Event
Life's Short, Talk Fast: A Reading and Conversation
Join us Wednesday, November 20, at 7 pm for a book event celebrating the publication of “Life’s Short, Talk Fast: 15 Writers on Why We Can’t Stop Watching Gilmore Girls,” an anthology that explores 15 writers’ perspectives on the hit show and cultural phenomenon, “The Gilmore Girls.” Editor Ann Hood and contributing writers Rand Richards Cooper and Tracey Minkin will be present for a conversation that evening.
$25 General Admission ticket includes the purchase of the book. River Bend Bookshop is our official book partner for this event – they will be onsite with books in hand.
Glögg and warm apple cider will be available for sale at concessions (while supplies last).
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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 re-watchable, 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.
