Lena Dunham, the 26-year-old creator of the HBO sitcom "Girls" and the 2010 indie film "Tiny Furniture" has a $3.7 million book deal with Random House, and Gawker just leaked the proposal.
The book will be called "Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's 'Learned.'" The 66-page proposal is written in the style of an old-school etiquette book for young women, but includes sections chapters like:
"Take my virginity (no really, take it): My first time"
"Psychotic overwrought emails I've sent to guys, or: How to ruin a perfectly good thing"
"Travel (offending people in Sweden, Japan, Israel and Cuba)"
She also includes a chapter replicating a food diary she kept during 2010 that LenaBook-1" target="_blank">recorded everything she ate.
The proposal includes quirky blue and white illustrations depicting a woman, evidently Dunham, in various states of duress and undress.
After the leak, Twitter users were quick to spread bits of the text using the hashtag #lenadunhambookexcerpts.
Dunham got her break with the release of her film "Tiny Furniture," which she wrote and starred. It features a New York girl who returns home from college in the Midwest, a plot that closely mirrors Dunham's own life.
The film won Best Narrative Feature at South by Southwest in 2010. That success enable her to collaborate with Judd Apatow on a series for HBO.
The next year she previewed three episodes of her sitcom "Girls," which were well-received. The show premiered in 2012 and has since been nominated for four Emmy Awards.
The show centers around a group of twenty-something friends adjusting to living on their own in Brooklyn after being lured there by the appeal of a "Sex and the City"-type lifestyle.
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