Lena Dunham’s funny self-help manual, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’sLearned, just sold last week to Random House (in a bidding war for more than $3.5 million) andprobably won’t hit stores for at least a year—but it’s already all over the Curve, with people simultaneouslyanticipating it, decrying it, and defending it. Meanwhile, cultural products that actually exist arefinding it easier to build consensus, like Nashville (TV’s best new country-music drama), Argo (earlyOscar front-runner), and Looper (fun but a little incomprehensible).
