Gilmore To Read: Iman Hariri-Kia
Gilmore To Say: A Gilmore Girls Podcast
Tara Llewellyn & Haley McIntosh
4.5 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Gilmore Girls lovers-- on Wednesdays, we talk books!!!
Our first repeat author (our September 2023 Reading Is Sexy pick!) Iman Hariri-Kia is here to chat about her latest novel, Female Fantasy-- the first book from Cosmopolitan's book imprint: Cosmo Reads. Female Fantasy is perfect for Gilmore lovers because it really speaks to the fangirl in all of us, how healing art and romance can be, and just how valid it is to love things exactly the way we do. Anyone down for adding some mermaid vibes into their Gilmore Girls fall???
In the episode, Iman catches us up on everything she's been doing since her first book was published, talks about shouting down the street after yoga with book inspo, what it means to be on a "team" in the romance fiction space, and a bit about the female experience of fantasy in general. What a dreamy gal she is! I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 5, 6, 7, 8, Fantasy. |
| 0:11.2 | Hi, y'all. |
| 0:11.9 | Welcome or welcome back to Gilmore to Read. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm your host, Haley, and I'm so glad to have you here today. |
| 0:16.3 | If this is your first episode of Gilmore to Read, thanks for picking this one. |
| 0:20.1 | We have had quite a few Gilmore to Read. Thanks for picking this one. We have had quite a few |
| 0:21.8 | Gilmore to Read episodes this season, this Gilmore Girls season that is. And that's just because |
| 0:26.6 | there are too many good books coming out and too many good authors writing them to only be |
| 0:32.1 | specifically talking to book club authors, which if you were not a part of our book club, it has the |
| 0:36.1 | same name as the podcast. |
| 0:40.7 | Gilmore to read with two book clubs under the umbrella. |
| 0:45.5 | The first one is Reading is Sexy, where we read Gilmore inspired romance novels. |
| 0:53.0 | It's less of what Rory was reading on the show and more of a book that Rory might be in versus our other book club where you read, I will follow. |
| 0:55.1 | We are reading more of what Rory read on the show or contemporary books that Rory might read if she had a shelf today. Sometimes I like to throw in maybe something that Lorela might have read too into that one. It's a little bit of catch-all, just not romance. And in the past, Gimmon to Read episodes have corresponded to book club picks. But again, like I said, there's just so many good |
| 1:12.0 | authors who love Gilmore Girls the way that we do, who love fandom the way that we do, who I just want to |
| 1:17.0 | have on and talk. And today's guest does fall into that category, but she's actually our first repeat author, |
| 1:22.6 | our first repeat guest on Gilmore to Read. She was our book club pick back in September 2023 for |
| 1:27.5 | reading a sexy with her debut novel, A Hundred Other Girls, and that is, of course, a Mon Hariri |
| 1:32.7 | Kia, who is such a good friend of the podcast. We absolutely love her over here. And I'm so glad that |
| 1:38.7 | she agreed to come back and talk to me again today. There was a lot of technical issues back in the |
| 1:42.9 | end of 2023. And so her episode didn't actually get posted until April 4th, 2024, if you want to go |
| 1:50.0 | looking for it. The episode was titled Aman Hariri Kia is the Rory Gilmore we deserve. |
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