The Lenny Letter, the feminist website and newsletter created by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner in 2015, is, as was widely expected and reported this week, will shut down today, the co-creators confirm.
The closure is addressed in an open letter posted on the site and credited to Dunham, Konner and editorial and creative director Molly Elizalde. “While there’s no one reason for our closure,” they write, “this change allows for growth and a shift in perspectives — ours and yours.” (Read the entire statement below).
“Be prepared for a day of unmitigated nostalgia!,” Dunham tweeted this morning.
The (once) twice-weekly newsletter is reported to have peaked with about 500,000 subscribers, though numbers dwindled at least through the past year.
The newsletter-website was a holdover from the professional partnership of Girls co-creators Dunham and Konner (their current HBO comedy Camping will apparently be their last). The duo split last June, with Konner...
The closure is addressed in an open letter posted on the site and credited to Dunham, Konner and editorial and creative director Molly Elizalde. “While there’s no one reason for our closure,” they write, “this change allows for growth and a shift in perspectives — ours and yours.” (Read the entire statement below).
“Be prepared for a day of unmitigated nostalgia!,” Dunham tweeted this morning.
The (once) twice-weekly newsletter is reported to have peaked with about 500,000 subscribers, though numbers dwindled at least through the past year.
The newsletter-website was a holdover from the professional partnership of Girls co-creators Dunham and Konner (their current HBO comedy Camping will apparently be their last). The duo split last June, with Konner...
- 10/19/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
As we roll into February our thoughts may be on the upcoming Spring or the season of love. But we also need to be mindful that February is also Black History Month, and on February 13th the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies in New York is offering a one night class on Black horror. Led by author Dianca London Potts this special evening will offer an overview of Black horror cinema, a genre spanning back to the early 1900s. A trailer has been cut to promote the program; itself a thorough selection of some of Black horror cinemas greatest hits and icons. Screen Anarchy is pleased to have been asked to premier it. Check it out below. You will find ticket information on...
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