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Lena Dunham on sex, oversharing And writing about lost 'Girls' (2014 interview) | Fresh Air

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Dunham says when she started writing HBO's Girls, she was drawn to characters with "a bit of a Zelda Fitzgerald lost, broken woman quality." Her new essay collection is called "Not That Kind of Girl."

This episode originally aired September 29, 2014.

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