Lena Dunham’s details could fill whole novels.
When the filmmaker, showrunner and author trains her eye on something, her throwaway descriptions elucidate grand phenomena. In a recent New Yorker piece, for instance, she recalled how in her early 20s, she and her pals were “entangling our limbs in that way you stop doing with your guy friends once you’ve entered your first real monogamous relationship.”
Now the one-of-a-kind voice and creator of “Girls,” “Tiny Furniture” and “Too Much” is rejiggering the staid book tour format. In a series of conversations supporting “Famesick,” her second memoir, Dunham is appearing onstage not in a chair with a bottle of water by her side but in a bed.
One reason, she told the New York Times, is to be playful. Another is comfort. Dunham has endometriosis, a painful condition in which tissue grows outside the uterus, and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a connective tissue disorder that can cause joint instability and chronic pain.
Under the auspices of City Arts & Lectures, Dunham speaks with Michael Lewis at the Sydney Goldstein Theater.