Lauren Graham talks about her acting career and about writing her first novel. New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin talks about having a stroke nearly two years ago. Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas and a former advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton, talks about how new technologies are making us re-evaluate all corners of public and private life.

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Lauren attended NBC’s Upfront Presentations on Monday. I’ve added photos from the event to the gallery. Sorry for the slow updates. I’ve been dealing with school finals.

Sorry I’m a little late posting these. I’m in the middle of finals week and it’s been a balancing act. Lauren was on The Ellen Degeneres Show on May 7th. I added screencaps to the gallery and the video to the Video Channel. You can also watch the interview below.

Lauren will be on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight. I’ve added 3 new stills from the show to the gallery.

Lauren held another Barnes & Noble book signing last night. This time the signing took place in LA. I’ve added 38 new photos from the event to the gallery.

I’ve added several new magazine scans to the gallery.

• 001 x US Weekly – May 13, 2013
• 001 x US Weekly – April 29, 2013
• 001 x Redbook – May 2013
• 008 x More Magazine – May 2013
• 001 x Ladies Home Journal – May 2013
• 001 x Entertainment Weekly – May 3, 2013

I’ve added screencaps and stills from Lauren’s recent talk show appearances to the gallery. Lauren has three more talk show appearances scheduled this week. On Tuesday she will be a guest on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Then on Wednesday she will be on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

• 240 x The Today Show: Screencaps
• 012 x The Today Show – Stills
• 478 x LIVE with Kelly and Michael: Screencaps
• 001 x LIVE with Kelly and Michael: Stills
• 700 x Watch What Happens Live: Screencaps
• 030 x Watch What Happens Live: Stills

Lauren recently sat down with USA Today to discuss her new novel Someday, Someday, Maybe.

NEW YORK — The dining room at Sardi’s, the legendary Broadway restaurant, is “beautiful, with burgundy walls and little yellow shaded lamps on all the tables,” just like actress Lauren Graham describes it in her debut novel.

In a scene in “Someday, Someday, Maybe” (Ballantine), Graham’s narrator, a 26-year-old aspiring actress, finds Sardi’s menu “extravagantly expensive” and the atmosphere “intimidating.”

In real life, Graham, 46, doesn’t mention the cost of her chicken Caesar salad ($22.50) and seems at home lunching at Sardi’s. A cartoon drawing of her is on the wall, amid hundreds of other celebrity caricatures.

Graham is best known for two TV series, “Gilmore Girls” and “Parenthood,” yet it was her role in a 2009 Broadway revival of the musical “Guys and Dolls” — as Adelaide, the perennial fiancée — that earned her a place on Sardi’s walls. “One of those dreams,” she says, “and then, it happens.”

She’s here to talk about her novel, which is about the improbable dreams of making it as an actor. Graham began writing it two years ago, after finding herself “with the time and room to do something else.” She had neither during her breakout role as a hip mom in “Gilmore Girls.” “That really launched my career,” she says, “but the hours were just insane, 12, 14 hours, day after day.”

The just-renewed “Parenthood,” in which she plays a divorced mom of two who moves back in with her parents, is less demanding. “It’s more of an ensemble. I work maybe three days a week.”

Set in 1995, Graham’s novel traces a year in the life of Franny Banks, who’s funny but insecure. Graham calls it a “girly book” that will appeal more to women than men. “It’s about emotions and there’s no sports, to cite a cliché.”

Graham says her novel is only loosely based on her own career. Like her narrator, Graham waitressed in a comedy club and shared a Brooklyn apartment.

She now “lives wherever I’m working,” but has an apartment in Manhattan and a house in Los Angeles she shares with her boyfriend, actor Peter Krause, who plays her older brother in “Parenthood.”

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I’ve set up a new video channel for the site over at YouTube. It’s still a work in progress, but I’ve gotten a majority of Lauren’s talk show interviews listed, including the ones from this past week. You can watch her on Watch What Happens Live below (2 parts) and check out her Today Show and LIVE with Kelly and Michael interviews on the channel. As soon as I get some more space from my host I will add screencaps and stills from the interviews to the gallery as well.

Best roommates ever? On Watch What Happens Live Thursday, May 2, Parenthood actress Lauren Graham revealed that she and Nashville star Connie Britton used to live together — as squatters?

“We lived in an empty house that we weren’t supposed to be living in,” Graham, 46, revealed. “We had no furniture and all we ate were Rice Krispies Treats.”

During host Andy Cohen’s 60-second speed round of questions about Graham’s past roommate, she also joked that Britton, 46, would leave the dishes in the sink “forever” and would secretly borrow her shoes. But the actress wouldn’t air too much of her dirty laundry. When asked what Britton’s dirtiest habit was, Graham said, “She didn’t have any. What a breath of fresh air all the time!” How often did Britton bring guys home? “Just as often as I did,” she joked.

Graham, who was promoting her upcoming debut novel, Someday, Someday, Maybe, also discussed the possibility of a Gilmore Girls movie. “I wish that I could answer this in a more satisfying way, because I get asked it all the time. The Veronica Mars movie got this all started with the Kickstarter thing, but without knowing what the creator of the show wants to do exactly, I don’t know.”

The CW series, costarring Alexis Bledel, came to an end in 2007 after seven seasons. Was Graham happy with how it ended? Well . . .

“I feel like we did the best we could without the original creator [Amy Sherman-Palladino] of the show, but it would have been different with her,” Graham explained. Palladino left the show in 2006 over contract disputes. “It was good, but I understand why it wasn’t satisfying for people.”

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