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“Aura chooses Manhattan over Brooklyn, art over hobbies. And why shouldn’t she? Just because some people overcome obstacles in order to succeed doesn’t mean obstacles are necessary to success. Who knows what they might have achieved without them? Maybe their movies would be better. If they aren’t, it’s not Lena Dunham’s fault, and there’s no reason she should be made to pay for the fact that some people live in Park Slope. We ought instead to be inspired by Dunham’s allegiance to her own experience—to having it, to recording it. If we’re not, perhaps that’s because it wakes in us the dormant worry that we’ve betrayed our own. The value Tiny Furniture places on ordinary existence calls all of us to account. Which life did you leave unloved?“
- Elizabeth Gumport
