![]() ![]() ![]() Gilbert’s upcoming novel, The Snow Forest, was set in 1930s Siberia - which as we all know is part of Russia, which as we all know is the headquarters of Vladimir Putin’s ongoing and execrable war against Ukraine. Now, she’s the unwitting harbinger of what appears to be a massive vibe shift within the literary community, and perhaps in the culture at large. Until this week, Elizabeth Gilbert was best known as the author of Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir about finding her bliss (and her appetite) in a post-divorce odyssey through Italy, India, and Bali. “And I want to say that I have heard these messages and I have read these messages and I respect them… It is not the time for this book to be published.” “Over the course of this weekend, I have received an enormous massive outpouring of reactions and responses from my Ukrainian readers, expressing anger, sorrow, disappointment, and pain about the fact that I would choose to release a book into the world right now… that is set in Russia,” she says. Gilbert leans into the camera, her blonde hair tumbling around her face, a pair of comically oversized orange glasses perched high on her nose. Elizabeth Gilbert’s self-cancellation video is, among other things, an ambitious exercise in genre-mixing: the whispering, intimate tone of a TikTok confessional, the stark lighting of a hostage video, and the camera angle of your boomer parents FaceTiming from an iPad that’s perched on the coffee table. ![]()
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