--- title: Read Lena Dunham Short Story 'Six Sausages' description: It's about a woman planning a weekend with her visiting not-quite-boyfriend in New York City canonical: https://time.com/4017014/lena-dunham-short-story-six-sausages/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-31T14:30:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:24:04.521Z og:title: Read Lena Dunham's First Short Story in Her New Newsletter og:description: It's titled "Six Sausages" og:url: https://time.com/4017014/lena-dunham-short-story-six-sausages/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c77da4c7fa2622e/698861b2428a9e4907ccee47/lena-dunham1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Lena Dunham at the 2015 Film Society of Lincoln Center Summer Talks with Judd Apatow and Lena Dunham in New York City on July 13, 2015. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Lena Dunham's First Short Story in Her New Newsletter twitter:description: It's titled "Six Sausages" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c77da4c7fa2622e/698861b2428a9e4907ccee47/lena-dunham1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read Lena Dunham's First Short Story in Her New Newsletter by [Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly Aug 31, 2015 2:30 PM UTC  Lena Dunham at the 2015 Film Society of Lincoln Center Summer Talks on July 13, 2015 in New York City. Lena Dunham at the 2015 Film Society of Lincoln Center Summer Talks on July 13, 2015 in New York City.Mike Pont—WireImage/Getty Images by [Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly Aug 31, 2015 2:30 PM UTC Lena Dunham, when she’s not [working on ](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/01/05/girls-hbo-season-5)[_Girls_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/01/05/girls-hbo-season-5)or [musing about her childhood for _The New Yorker_](http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/lena-dunham/all), has a newsletter, [_Lenny_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/14/lena-dunham-jenni-konner-newsletter-lenny), that’s about to launch. For its preview “summer fiction” issue, the writer-actress-filmmaker published a short story, “Six Sausages,” in which a woman plans a weekend with her visiting not-quite-boyfriend in New York City – only to question whether it had gone the way she wanted it to, and whether it would mean anything at all. Read the opening paragraphs here: --- > “” --- For more, [head over to _Lenny_](http://lennyletter.com/). _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/31/lena-dunham-short-story-six-sausages-lenny) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4017014/lena-dunham-short-story-six-sausages/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4017014/lena-dunham-short-story-six-sausages/"},"headline":"Read Lena Dunham's First Short Story in Her New Newsletter","datePublished":"2015-08-31T14:30:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:24:04.521Z","description":"It's titled \"Six Sausages\"","url":"https://time.com/4017014/lena-dunham-short-story-six-sausages/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","lena dunham","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c77da4c7fa2622e/698861b2428a9e4907ccee47/lena-dunham1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Shirley Li / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c77da4c7fa2622e/698861b2428a9e4907ccee47/lena-dunham1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Lena Dunham at the 2015 Film Society of Lincoln Center Summer Talks with Judd Apatow and Lena Dunham in New York City on July 13, 2015.","caption":"Lena Dunham at the 2015 Film Society of Lincoln Center Summer Talks with Judd Apatow and Lena Dunham in New York City on July 13, 2015.","creditText":"Mike Pont—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4017014/lena-dunham-short-story-six-sausages/","name":"Read Lena Dunham's First Short Story in Her New Newsletter"}}]}] ```