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Jun 2024
2h 13m

Yulin Kuang’s Fangirl Heart Led Her To H...

Tara Llewellyn & Haley McIntosh
About this episode

Hi book besties! Welcome back to another episode of Gilmore To Read. Today is one of my favorite episodes with the one and only Yulin Kuang— author, director, screenwriter, photographer, and amateur ice skater. You might have heard she’s adapting two of Emily Henry novels for the screen, but her debut novel How To End A Love Story proves she has a precise voice all of her own. 

In this episode, we talk about Reading Is Sexy's May pick How To End A Love Story (spoiler chat at the end per usual!) and its NaNoWrMo beginnings. Plus, how her creative pursuits began as a result of her deeply rooted fandom gene, what EmHen characters her characters would connect to, what she considers the work of the author, and what her dream film project would be. It’s a long episode and we cover soso much. I could’ve talked to her for two more hours. She’s such a lighthearted, kind, deeply thoughtful human with a gorgeous mind I am glad she shares a slice of in this episode.

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