Richard Brody on the increasing gap between Lena Dunham and the character she plays in “Girls”: “That gap doesn’t make Dunham’s characterization less personal, only less contemporary—a work of fiction in which she plays a character that draws on memories or imagines a road not taken, but which, either way, casts on herself a shadow of regret and self-doubt.”  Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/Xz9obw

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