Lena Dunham has a rare ability to put her deepest insecurities down on paper, and then act them out on screen. That talent is the foundation of her popular, Emmy-nominated HBO show Girls, a near overnight media phenomenon that revolves around the funny failures and emotionally messy struggles of her overeducated group of Brooklyn hipster friends. Starring in the show she created (with Judd Apatow as executive producer), Dunham’s disheveled anti-heroine Hannah (and the rest of the cast) perfectly conveys the angst and awkwardness of today’s twenty-somethings looking for love (or often just sex) and work.The tireless Dunham, a widely-followed quipster on social media, recently inked a $3.7 million book deal of her essays.