Two cultural icons on sex, making up book reports, Lolita , and lightning.
Ross Simonini
The Believer magazine recently arranged for legendary author Judy Blume (Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Blubber; Deenie) and Girls creator Lena Dunham to interview one another for the magazine's January issue, but the conversation was so lively (and long) that the folks behind The Believer decided to transform it into a mini-book. Judy Blume and Lena Dunham in Conversation is only available as a free bonus for new and returning Believer subscribers (you can order it here), but we got an exclusive early peek. Here are seven (out of many) of the fun things we learned about these two incredible writers:
Judy Blume has a fear of lightning.
"For today it’s severe thunderstorms possible until five o’ clock with a chance of a tornado. And I’m thinking, OK, I’m going to be sitting with Lena, so what we’ll do is, we’ll just go into the closet together—"
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Lena Dunham wrote Quentin Tarantino-esque stories as a child.
"It was all families who gave up their daughter for adoption, then she became a pauper, then she came back to kill them all. It was all so heavy, so deeply heavy, and I called them all novels no matter how short they were."
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