Lena Dunham pulls a Beyoncé, drops surprise book

Lena Dunham just changed the game with that literary drop.

Girls creator Lena Dunham pulled a Beyoncé on Tuesday, releasing a surprise new book Is It Evil Not To Be Sure.

The book is a limited edition printing of Dunham's 2005-06 diaries, which offers a brief glimpse at who Dunham describes as "a woefully misguided girl desperate to be embraced by even the least exemplary specimens of young American malehood."

Though Dunham framed the book as a self-deprecating look into the past, the inspiration for the book is empowerment.

"I have always believed that women chronicling their own lives, even (or especially) at their most mundane, is a radical act," Dunham explained in a post on Lenny Letter, her culture website and newsletter.

All profits from the book will benefit Girls Write Now, a mentoring and writing program created to guide and support the creativity of underserved high school girls.

While Dunham may be best known for her show Girls, this isn't her first foray into the literary world. In 2014, she published Not That Kind of Girl, a personal essay collection styled after the advice and self-help books that inspired Dunham as a reader and writer.

That book famously received a $3.7 million advance, sparking a conversation about money, literary price tags and sexism in the way that we evaluate book deals.

You can learn more about Is It Evil Not To Be Sure here.

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