Only two weeks in to Season 4 of HBO's 'Girls' and you already can't get enough right? JK. Sometimes (often) it feels like I'm the only person rooting for this show anymore, but if you, like me, still care and think 'Girls' is great, then enjoy the following reading list:
Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham -- Perhaps a bit on the nose, but if this is what you like, then you will like it.
How Should a Person Be by Sheila Heti -- A really great novel about friendship between creative women in Toronto. Also some truly unfortunate sex scenes that share a sensibility with 'Girls.'
Anything by the lovely Jane Smiley, director of the Iowa Writers Workshop, where our intrepid heroine is enrolling this season. A Thousand Acres is terrific and I've heard great things about her latest novel as well.
Little Women by Louis May Alcott -- Everyone cites 'Sex and the City' as the natural predecessor but any group of four women coming-of-age and having mostly shitty stuff happen to them owes everything to Little Women. This viewpoint is clearly shared by Lena Dunham who included a really funny and sweet allusion to the novel in Season 2. FYI - Hanna is Jo, Marnie is Meg, Shoshanna is Amy, Ray/Adam are very likely Marmee, and Jessa is no one because the March sisters don't have a really useless, annoying, selfish sister....maybe Beth?
Books For TV Lovers is a recurring post that rounds up a reading list of titles inspired by my favorite TV shows.