Lena Dunham’s forthcoming advice book, Not That Kind of Girl, has sold for $3.7 million to Random House. In addition to chapters on love, friendship, and work, the book will also include “an account of some radically and hilariously inappropriate ways I have been treated at work/by professionals because of my age and gender.”
Riot Grrrl fans and library nerds take note: for their October issue, The Believer asked Lisa Darms, a senior archivist at NYU’s Fales Library, to curate a selection of her favorite documents and ephemera from the library’s Riot Grrrl collection. The good stuff is behind a paywall, but it’s worth picking up a copy of the issue for.
Contrary to one rumor, critic Clive James is not only alive and well—he’s also translating Dante’s Inferno.
When he’s not working on essays, Nicholson Baker has been writing and performing protest songs in his barn in rural Maine. His most recent releases are about military involvement in South Korea and Libya, NATO involvement in Afghanistan, and Army whistleblower Bradley Manning.
Monty Python co-founder John Cleese is writing a memoir, which was sold to Random House on Monday. The author, now 72, remarked that “it’s the perfect moment to look back on my life in anticipation of the next fifty years.”
The Merchant of Venison, The Things They Curried, Consider the Red Lobster and A Good Flan is Hard to Find are three of our favorite suggestions for the Twitter hashtag #literaryrestaurants.
