Lena Dunham

Natasha Lyonne, pictured here in November 2022, is one of several actors who's auctioning off unique experiences to support TV and movie crews impacted by the ongoing writers' strike Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Vox Media hide caption

Lena Dunham in the series finale of Girls. Mark Schafer/HBO hide caption

Jennifer Lawrence attends a media event for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 in San Diego in July. Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP hide caption

When it comes to picturing Elena Ferrante, readers have even less material than they do on Thomas Pynchon. They'll have to continue to settle for stock photography such as this, a shot of her native Naples, Italy. Angelafoto/iStockphoto hide caption

Lena Dunham's collection of personal essays, Not That Kind of Girl, is her first book. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images hide caption

It was Helen Macdonald's relationship with a goshawk like this one that helped her to grapple with the loss of her father. sirius_r/iStockphoto hide caption

Tom Hanks, perhaps imagining the loss of one of his typewriters. The Kobal Collection hide caption

Roxane Gay has said that she'll be making a "concerted effort" to publish people of color and queer writers. Jay Grabiec hide caption