Local Mail-Order Bride Makes Good on 'Oprah'
Did we not tell/warn you that New York-based Ukrainian mail-order bride Lera Loeb would conquer all media? Yesterday, she and her husband were on 'Oprah' to talk about their weird marriage.
Meet Elizabeth Gilbert, Unrecognized Public Intellectual
Elizabeth Gilbert, who—SPOILER ALERT!—married the guy she met at the end of Eat, Pray, Love, just published a new book about said marriage. But all she really wants is to be taken seriously as a smart person.
Hey Ladies! Now You Can Be Even More Jealous of Eat, Pray, Love
Today it's mostly just casting casting casting, as TV stars make movie moves and movie actors flee to TV. And Elizabeth Gilbert, I mean Julia Roberts, lands the Spaniard of her dreams.
Elizabeth Gilbert And John Hodgman Lend Their Star Power To Housing Works
At the doorway of Housing Works bookstore last night around 7 p.m., an older gentleman was being gently shooed back onto the street by one of the store's volunteer staffers. "I'm sorry, sir, we're usually open at this time, but this is sort of our biggest event of the year?" she said, gesturing with her head to the…
An article about Elizabeth Gilbert's bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, which we like to think of as Self-Aggrandize, Whine, Repeatedly Thank Guru, hints at the idea that the book industry is silly to ever publish anything in hardcover and also contains this quote from Elizabeth, about how she felt after the book's…
To-Do List
1. Hear The Last American Man author Elizabeth Gilbert talk to novelist Darcy Steinke at the New School.
2. Attend the EXTRA exhibition at the Swiss Institute.
3. Hear Daniel Lanois at Joe's Pub.
