Life's Short, Talk Fast

Fifteen Writers on Why We Can't Stop Watching Gilmore Girls

Edited by  Ann Hood
Life's Short, Talk Fast

National Bestseller

Fifteen leading writers explore what Gilmore Girls means to them in this delightful celebration of a contemporary TV classic.

 


Fast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot introduced us to Lorelai, Rory, and their idyllic Connecticut town of Stars Hollow. More than twenty years later, it has become one of the most-streamed TV shows, ever.

In an anthology as intimate and quick-witted as Gilmore Girls itself, best-selling author Ann Hood invites fifteen writers to investigate their personal relationships to the show. (“It’s a show? It’s a lifestyle. It’s a religion.”) Joanna Rakoff considers how Emily Gilmore helped her understand her own mother; Sanjena Sathian sees herself—and Asian American defiance—in Lane…

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