Author Ann Hood is joined by authors Tracey Minkin, Rand Richards Copper, and Michael Ruhlman to discuss LIFE’S SHORT, TALK FAST: 15 Writers on Why We Can’t Stop Watching Gilmore Girls, a celebration of a contemporary TV classic, and their personal relationships to the show.

About the book:

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 Kim; Freya North connects with her son through the show; Francesco Sedita discovers an antidote to pandemic loneliness; Nina de Gramont offers a comic ode to the unreality of Stars Hollow. For anyone who identifies as Team Logan, Team Jess, or even Team Dean, Life’s Short, Talk Fast reveals what Gilmore Girls tells us about ourselves—and why it matters.
 
This publication has not been prepared, approved, or licensed by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.; Warner Bros Television; or any other entity or individual associated with the creation or production of Gilmore Girls.

About the authors:

Contributor and editor of "Life's Short, Talk Fast", Ann Hood is the author of a dozen books of memoir and fiction, including, most recently, The Stolen Child and the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most and The Knitting Circle, and editor of the anthologies Knitting Years and Knitting Pearls. 

Tracey Minkin is an award-winning writer and editor for 30+ years, covering travel, design, culture, and lifestyle topics for a diverse portfolio of magazines and digital platforms. Her writing has appeared in magazine brands including Southern Living, Coastal Living, Travel + Leisure, Outside, Food & Wine, Men's Journal, VERANDA, and many more. She was a founding editor of GoLocalProv.com, an all-digital news and information site in Providence, Rhode Island, and recently was a contributing editor to WILDSAM's Guide to the Hudson Valley & Catskills. She has worked as an assigning editor at Rhode Island Monthly Magazine and Coastal Living Magazine, where as the Travel Editor she won three Lowell Thomas General Excellence Awards, including two gold medals. Tracey is also a speaker, panelist, and workshop leader on travel writing, travel photography, and social media at a variety of travel writing conferences and courses.

Rand Richards Cooper is the author of two works of fiction, The Last to Go and Big As Life. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ, Esquire, The Atlantic, and in Best American Short Stories. He has been Writer-in-Residence at Amherst and Emerson colleges. A longtime contributor to Bon Appétit and the New York Times, Rand lives in Hartford, CT with his family. He is the restaurant critic for the Hartford Courant and has been a critic and essayist for Commonweal for over two decades. The Last to Go was produced for television by ABC.

Michael Rulhman is an award-winning author, cook, and journalist who specializes in writing about food and chefs. He's written or co-authored more than 30 books, including cookbooks, fiction, memoir, and non-fiction. Some of his notable works include The Elements of Cooking, Ratio, Ruhlman's Twenty, and The Making of a Chef trilogy. He's also collaborated with chefs like Thomas Keller and Eric Ripert on their cookbooks.