Lena Dunham's Camping Is One Bad Trip

In her 20s, Lena Dunham built a multimedia empire around the maxim "write what you know." But one young life can fuel only so many stories, and so the creator and star of Girls, now 32, is branching out: on Oct. 14, she and Girls co-showrunner Jenni Konner return to HBO with Camping, an eight-episode series whose characters bear far less resemblance to Dunham.