Lena Dunham to help oversee imprint at Random House

Lena Dunham
Honoree Lena Dunham attends the 24th annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast in December in Los Angeles.
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Lenny, the feminist newsletter co-founded by author and "Girls" creator Lena Dunham, is becoming Lenny the publishing imprint.

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Lena Dunham's memoir, "Not That Kind of Girl," was published in 2014.
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Random House announced Wednesday that Dunham and Jenni Kooner will oversee a line of books featuring "exciting, emerging voices" in fiction and nonfiction. The imprint will launch in 2017, with a "select" number of titles each year.

Random House published Dunham's best-selling "Not That Kind of Girl" in 2014.

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