Millennials are finally old.
A New York Times op-ed declared that the generation’s “task now is figuring out how to age gracefully into this next phase of the generational life cycle.” The Wall Street Journal reported in 2024 that the generation born between roughly the early 1980s and mid-1990s is entering midlife even wealthier than their baby boomer and Generation X predecessors. New York City’s first millennial mayor is stamping his hyper-earnest progressivism on a global financial metropolis.
It’s only natural, then, that filmmaker and Girls creator Lena Dunham — the Michael Jordan of the gushy millennial overshare — has published a second memoir that screams “I am attempting to age gracefully” as much as her first effort, 2014’s Not That Kind of Girl, screamed “I am America’s It Girl and you will listen to my anecdotes about selling Gwyneth Paltrow baby clothes.”
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