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Image: Lena Dunham via Instagram
HBO has confirmed the sixth season of Girls, due to premiere next year, will be the show’s last. It’s devastating for fans who’ve relished five seasons of the raw portrayal of life, love and sex on the small screen – an antidote to the glamour and unrealistic expectations of Sex And The City, as much as we (still) love it.
But the end of Girls is unlikely to be the last we’ll see of the series’ prolific creator, Lena Dunham. In fact it’s definitely not, because the director, author and actor announced on Wednesday that she’s set to release a second book after her successful 2014 memoir Not That Kind Of Girl.
Due next year, the book is titled Best and Always and will be a collection of short stories, as the 30-year-old revealed on Instagram. She made the announcement off the back of the publication of her website Lenny Letter’s summer fiction issue, in which Lena has a short story called The Mechanic.
“This issue was also an exciting lil’ way to let you know that I’m at work on my first fiction collection, Best and Always, to be published next year by Random House,” she wrote. “Thrilled to share a hint of it with you.”
Judging from the very first paragraph of The Mechanic, Lena is set to bring more of her original observations and beautiful prose with Best and Always.
You’re already fifteen minutes late to pick me up. I’m standing in the front hall in my baby-doll dress and prairie boots, pretending to inspect a photograph of my young grandmother releasing a seagull from her sandy hand, when Dad comes in from his office. He scans me up and down. “Boots? It’s summer, doll.
Read The Mechanic at Lennyletter.com.
