“Girls” recap: Ray wants his “Little Women” back
Poor Staten Island. After being battered and nearly eclipsed by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, it has now suffered an even greater indignity: being made into a metaphor by Ray.If the “Girls” episodes up...
View ArticleThank you for being a friend, Hannah Horvath
The volumes' worth of cultural criticism penned about “Girls” agree only that the show is polarizing, provocative and, above all, unconventional. But now midway through its sophomore season, “Girls”...
View ArticleAnn Patchett on her moment of “Girls” fame: “I am so far out of it!”
Ann Patchett, call your agent.The author of books including "Bel Canto" and "State of Wonder," who also runs a Nashville bookstore, couldn't seem farther removed from the world of HBO's "Girls" -- a...
View ArticleMichael Penn: “Part of me thinks Hannah’s really more the voice of MY...
Musician Michael Penn has the enviable, if not incredibly difficult task of scoring "Girls." OK, that didn't sound quite right. Allow me to rephrase: Penn composes the music for Lena Dunham's HBO...
View Article“Girls” recap: Acting on impulse
Being over the edge can actually be embarrassingly useful. It, like losing one's job, forces confrontations mere happenstance cannot easily achieve. In reasonable doses, it's the means by which we...
View ArticleWhy can’t I hate “The Americans”’ Elizabeth Jennings?
Likability, well on its way to becoming a dirty word, is on everyone’s lips these days: Why aren’t Anne Hathaway and Taylor Swift likable? Why are Jennifer Lawrence and Mila Kunis? What does it matter...
View Article“Girls” recap: Goodbye cruel “Girls”
I don't know how I feel about the new Hannah-in-crisis. One of the great joys of Hannah was that even — especially — in her blundering, raw ineptitude, she was a force that, nonetheless, moved forward....
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Lena Dunham really is the voice of my generation — for better or worse
A few months after I moved to New York, blown-up posters of Lena Dunham’s face began cropping up around the city. Awash in a shimmery, copper light and just out of focus, she looks holy, angelic; the...
View ArticleAnn Patchett on her moment of “Girls” fame: “I am so far out of it!”
Ann Patchett, call your agent.The author of books including "Bel Canto" and "State of Wonder," who also runs a Nashville bookstore, couldn't seem farther removed from the world of HBO's "Girls" -- a...
View ArticleMichael Penn: “Part of me thinks Hannah’s really more the voice of MY...
Musician Michael Penn has the enviable, if not incredibly difficult task of scoring "Girls." OK, that didn't sound quite right. Allow me to rephrase: Penn composes the music for Lena Dunham's HBO...
View Article“Girls” recap: Acting on impulse
Being over the edge can actually be embarrassingly useful. It, like losing one's job, forces confrontations mere happenstance cannot easily achieve. In reasonable doses, it's the means by which we...
View ArticleWhy can’t I hate “The Americans”’ Elizabeth Jennings?
Likability, well on its way to becoming a dirty word, is on everyone’s lips these days: Why aren’t Anne Hathaway and Taylor Swift likable? Why are Jennifer Lawrence and Mila Kunis? What does it matter...
View Article“Girls” recap: Goodbye cruel “Girls”
I don't know how I feel about the new Hannah-in-crisis. One of the great joys of Hannah was that even — especially — in her blundering, raw ineptitude, she was a force that, nonetheless, moved forward....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lena Dunham really is the voice of my generation — for better or worse
A few months after I moved to New York, blown-up posters of Lena Dunham’s face began cropping up around the city. Awash in a shimmery, copper light and just out of focus, she looks holy, angelic; the...
View Article“Girls”: Next season should probably be the last
In this season's first episode of "Girls," Marnie adamantly insisted, “I go into the city to work every day at a job where I am respected. I have friends. I’m getting a new apartment. I‘ve already...
View ArticleThe huge season-finale twist on “Girls” reveals Hannah’s secret plan
It turns out Hannah had spent the third season of "Girls" applying to the Iowa Writers' Workshop!The third season of "Girls" had at times felt meandering, repeating similar themes (Hannah, played by...
View ArticleNYC Council speaker fights stigma with tweet sharing her HPV status
Per the gospel of "Girls," all adventurous women have HPV. Per the gospel of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection and "nearly all...
View ArticleNew Yorker piece proves therapists are the perfect subject for Lena Dunham
When Lena Dunham first announced her memoir, "Not That Kind of Girl," bloggers balked at the prospect of a 20-something writing a book that promised "frank and funny advice" -- especially one netting...
View ArticleThe first trailer for “Girls” Season 4 is finally here!
Attention, everyone, Hannah Horvath has relocated from Brooklyn to Iowa, "taking the next step in a series of random steps." And is apparently making better choices (like eating grapes as a snack).The...
View Article“Girls” nails the Iowa Writers’ Workshop: Why my MFA experience was exactly...
In the latest episode of “Girls,” Hannah attends the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has her first critique, chats over some post-workshop beers at the fiction writers’ dive bar the Foxhead, and deals with a...
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