"Who among us is noble enough not to envy Lena Dunham?… Jealousy was a given, and forgivable. But the pettiness Dunham’s success inspired was of a kind not usually seen outside children’s parties… human adults became incapable of hiding their envy. Instead, they disguised it as criticism. It wasn’t, they claimed, how Dunham told her story that was the problem. The problem was she thought it was worth telling."
— Elizabeth Gumport takes on the commonplaces that got repeated about Tiny Furniture, n+1: N1FR Issue 2
