Lena Dunham Is Doing A Great Job Promoting Her New Memoir

Lena Dunham’s 2012 series Girls may have been loved and loathed in equal measure for its bleakly comic approach to depicting sex and self-realization, millennial-style, but this week the show’s star and creator leaned heavily into the love as way of teasing the April 14 release of her new memoir, Famesick. (Even the book’s release timing feels Girls adjacent—the series premiered on HBO on April 15, 2012 and aired its last episode on April 16, 2017.)

On March 24, Dunham posted a carousel of behind-the-scenes photos that included private snapshots of series players Adam Driver, Christopher Abbott, Andrew Rannells, Ebon Moss-Bacharach and Alex Karpovsky (the nostalgic photo dump was set to Fiona Apple’s Valentine).

The post’s caption offers a lengthy tribute to what Dunham dubs the “funniest, weirdest cast of men in Hollywood,” a “freaky boy brigade” who, with their shuffling, unbathed awkwardness, stood firmly apart from the dapper Don Drapers and hunky Jon Snows that dominated the era. She also promises to give the lowdown about the IRL inspirations for these characters in the new book.

Famesick is the 39-year-old star’s second memoir; she published the somewhat messy essay collection, Not That Kind of Girl, in 2014. It’s fair to say Dunham has lived a lot more life since then. Accordingly, Dunham says Famesick will primarily focus on the years between 2010 and 2020, a decade during which her life “changed profoundly and permanently.”

During that time, she went through a painful public breakup with her then-boyfriend Jack Antonoff (which may or may not have inspired a character in her Netflix comedy series, Too Much), had a hysterectomy, went to rehab and ended her creative partnership with Girls co-showrunner and Lenny Letter co-creator Jenni Konner. She also apologized a lot for missteps, made two films, played a Manson family member in a Tarantino film, got married and—if her Instagram is to be taken on faith—adopted a pet pig.

“It’s about me,” she says of Famesick in another post this week, “but whenever I write about me, I hope, deeply, that it’s also about you.” A classic Dunham line that has us marking our calendars for April 14.