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"   What do the rich and famous gossip about? It&amp;#039;s a question we&amp;#039;ve often asked ourselves, and thanks to a new book detailing a meeting between Lena Dunham and author Judy Blume, we can now find out. The conversation happened thanks to The Believer magazine, who got the Girls creator together with the author who inspired her with tales of teenage girlhood. It&amp;#039;s a bit like us meeting Jacqueline Wilson, except that probably wouldn&amp;#039;t warrant a whole book. During their chat, which is being published across 80 joyous pages, Lena and Judy discussed writing, breakfast, Fifty Shades of Grey and faking book reports at school.\u00A0 This excerpt will explain that last one... LENA\u00A0DUNHAM: As a kid, what was popular? What were the books people read at school? Was it the Bobbsey Twins and Boxcar Children? JUDY\u00A0BLUME:\u00A0I never read the Bobbsey Twins or Boxcar Children, but\u2014 Both boring.My first favorite books were the ones in the Betsy-Tacy series. But they weren&amp;#039;t popular in school. I didn&amp;#039;t know anyone else who was reading them. I liked Nancy Drew, used my allowance to buy one every week at the Ritz Bookstore. In sixth grade I made up books to give book reports on. You invented them?I did. You would report on a book that had never existed?I did. Were you ever caught?Nope. I always got an A on those. That&amp;#039;s incredible.I just wasn&amp;#039;t interested in the kinds of books I thought I was meant to be reading. I wasn&amp;#039;t that interested in stories about prairie girls or horse stories. I never read a horse book in my life, but I thought that&amp;#039;s what my friends were reading and that&amp;#039;s what I should be reading\u2014Dobbin does this and Dobbin does that. That was the name of your series?It was about a horse named Dobbin, yes. I made up the characters and the theme and I stood up in front of the class and I gave my report. On the books you made up in your mind? Yes. That&amp;#039;s a literary hoax, basically. I had never heard of a literary hoax then. Still, I knew it wasn&amp;#039;t right. The thing is, I was reading. I was reading from the bookshelves at home, but how could I report on those books? I tell teachers now, when I tell this story, I say, &amp;quot;How about just once during the school year, give your students the chance to invent books? See what they come up with.&amp;quot; Did you ever say in the book report that you didn&amp;#039;t like it\u2014that it wasn&amp;#039;t good? I don&amp;#039;t think so. That would be a whole other meta-layer. Let us know your thoughts below or on Twitter at\u00A0@CosmopolitanUK WATCH SCHERZY SING TO NELSON MANDELA CELEBRITIES IN CHRISTMAS JUMPERS KEIRA KNIGHTLEY RE-WEARS HER WEDDING DRESS "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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