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Lena Dunham to help oversee imprint at Random House

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FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2015 file photo, Lena Dunham attends The Hollywood Reporter\'s Women in Entertainment Breakfast in Los Angeles. Dunham and Jenni Konner are building off their feminist newsletter Lenny and launching their own book imprint at Random House. The publisher announced Wednesday, April 6, 2016, that the imprint will be called Lenny and will start releasing books in 2017. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Lenny, the feminist newsletter co-founded by author and “Girls” creator Lena Dunham, is becoming Lenny the publishing imprint.

Random House announced Wednesday that Dunham and Jenni Konner 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 bestselling “Not That Kind of Girl” in 2014.

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This story corrects spelling to Konner from Kooner.

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