Women Without Children Are Selfish And Bitter. Or Not.
Oh please. Thank heavens for women without kids. Not only are they the ideal people to sit next to on planes but they also make excellent Sparents.
Eat, Pray, Love Trailer: Maybe Magical, Maybe Just Annoying
Whether you loved or hated Eat, Pray Love the book, the trailer for the Julia Roberts movie raises the question of whether the book's charms can translate on film, or whether this just is a pretty person in pretty places.
In Praise Of Aunts
Blogger Margaret Magowan has a somewhat unusual defense of childless women: they make great aunts.
The Kids Are All Right
"Just don't fault my generation for a lack of trying. Fault Ms. Gilbert, Ms. Gottlieb and their ilk-those who project their own neuroses on to the rest of us." — Hannah Seligson, on Committed, Marry Him, and dating today [WSJ]
Our Generation Has Not Done The Reading
Today, in a conversation on love and marriage, Bonnie Hunt talked with the stat-spouting memoirist Elizabeth Gilbert, the wisecracking Jane Kaczmarek and, representing all women under 30, Kristin Cavalleri. Kristin, as is obvious in this clip, had not read Committed.
Elizabeth Gilbert Has A Really Nice Couch
...at least, if the couch on which she's reclining in this Time photo is hers! And then there's that review:
Committed: In Which Elizabeth Gilbert Wrestles With More First-World Problems In The Third World
How, you wondered, could an author follow the smash finding-herself chartbuster Eat, Pray Love? Here's your answer: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage.
Feminists Don't Hate Marriage: In Defense Of Elizabeth Gilbert
In a short but nasty Wall Street Journal editorial, Charlotte Hays opines that Eat Pray Love writer Elizabeth Gilbert has deserted her feminist readers by getting married — thus revealing that the feminist = man-hater canard will basically never die.
Will Elizabeth Gilbert's Second Memoir Be Less Annoying Than Her First?
Elizabeth Gilbert's follow-up to Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir called Committed, will come out in January, and according to Motoko Rich in the Times, Gilbert "knows that some knives may be out for her" as she promotes the new book.
Eat, Pray, Love Author's Husband Talks Back
In his rebuttal to ex-wife Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, Michael Cooper will discuss his post-divorce journey "through the Middle East and other developing countries." If only everyone had the money to heal breakup pain by traveling the world! [GalleyCat]
Could Elizabeth Gilbert Actually Have Decent Advice?
Elizabeth Gilbert can often come off as self-absorbed and obnoxious, but in this interview the Eat, Pray, Love author actually offers some useful and comforting advice on making decisions.
Genius Is Like "Mystical Fairy Juice," Says Eat, Pray, Love Author
Do society's expectations destroy geniuses? So says the ubiquitous Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love (which we promise not to bash at all in this post).
Eat, Pray, Film
Columbia Pictures is about to pick up the movie rights to Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love. And Julia Roberts is set to star. It'll be like Erin Brockovich Goes To Bali! [Reuters]
Six Words. Lame Fad. Enough Already.
Is anybody else sick of the six-word phenomenon? Apparently the editors of Smith Magazine aren't, because they're now releasing an anthology of six-word love stories.
Eat, Pray, Love Author Talks To Guardian, Engages Gag Reflex
Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert recently gave the Guardian the kind of interview that is a lesson in the dangers of, well, interviews... coming off as entitled, ditsy, and bizarrely lacking in self-awareness.
Women Rule At The Time 100 Party
Last night in New York, Time magazine hosted a reception honoring its self-selected 100 Most Influential people of the year and, I have to say, the women in attendance were a cool bunch: Arianna Huffington, Martha Stewart, Angelica Huston, Wendy Kopp, Tina Fey, Madeeha Hasan Odhaib, Elizabeth Gilbert, and others. And…
Self Editor Follows Eat, Pray, Love Around The World — And Hates It!
This is Holly Corbett, photographed here for yesterday's Page Six Magazine. She read the book Eat, Pray Love — and it ruined her life! After Elizabeth Gilbert's bestseller about soothing her malaise in Italy, Indonesia and India inspired Holly to take a year off, she bought a round-the-world ticket — and came back to…
Did 'Eat, Pray, Love' Sell Millions Because Elizabeth Gilbert Cheated On Her Husband?
Today's WSJ has a story that explains in painstaking detail how Eat, Pray, Love became the most popular book we ever hated ourselves for loving, despite so-so hardcover sales. In the event you haven't read it, it's a memoir of a person who gets very rich when Disney buys her personal essay as the basis for the movie …
You Will Hate Elizabeth Gilbert For Making You Love 'Eat, Pray, Love'
Eat, Pray, Love is the best book you'll ever feel embarrassed buying, or embarrassed liking, or vaguely annoyed you were once manipulated into identifying with, which is how I felt after talking to my friend Stephanie about it. Why's it the number one bestselling nonfiction title in the country right now? Because most…
