Yulin Kuang’s Fangirl Heart Led Her To Her Creative Writing Career

Gilmore To Say: A Gilmore Girls Podcast

Tara Llewellyn & Haley McIntosh

Leisure, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.7 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Hi y'all. Welcome back to Gilmore to Read. I'm your host, Haley, and I know that I say this a lot when I started an episode, but this is one of my favorite episodes of Gilmore to read that I have done.
0:09.2	Today's conversation is with Yuling Kwong to discuss her debut novel, How to End a Love Story, which was reading a sexist pick for May, and she's one of my favorite guests that I have had. From her bio, Yuling Kwong is a screenwriter and director
0:21.8	whose credits include the CW's I Ship It and Hulu's Dollface. She was once fired from a Hallmark
0:27.3	movie for being, quote, two hit for Hallmark, and is the adapting writer director of Emily Henry's
0:32.7	Beach Read feature film for 20th Century Studios, as well as the screenwriter of the forthcoming people
0:38.0	we meet on vacation film for 3,000 pictures. Eulene's own debut novel, How to End a Love
0:43.0	Story, was Reese Witherspoon's May 24 book club pick, as well as ours, and has been featured
0:48.8	on Vogue L, People Magazine, NPR, and more. In this episode, we talk about how deep her love of fandom runs, which of course includes Gilmore Girls,
0:57.4	what it's like adapting Emily Henry's novels to the screen, and of course talk about her book,
1:02.2	How to End a Love Story, with a spoiler chat at the end.
1:05.0	But before we can end a love story, she first tells us how it started, which includes creative
1:09.2	hobbies and national novel writing month.
1:11.7	But I will let Yuling Huang tell you about it herself.
1:20.8	I was really glad that I got to see you in conversation with Emily Henry in April, actually,
1:25.9	because you said something that made me feel
1:28.1	like I've never had a unique experience in my life. And that was that she explained or described
1:33.6	you as being kind of like chill. And you were like, oh, actually I have a list of like small talk
1:39.1	topics sitting here, like small talk with Emily Henry. And that's how all of my author interviews
1:43.7	start. I have like small talk with Eileen. And then how all of my author interviews start. I have like
1:44.8	small talk with Eileen and then I have like a list of things that like I have like accumulated over
1:49.4	stalking you on Instagram over the last month. I love just to seem like super casual and like I know
1:54.3	random things about you and like we're friends. Yeah no exactly I feel I feel that deeply in my bones. I have never been casual a day in my life.
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