Reviews round-up
Famesick
by Lena Dunham
4 of 8 critics positive
9 reviews: 4 positives, 4 mixed; 1 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“searingly funny, shockingly honest memoir”
Famesick: Lena Dunham makes us laugh about a dream job turned brutal nightmare
“there is so much more to this book than simple score-settling”
There’s so much more to Lena Dunham’s exposing memoir than Adam Driver
“unusually unfiltered memoir”
In ‘Famesick,’ Lena Dunham Diagnoses Celebrity, Illness and Herself
“bracingly honest memoir”
In Famesick, Lena Dunham tells the whole, painful truth
“the corrosive effect of living through one's work”
Lena Dunham and the art monster
“doesn’t always make it easy to feel sorry for her”
Famesick by Lena Dunham review – when celebrity causes side-effects
Famesick by Lena Dunham: Health hazards of the Hollywood dream machine
“Cautionary Tale of Filmmakers Doing TV”
Lena Dunham’s “Famesick” Is a Cautionary Tale of Filmmakers Doing TV
Famesick — the ecstasy and heartbreak of being Lena Dunham
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