Elizabeth Wurtzel on Girls.

TV For the Washington Post. She saw a lot of herself in there:

"I am scared of my 20s. That decade took me down. My Room 13 is being 25 again. I spent every day getting over the night before. I lived downtown in New York City, in every neighborhood south of 14th Street, because I moved all the time, as I ran rampant through life. I had boyfriends who broke lamps to make a point. I ordered in morning coffee at 2 in the afternoon. I did not understand a schedule. My heart had a black and blue mark on it all the time."

Elsewhere, here's Lena Dunham on the final episode. I thought initially it was a bit "These Are The Voyages" in that episode nine felt like the structural end of the series, but on reading this I can appreciate that having episode 9 as the climax isn't very Girls. Episode ten and that final shot it.  Marnie spin-off please?

Where are the Women artists?

Art For the Tate, Jemima Kirke who plays Jessa Johansson in HBO's Girls, presents this short history of women artists and their marginalisation in the history of art. I'm not sure what the answer is to redressing the balance, but certainly the BBC could make a start with a documentary series laying out the whole history of women artists in context, not unlike the section on Judith Leyster here.

The Real Marnie.

TV It's all a bit Harmony Cousins, but the NYT has a profile of Audrey Gelman, politics wonk and real life inspiration for Marnie in Lena Dunham's Girls. Most of the actual politics might be incomprehensible for those of us outside the loop, but there's some nice sketchwork:

"On the night of the primary on Sept. 10, pundits regarded the Democratic race for comptroller as winner-take-all, since no Republican had held that office since the 1940s (John L. Burnett, a Wall Street veteran, is running on that ticket in the Nov. 5 general election).

"Mr. Stringer’s primary night headquarters — Slate, a restaurant and lounge in Chelsea — was humming with nervous anticipation. As union representatives in T-shirts crowded in among young campaign volunteers dressed for a night on the town, and the play-by-play commentary from NY1 boomed from speakers overhead, Ms. Gelman slumped against a far wall, behind a bank of television cameras, nervously thumbing her iPhone."

"Cleary exhausted after weeks of round-the-clock campaigning, she kicked off her Jimmy Choo spike heels and, for a moment, looked like a shell-shock victim ready for the first medevac chopper."

For balance, here are Dunham and Gelman asking each other some questions in The L.

Girls: Season 38.

TV Girls: Season 38. Oh fuck it, I'll just embed the video:



Just one perceptive casting decision after another ...

Miranda July has a new project, We Think Alone.

Art Miranda July has a new project, We Think Alone. The text on the sign up website probably says everything important, so here it is again:

We Think Alone
A project by Miranda July

For On the Tip of My Tongue

Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall

20 e-mails over
20 weeks from the
Sent mail folders of:

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Lena Dunham
Kirsten Dunst
Sheila Heti
Etgar Keret
Kate and Laura Mulleavy
Catherine Opie
Lee Smolin
Danh Vo

First emails arrive July 1st
First subject: AN EMAIL ABOUT MONEY

I've signed up on the strength of those names. Kirsten Dunst? Lena Dunham?  Wow.