NEW YORK (AP) β A section from Lena Dunham’s “Not That Kind of Girl” that recounts an alleged assault while she was in college is being changed to make clear that the assailant’s name is a pseudonym.
Random House announced that the digital edition and future print editions of Dunham’s best-selling memoir will include the clarification.
The book already included a disclaimer saying that some names and details had been changed, but didn’t say precisely that “Barry” wasn’t the real name of Denham’s alleged assailant.
A breitbart.com article had challenged Dunham’s story, saying Dunham had an Oberlin classmate named “Barry” but neither he nor anyone else matched the description in the book.
In a Tuesday statement in Buzzfeed, Dunham apologized for any discomfort the use of the pseudonym might have caused a former classmate.
