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Love from Sweden…everyone’s favorite tropical destination! Here’s a photo fro…
Love from Sweden…everyone's favorite tropical destination!
Here's a photo from earlier today in snowy Stockholm. The photographer wanted to test just how Scandinavian I am, and whether I could handle the elements, without a coat.
I handled it.
For two and a half minutes.
So…I have no official book signing stops or events on this particular business trip, but I did want to meet as many of my readers as I could in some manner!
So I came up with this idea: Come have a drink with me at The Gold Bar, at the Nobis Hotel, tonight between 5 and 6pm.
Bring books and I'll sign them!
See you there, dressed in warm clothes,
LG
Hej Sverige! HELLO SWEDEN! I am here, in the land of my people (where I can ea…
Hej Sverige!
HELLO SWEDEN!
I am here, in the land of my people (where I can eat all the pickled herring I want, at last!)
Sorry it's taken me so long to put out information about my Scandinavian visit, but it's been unclear if I was going to Oslo or Stockholm…it appears Stockholm has won. (My apologies, Norway —- the last thing I want is stir feelings of competition or resentment between you and Sweden! Because I know THAT never happens. But this is what the publishers worked out among themselves.)
So now I am here, in Stockholm, in the frozen north.
Mostly, I am having meetings and doing interviews, but I wanted to have a chance to meet my Swedish readers, since I came all this way…so I have created a spontaneous and very casual plan!
Tomorrow night (Friday) I will be at the Gold Bar at the Nobis Hotel from 5pm till 6pm (or from 17:00 till 18:00, in your language.)
Here is the address:
If you want to come meet me and have a drink, come along! Bring books if you want me to sign them, or we can just take selfies and hang out.
If nobody shows up, no worries: I will drink alone. (Which feels very "winter in Scandinavia" to me!)
I have no idea if this will work, but I'm going for it.
Because it feels fun.
Tack sa mychet!
LIZ
Bonjour, Paris! See you February 5th! LG https://bit.ly/1gqPIUF
Bonjour, Paris!
See you February 5th!
LG
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Le 5 février prochain, Elizabeth Gilbert sera présente dans la capitale à l’Université Américaine de Paris pour présenter son dernier roman, L'Empreinte de toute chose (Calmann-Lévy). Cette rencontre exclusive organisée par les Editions Calmann-Lévy et le magazine ELLE sera une occasion de lui poser…
A friendship and a tribute…and a writer you should know! Hello all — Two nig…
A friendship and a tribute…and a writer you should know!
Hello all —
Two nights ago, I spoke at an event in NYC with the author Isabel Allende. I was introduced by my dear friend, the writer Darcey Steinke (author of such books as MILK, JESUS SAVES, and one of the best spiritual memoirs I've ever read, EASTER EVERYWHERE.)
Darcey just shared the transcript of her introduction to me on her blog, and I wanted to share it with you…it's so beautiful.
But I also want to put Darcey in context. She is the person for whom (and to whom) I wrote EAT PRAY LOVE.
Let me explain…
I think it's an incredibly important thing to write books TO someone — to someone very specific. Otherwise you are writing in a vacuum, speaking to the empty air. With each of my books, I have chosen carefully before beginning, "Who am I talking to?" The person I choose to speak to as I write defines the whole voice of my book. Because if you ain't writing to somebody, then you ain't writing to nobody…that's what I believe.
All of which is to say: EAT PRAY LOVE was a long letter of friendship and solidarity, written to my friend Darcey — a woman who, like me, was divorced, a writer, and a spiritual and emotional seeker. Without the sense of her listening on the other end, it would have been a completely different book.
So I am grateful to her, and I love her!
And you will, too. Check out her blogs and books…they are wonderful!
Heart,
LG
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I first meet Liz in the early 90’s when we were both young novelists writing for Spin Magazine. Liz wrote a number of features for Spin, but the one I loved best was about Knights at Renaissance fairs and the women, I suppose you could call them groupies, who followed them. I was impressed with how…