--- description: Girls creator Lena Dunham announced this morning that she will release 2,000 copies of her brand new, 56-page book called Is It Evil Not to be Sure? The chapter-book will feature her personal journals from over ten years ago and is available online via Lenny Letter, a feminist newsletter spearheaded by Dunham and her creative partner, Jenni Konner. title: Lena Dunham Releases Her Old Diaries as a Book image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a4641c7f1cc73b5/698893820b72e363f76e96a6/lena-dunham-book.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [motto](/tag/motto/) ## motto Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Lena Dunham Releases Her Old Diaries as a Book by [Megan Lasher](/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 17, 2016 5:57 PM CUT  Actress Lena Dunham attends The Hollywood Reporter's 2016 35 Most Powerful People in Media at Four Seasons Restaurant on April 6, 2016 in New York City. Actress Lena Dunham attends The Hollywood Reporter's 2016 35 Most Powerful People in Media at Four Seasons Restaurant on April 6, 2016 in New York City.Noam Galai—WireImage/Getty Images by [Megan Lasher](/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 17, 2016 5:57 PM CUT _Girls_ creator Lena Dunham announced Tuesday morning [on Lenny Letter](http://www.lennyletter.com/life/a391/is-it-evil-an-excerpt-from-lenas-college-diary/ "undefined") that she will release 2,000 copies of a book called _Is It Evil Not to be Sure?_ The book will be 56 pages long and will feature her personal journals from more than 10 years ago. “Earlier this year, recuperating in bed from surgery and feeling painfully adult, I found my journals from 2005/2006 on an old hard drive,” Dunham wrote in her announcement of _Is It Evil Not to be Sure?_ “I was 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.” [_Follow Motto on Facebook._](https://www.facebook.com/mottoworkplaylive/ "undefined") Dunham says this experience inspired her to make her craft more accessible: “I have always believed that women chronicling their own lives, even (or especially) at their most mundane, is a radical act. That’s why I thought the diaries might be worth sharing as a short book, with proceeds going to [Girls Write Now](http://www.girlswritenow.org/what-we-do/ "undefined") and their mission to give young women the tools to tell their own stories.” Hard copies of the book have already sold out, but as Dunham notes, “[e-book copies](https://www.amazon.com/evil-not-be-sure-ebook/dp/B01FMWFG9A?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") are infinite.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4338767/lena-dunham-book-diaries/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4338767/lena-dunham-book-diaries/"},"headline":"Lena Dunham Releases Her Old Diaries as a Book","datePublished":"2016-05-17T17:57:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:02:30.177Z","description":"She'll donate the proceeds to the mentorship program Girls Write Now","url":"https://time.com/4338767/lena-dunham-book-diaries/","keywords":["motto","celebrities","Books","News"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a4641c7f1cc73b5/698893820b72e363f76e96a6/lena-dunham-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Lasher","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a4641c7f1cc73b5/698893820b72e363f76e96a6/lena-dunham-book.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Hollywood Reporter's 2016 35 Most Powerful People In Media","caption":"Actress Lena Dunham attends The Hollywood Reporter's 2016 35 Most Powerful People in Media at Four Seasons Restaurant on April 6, 2016 in New York City.","creditText":"Noam Galai—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/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4338767/lena-dunham-book-diaries/","name":"Lena Dunham Releases Her Old Diaries as a Book"}}]}] ```