Good Thing Going
Good Thing Going, Lena Dunham, Dolly MecklerA considered collection of book recommendations, along with behind-the-scenes glimpses, favorite links, important Etsy discoveries and whispered dreams from Lena Dunham and the Good Thing Going team—published with intention rather than routine.
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If you were a hair accessory, what kind would you be?
Right before my 40th birthday, I posted this note:
One major concern about turning 40 was that I hadn’t yet found a daily hairstyle. That sounds like a dumb lead to an AI listicle but it’s not! All the grown ass women I admire have a loo...
40 Things I Want To Do After Forty
1- Get better at reading maps
All original artwork by Phoebe Ward
2- Learn to make dollhouse furniture (1:2 scale!)
3- Spend six months living by a beach and finally come to grips with sand. It’s not that scary! It’s just tiny rocks!
4-...
DUNHAMISMS #8
If you had told me- when I first started soliciting questions a little over a month ago- just how this exercise would affect me, well, frankly I would have been embarrassed for future Lena. The premise was really just “lol, who would want a...
Dunhamisms #7
“Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of...
Dunhamisms #6: Smug Sisters
Hello little ladies (because we are ALL the ladies, even- and especially- if we’re not.)
As chronicled in Famesick, the day I ate so much Tasti-D that I burped vanilla dust!
As I march ever closer to forty (twelve more days!) I have been...
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Founded by Lena Dunham and Michael P. Cohen, Good Thing Going is an artist-driven media company in love with noisy voices. Here, we share reading lists, behind the scenes chatter, musings on writing, notes on style (and pictures of pigs.)
co-founder of Good Thing Going Productions, interested in: literary hoaxes, bedroom aesthetics, cloven-hoofed animals, accessories with a past, alternative Hollywood histories and more… Have a chronic license 2 ill\ud83d\udc89\ud83d\udc98
I run a strategy and creative consultancy, helping talent and brands translate who they are into how they show up online. Subscribe to Scrollodex for a weekly peek at what my network is building.
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