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Coffee at Luke's

An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest

Edited by Jennifer Crusie

In the fall of 2000, Gilmore Girls premiered on the WB and viewers were introduced to the quirky world of Stars Hollow and the Gilmores who had made it their home, mother-daughter best friends Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. Coffee at Luke's is the perfect look at what made the show such a clever, beloved part of the television landscape for so long.

What are the risks of having your mother be your best friend? How is Gilmore Girls anti-family, at least in the traditional sense? What’s a male viewer to do when he finds both mother and daughter attractive? And how is creator Amy Sherman-Palladino like Emily Gilmore? From the show’s class consciousness to the way the characters are shaped by the books they read, the music they listen to and the movies they watch, Coffee at Luke's looks at the sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking underpinnings of smart viewer’s television staple, and takes them further into Stars Hollow than they’ve ever been before.

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Introduction: Coffee at Luke's
Jennifer Crusie
Whimsy Goes with Everything
Heather Swain
Boys Not Allowed
Jennifer Armstrong
When Paris Met Rory
Stephanie Whiteside
Mothers, Daughters, and Gilmore Girls
Janine Hiddlestone
The Best-Friend Mom
Stephanie Lehmann
In Defense of Emily Gilmore
Charlotte Fullerton
My Three Dads
Miellyn Fitzwater
Your Guide to the Real Stars Hollow Business World
Sara Morrison
Happiness Under Glass
Jill Winters
It's Not Luke's Stubble
Stephanie Rowe
Dining with the Gilmores
Gregory Stevenson
Reading, Rory, and Relationships
Maryelizabeth Hart
"That's What You Get, Folks, For Makin' Whoopee"
Kristen Kidder
Golden Age Gilmore Girls
Chris McCubbin (IMGS, Inc.)
"Mama Don't Preach"
Carol Cooper

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