Actress new book sells out in 24 hours

A surprise new book by Lena Dunham, collecting her journals from a decade ago, has sold out less than 24 hours after the writer announced its release. Guardian UK reported.

Dunham’s 56-page chapbook, Is It Evil Not to Be Sure? was unveiled on Tuesday afternoon.

Priced at $25 (8 thousand Naira), the 2,000-copy first print had sold out by Wednesday morning, although it is still available as an ebook in the US.

The actor, writer, producer, and director released the Beyoncé-styled book called Is It Evil Not to Be Sure? which contains diary entries from 2005–06.

Is it evil not to be sure? is a collection of entries from Lena Dunham’s diary—or what she called her “Creative Snippets and Observations Journal”—from the fall of 2005 and the spring of 2006. It is a candid, chaotic, and occasionally poetic snapshot of a young person becoming an adult.

Dunham explained on her website Lenny that she had found the diaries from 2005 and 2006 on an old hard drive earlier this year. She had been in bed after surgery, she said, and was “feeling painfully adult”.

“I was, of course, full of the kind of mortification that is part and parcel with meeting a former version of yourself, a woefully misguided girl desperate to be embraced by even the least exemplary specimens of young American malehood,” wrote Dunham. “But I was also moved by – maybe even proud of – how carefully I had recorded that period of time, my younger self’s commitment to capturing the kinds of hyper-internal formative moments so often lost to adulthood.”

All profits from the book are being donated to Girls Write Now, an award-winning writing and mentoring organization based in New York that supports and empowers young women.

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