The Date Escape

No matter how bitter we become after divorce and heartbreak, we keep coupling. Author Elizabeth Gilbert went from stubbornly single globetrotting queen of anti-matrimony in her bestseller Eat, Pray, Love to the lady with a gold ring on her finger in her most recent work Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace...

By Lilia Menconi

February 4, 2010

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No matter how bitter we become after divorce and heartbreak, we keep coupling. Author Elizabeth Gilbert went from stubbornly single globetrotting queen of anti-matrimony in her bestseller Eat, Pray, Love to the lady with a gold ring on her finger in her most recent work Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage.

Gilbert will be on-hand to discuss and sign the follow-up to her smash hit. “It's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me,” says Gilbert at the 2009 TED conference. “That’s the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning.”

Put the bottle down, Liz. Committed just hit number one on the New York Times’ bestseller list.

Fri., Feb. 5, 6:30 p.m., 2010

Lilia Menconi

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