Joanna Rakoff

My latest essay, for Joanna Goddard , on my favorite show of all time, which helped me figure out how to be a mother and a daughter and also just my own Rory-like self!

I’d be delighted if you wanted to give it a read!!! ❤️

How Gilmore Girls Helped Me Understand My Mother | Cup of Jo Two decades ago, on a blistering winter night, I turned on the television, and my whole life changed...

I've been getting a lot of pleas for reading suggestions and realized that a. I've not been posting about my reading over the past few months (and I'll get back on it this week) and b. I'm not sure I've officially mentioned here that I write a monthly column for Jane Ratcliffe's wonderful Substack Beyond, which covers what I'm reading and watching and thinking about. If you'd like to follow along with my reading, perhaps subscribe! (Link in comments.) And here's my September column, which includes thoughts on Laurie Colwin and the concept of "women's fiction," and gets into four new (amazing) coming of age tales.

A Life in Books (and other wonderful things) with Joanna Rakoff Ah, the Nineties! When Joan Didion was considered a lightweight and novels about women were dismissed as "small"!