Edited by Ann Hood
Published by Dialogue Books
14 November 2024
Hardback | £20.00 | ISBN: 9781408749005
Gilmore Girls hit our screens in 2000 and has been our autumn obsession ever since. Featuring iconic fall fashion, seasonal festivities, and countless cosy coffeehouse meetups, there’s a reason that Vogue calls Gilmore Girls ‘the quintessential autumn girl show’.
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 town of Stars Hollow. To many, it is not only a classic comfort show, but a lifestyle, having even been called ‘a religion’. It is no surprise therefore that, years later, we’re still head over heels with Stars Hollow.
More than twenty years after its release, Gilmore Girls has become one of the most-streamed TV shows, ever. Now, fans have the chance to rediscover the world of Lorelai and Rory in new form. Life’s Short, Talk Fast is an anthology as intimate and quick-witted as Gilmore Girls itself, in which bestselling author Ann Hood invites fifteen writers to investigate their personal relationships to the show, reintroducing readers to the twinkle lights and movie nights that so captivate audiences.
UK-based authors Freya North and Yassmin Abdel-Magied explore how the show illuminated and explored their relationships with their own family members. Freya discusses how it led her to form a deeper connection with her 21-year-old son, who discovered the show in his final year of university’. Yasmin reflects on the difficult and often unclear boundaries between mothers and daughters illuminated in the mother-daughter dynamics between Emily, Lorelai, and Rory. Nina de Gramont offers a comic ode to the unreality of the Stars Hollow world, hinged on the impossible vastness of Lorelai Gilmore’s coat collection (which she compares to Carrie Bradshaw’s shoe collection).
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.
About Ann Hood
Ann Hood is the author of over a dozen novels, including the bestsellers The Knitting Circle, The Obituary Writer, The Book That Matters Most, Fly Girl and Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine; and several memoirs, including the bestsellers Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love and Food and Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, which was named one of the top ten books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island and New York
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