Who
Lena Dunham is a writer, director, and actor, the creator of Girls, and a reader before any of it. She first read A Room with a View as a teenager and has gone back to it for twenty years.
The book
Forster’s funniest novel and his most dangerous: a dutiful English girl goes to Florence, watches a man die in the piazza, and comes home to choose between the fiancé everyone approves of and the one who makes her feel alive.
What you’ll come away with
A way to read Lucy’s choice as your own: which of your loves are sanctioned and deadening, which are frightening and true, and what a brush with death does to the difference.
