If you’ve followed the career of Lena Dunham and read some of her most poignant writing for this magazine, you’re likely aware that she’s not afraid to bare her personal struggles—with relationships, with health, with extra-long nails . An ability to combine profound reflection on the body with insight on the grit and humor of everyday life is one of the hallmarks of her nonfiction writing. “My nurse,” she wrote in an essay about her hysterectomy for Vogue , “is a model-gorgeous woman, sardonic and odd, like the sidekick on a TV show who producers pretend is less stunning by slapping spectacles on her.”

This spring, 10 years after the release of her best-selling memoir Not That Kind of Girl , she will publish her second book, Famesick , a nonfiction work about how health troub

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