Lena Dunham’s Memoir Will Carry Clarification of “Barry”‘s Identity

Lena Dunham and her publisher Random House have announced that her memoir Not That Kind of Girl will now carry clarification that the name she uses for the man she says sexually assaulted her while she was a student at Oberlin College is defintely a pseudonym. Another man with the name she chose for that person has said that the description of that individual closely matches him; he also was at Oberlin at the time.

Eugene Volokh of the popular blog The Volokh Conspiracy analyzes the defamation issue here for the Washington Post.