- Gawker has removed Dunham's $3.7 million book proposal after being contacted by her lawyer
- Buzzfeed has also taken down its post on Dunham's proposal
- "Girls" returns to HBO January 13
(EW.com) -- Didn't get a chance to read "Girls" creator Lena Dunham's $3.7 million book proposal when it leaked online last Friday? Too bad -- Gawker, the site that originally published the proposal, has removed it after being contacted by Charles Harder, the 26-year-old multihyphenate's lawyer.
Buzzfeed has taken down every image from a post titled "9 Passages From Lena Dunham's Book Proposal Illustrated By Her Instagrams" as well.
But while Gawker writer John Cook got rid of the proposal itself -- though it's probably still floating around on the Internet, since Cook posted it as a downloadable Scribd file -- he neglected to scrub several of its quotes from his original blog post despite Harder's cease and desist.
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Instead, Cook has added snide commentary meant "to clarify our intent in quoting the above matter from Dunham's proposal" to each excerpt.
Example: "The quoted sentence demonstrates that Dunham is incapable of conceiving a rationale for writing that doesn't serve the goal of drawing attention to herself."
"Girls" returns to HBO January 13.
See the original article at EW.com.
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