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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • On this selection of non-public essays, the cherished superstar of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood reveals tales approximately Lifestyles, love, and dealing as a lady in Hollywood—in conjunction with in the back of-the-scenes dispatches from the set of the brand new Gilmore Ladies, where she performs the quick-speaking Lorelai Gilmore as soon as once more.

With a brand new bonus chapter

In Talking as Speedy as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a second and appears again on her Lifestyles, sharing giggle-out-loud tales approximately rising up, beginning out as an actress, and, years later, sitting in her trailer at the Parenthood set and asking herself, “Did you, um, make it?” She opens up in regards to the demanding situations of being unmarried in Hollywood (“Strangers had been concerned approximately me; that’s how lengthy I used to be unmarried!”), the time she Was once requested to audition her butt for a task, and her enjoy being a pass judgement on on Project Runway (“It’s like I had a way-triggered blackout”).

In “What It Was once Like, Phase One,” Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Ladies marathon and displays on being solid as the quick-speaking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay “What It Was once Like, Phase ” unearths the way it felt to pick out up the position once more 9 years later, and what doing so has supposed to her.

A few extra issues you’re going to find out about Lauren: She as soon as attempted to move vegan simply to bond with Ellen DeGeneres, she’s conscious that assembly men at awards presentations has its pitfalls (“In the event you’re assembly anyone for the primary time after 3 hours of hair, make-up, and styling, you’ve already set the bar too prime”), and she or he’s a card-sporting REI consumer (“My bungee cords now earn issues!”).

Together with pictures and excerpts from the diary Graham saved all through the filming of the contemporary Gilmore Ladies: A Yr within the Lifestyles, this ebook is sort of a comfortable evening in, catching up together with your perfect loved one, guffawing and swapping tales, and—after all—speaking as Speedy as you’ll be able to.