleLet's Get Drinks
Why is it so hard to make a simple plan with a friend? Lena Dunham and Allison Williams, from the HBO series “Girls,” perform Kelly Stout’s “Let’s Get Drinks.”Produced by David Krasnow and Paul...
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Stars line up to support Clinton, but it’s not swaying young voters
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is joined by singer Demi Lovato at a campaign event in Iowa City, Iowa. Photo by Jim Young/ReutersIOWA CITY, Iowa — Hillary Clinton has a lot of...
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Molly Ringwald + Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons began taking pictures professionally as a young woman in the 1970s. She shot homey scenes— kitchens stocked with food, living rooms with sofas and TVs. Except really tiny, because she...
View ArticleLena Dunham Turns Thirty
In five seasons of the HBO series “Girls,” Lena Dunham has gotten a lot of mileage out of her twenties. But she and the rest of the show’s cast have grown up, and she’s moving on to other projects....
View Article#12 Phoebe and Lena Dunham Deconstruct the Toilet Selfie
The writer and advocate joins Phoebe for an uncensored conversation about self-censoring, what Girls would look like if it debuted today, and how to dismantle the patriarchy. Plus, Phoebe and her first...
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