Lena Dunham is set to publish a collection of short stories, her first foray into fiction in book form.
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Titled Best and Always, the collection will be published in 2017 under the Lenny imprint at Random House run by Dunham with her creative partner Jenni Konner.
Dunham made the announcement via Instagram overnight.
"This issue was also an exciting lil' way to let you know that I'm at work on my first fiction collection, Best and Always, to be published next year by Random House," she said. "Thrilled to share a hint of it with you. #ilovewriting #womenwhowrite"
One of the forthcoming collection's stories, called The Mechanic, was released on her Lenny Letter, in its Lenny Summer Fiction issue.
Beneath an illustration by Alejandra Hernandez the story begins:
"You're already fifteen minutes late to pick me up. I'm standing in the front hall in my baby-doll dress and prairie boots, pretending to inspect a photograph of my young grandmother releasing a seagull from her sandy hand, when Dad comes in from his office. He scans me up and down. 'Boots? It's summer, doll.'
"I shrug, a shrug that simultaneously says 'You know nothing' and 'Please rescue me'."
A photo posted by Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) on Aug 30, 2016 at 4:38am PDT
Dunham has published short fiction before on Lenny, in 2015, with the story Six Sausages, and several pieces for The New Yorker.
She has also written her memoirs, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned", after signing a $3.5 million deal with Random house.
The book was published in 2014, reached number two on the New York Times bestseller list and was named one of the 10 best books of the same newspaper.
Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath in Girls.
The Mechanic explores the a relationship between a 21-year-old and an older mechanic.