Column | Lena Dunham’s memoir about people-pleasing sure airs a lot of grievances
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There’s a good joke that reverberates around the Internet every so often: “Oh, you’re a people pleaser? Name three people who are pleased with you.”
It’s hard not to think of that line while reading Lena Dunham’s new memoir, “Famesick” (her second before reaching the age of 40). It chronicles a decade or so in Dunham’s life when her rapid ascent to the eyewatering heights of creative success and her self-described desire to make people happy resulted in years of medical crises — exacerbated, Dunham writes, when she ignored them to continue on her dogged quest to never let anyone down.
