The long-awaited (with bated breath) day arrived yesterday. Girls’ star Lena Dunham and her writing partner, Jenni Konner have launched the “Lenny Letter”-an e-mail news-“zine”, “anti-website” targeted at millennial feminists who think Dunham is funny. (I know, oh joy!) The launch of the Lenny Letter kicks off with a lengthy welcome letter and an interview with queen of the e-mails herself, Hillary Clinton. Dunham, of course gushes about her time with Clinton, calling it “the best hour of her life.”
In the interview, Dunham asks candid (and I am sure what she thinks are witty) questions of the 2016 Democratic hopeful:
Dunham: “So, so many of our Lenny readers are women in their 20s who are in that hazy space between college and the real world. They’re not sure what they want to be, how they’re going to be that. And we wondered how you felt when you graduated from college. For example, I worked at a children’s clothing store, which I was terrible at. I read that you went and worked at a salmon cannery in Alaska, which sounded like a fairly post-collegiate move. I wondered what inspired that and whether you ever had that moment of indecision.”
A children’s clothing store? Really, Lena? Based on your memoirs from your book, I will leave that one alone right where it is. Hillary’s response:
Absolutely. I don’t trust anybody who says that they didn’t have some questions in their 20s. That’s a period of such exploration and often torment in people’s lives. And so, when I graduated from college, I had made the decision I was going to go to law school, but it was a hard decision. I wasn’t quite sure that was exactly the right thing to do, but I thought I would give it a try.
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