Following her 2014 memoir, “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned,” multihyphenate director, writer and author Lena Dunham returns with ‘Famesick,’ a book that Dunham claims shows her as more mature, reflecting on her relationship to fame and to herself. 

The memoir mainly takes place in the 2010s, during the time Dunham created her hit HBO show “Girls.” 

This sounds like an extremely interesting read providing fans and readers alike with a deeper understanding of Dunham.

 However, upon its release, critics and readers have been asking one question: Why did Lena Dunham write another memoir?

“Girls” acts as a modernized “Sex and the City,” following a group of young women through a modern New York City landscape as they come to grips with the relationships between themselves and each other. The show was praised, discussed widely and applauded for its witty writing. 

It’s no secret that Dunham has always been a controversial figure ESPECIALLY during the show’s popular five-year run

Viewers took note of its lack of diversity and often limiting views around what it means to be a woman. 

Looking back now, these things aren’t just criticisms, they are true, which makes her new memoir “Famesick” even more frustrating. 

Fans took note of her lack of accountability, especially surrounding a sexual assault allegation made against one of her writers on “Girls.” At the time, she openly defended him, and later on, when confronted with the controversy again, stated she “didn’t remember” writing it. That is what makes “Famesick” so disappointing, and, quite frankly, unnecessary. Memoirs, especially a followup, should show growth or accountability, but instead, Dunham portrays herself as sickly. The narrative she writes is one of a person stuck in a victim complex, unable to fully acknowledge the error of their ways, and instead tries to self-preserve (something Dunham has done consistently throughout her career).