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OH GOD…here's one from the vaults!
A friend of this page just dug up these very incriminating photos and sent them along…
More than a decade ago, when I was still a staff writer for GQ magazine, I wrote a story about the week I spent disguised as a man, wandering around the streets of NYC, trying to see how the other 50.2% live.
My guy name was "Luke Gilbert"…and there I am (in a haircut that my friend Rayya gave me, and in a photo by the great Mary Ellen Mark.)
It was a rather interesting week, needless to say. I didn't love being a man (I felt emotionally and physically locked up in my fake maleness) but I did love the experience, and I LOVED when the guy at the Air Force recruiting station in the center of Times Square told me to enlist so I could become a fighter pilot "punch some holes in the sky, dude!"
Sadly, I can't find the actual article anywhere online, but I can tell you that during that entire week I did sport, in my pants, a condom stuffed with birdseed, in order to give me the appropriate…er…HEFT.
Also, I braved the men's room at Shea Stadium during a ball game, and never got caught.
Ah, youth….
Lots of love,
Luke/Liz
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A sweet story — SOAT saves the baby mosses!
My friend Lindsay sent me this photo, which her mother in Virginia sent to her the other day. Apparently, Lindsay's mom had recently hired a landscaper to come "tear out all that moss" in her backyard and replace it with lawn…but after reading "The Signature of All Things", she was unable to do it, having now fallen in love with the idea that moss beds are tiny, magnificent forests of their own.
So the gorgeous moss was saved, and the book had its portrait taken in the lush green natural carpet, as a tribute.
Hooray, Lindsay's mom!
Alma would be so pleased…
🙂
LG
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SOAT in a greenhouse — this novel's natural habitat!
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I'm reading your wonderful book in my greenhouse and sharing it long distance with my beloved niece Callie Elizabeth Butler as the first selection of our newly formed book club. Thank you Elizabeth from Tennessee and Virginia!
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SOAT in the moss! 🙂
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That delicious feeling of loving a book so much that you're afraid it's going to end, and then seeing on the Kindle that you're only 46% of the way through . . . yes, that! Then I found moss in my backyard. If only the natives hadn't run off with my microscope 😉 Thank you @[227291194019670:274:Elizabeth Gilbert] for a riveting, warm, sublime novel. I especially love the tone – your tone – whether gently teasing your characters or casting a playfully irreverent eye over the customs and values of the time. Wonderful stuff! Well done gorgeous xx
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SOAT on an iPhone! (Alma would certainly marvel at this!)
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SOAT mobile. My first time reading a book on iPhone. 🙂
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