Author Talk: Lena Dunham – “Famesick”

Lena Dunham — creator, writer, actor and director of the acclaimed television series Girls — will discuss with author Robert Becker her recent bestselling book Famesick and her extraordinary career, at the United Church of Christ, 8 Bolton Hill Road, in Cornwall, CT at 5:30 pm on Saturday, October 10. This event is sponsored by The Cornwall Library.

Called “the voice of her generation,” for the show, Dunham reached a pinnacle of celebrity for her screenwriting, directing, and as one of the series stars in the early 2010s when only in her early 20s. Famesick, an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, traces the ecstatic highs and devastating lows in Dunham’s life and career, and terrible consequences to her health, a book the Guardian called “delicious” and Dunham herself an “absolute powerhouse of a woman, steely eyed, tunnel visioned, who pushed through punishing volumes of work at the highest of levels, year after year after year.”

Join us on Saturday, October 10, at 5:30 pm. Attend in-person only (no Zoom), with registration required. Copies of Famesick will be available for sale and signing.

Lena Dunham is a writer, director, producer and actor. She created the Emmy award winning show Girls, and most recently co-created the Netflix limited series Too Much with her husband, musician Luis Felber. Her fourth feature film, Good Sex, will premiere in spring 2027. As a writer, she contributes regularly to Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. She splits her time between London and Cornwall, where she enjoys hanging with her family, mucking around with her pigs, and the breakfast burrito at the Cornwall Market (no bacon, please).

Robert Becker was on the editorial staff of The Paris Review and Andy Warhol’s Interview and is the author of Nancy Lancaster; Her Life, Her World, Her Art. He has written about art, architecture and history for publications such as Architectural Digest, Town and Country, and British Vogue. He also serves as poetry editor of Upstate Diary and is currently at work on a history of 19th century Hawaii.

Registration is required.