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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · 20d

I just found out that ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER is an instant New York Times bestseller. Thank you, from the very bottom of my heart, from the very bottom of my soul. Sharing Rayya with you has been the greatest honor of my life.

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · 29d

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · 29d

OH MY LORD!! Surprise! All the Way to the River is Oprah's September Book Club pick! I had such a wonderful time talking to the iconic pairing of Gayle King and Oprah this morning. At this moment, with this generous gift, I feel that the book has officially launched. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Sep 2

Every word, every sentence, every page is for all of us. Let’s go ❤️

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Sep 2

Suddenly it’s just one week until All the Way to the River hits shelves. I wrote this book for me, in memory of Rayya -- but also for all of us who have ever felt lost in love, lost in addiction, who realize one day that we no longer recognize ourselves, that we're wearing someone else's life.

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Aug 11

In just a little under a month All the Way to the River will be released into the big, wide world. And with it, so many pieces of my heart, my soul, my Rayya will be in your hands. I can’t wait for you to hold this story with us 🙏🏻

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Jun 24

New dates added!

You can find all ticket info at elizabethgilbert.com/tour and at the Linktree in my bio. ♥️ LG

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Jun 10

Who is your “all the way to the river” person?

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · May 8

I’m going on tour! Once my new book ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER is released in September I’ll be doing events across the country and I’m hoping you’ll join me!

For information & tickets, you can visit my website at elizabethgilbert.com/tour, or click the link in my bio.

See you soooon, dear ones! ♥️LG

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Apr 16

ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER is my new memoir and it tells the whole story, to the very best of my capacity. I think Rayya would have liked it. She really, really liked being intimate, honest, difficult, and important! Happy birthday, baby. You are still a wild ride.

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Apr 16

It took me seven years after her death to finally be able to tell our story — not least of all because it took me that long to even understand all that happened between us over the course of our long peaceful friendship and our short and riotous romance.

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Apr 16

I would tell you to rest in peace, but I know that you always found peace boring. May you rest in excitement.”

Rayya was . . . A LOT. Full of contradictions, powerful, giving, loving, demanding, and (even to this day) difficult for me to fully explain or comprehend.

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Apr 16

“She was my love, my heart, my best friend, my rebel, my angel, my protector, my challenger, my partner, my muse, my wizard, my surprise, my comet, my liberator, my rock star, my absolutely impossible non-cooperator, my otherworldly spiritual visitor, and my baby. I loved you so much, Rayya.

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Apr 16

Today would have been (still is? always will be? how does time even work?) Rayya’s birthday. On the day she died, back in 2018, I wrote this about her on social media:

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Apr 11

“When serenity is either unavailable or unattainable, only drama and boredom will ever be on the menu.”
From ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER
elizabethgilbert.com
❤️LG

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Apr 9

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Apr 4

Hello, Vancouver! I am popping in to let you know that I'll be teaching a weekend-long creativity workshop on May 24-25 in your beautiful city. You can find all the details at the link in my bio, and I hope to see you there!

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Feb 21

and join us on March 4th.

You can learn more about the Onward Book Club, browse OBC selections at our partner bookshop, Elizabeth's Bookshop & Writing Centre, and find my Instagram handle by clicking on the link in my bio!

#tararoberts
#writteninthewaters
#onwardbookclub

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Feb 21

diver studying shipwrecks resulting from the transatlantic slave trade, what she learned about herself during her years of underwater exploration -- and what it's like to be "Explorer in Residence” at the National Geographic Society There is still time to get your hands on this extraordinary book,

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Feb 21

NEW DATE: Our next Onward Book Club meeting has been changed to Tuesday, March 4th at 7 pm ET on Instagram live.

I'll have the honor of talking with Tara Roberts, author of WRITTEN IN THE WATERS: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging about this spectacular debut. And we'll discuss her work as a

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Feb 18

Most of all — thank you to everybody who made the time to show up for the workshop, and for all the events! Thank you for your generous hearts and open minds. YOU ARE THE BEST!

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Feb 18

Home at last after a wonderful tour through Australia and New Zealand! Thank you for blue skies and great coffee, for wallabies and parakeets, for stunning beaches and soaring mountains. Thank you for brilliant cities, old friends, new adventures, and the best apricot marmalade I’ve ever had.

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Feb 6

Thank you, Helen!

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Jan 29

To check out the Letters From Love project and to join over 160,000 of us tapping into the spirit of unconditional love in order to quiet our inner critics and find revolutionary self-acceptance and compassion, find the link in my bio or head to elizabethgilbert.substack.com

♥️LG

Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert | Substack

This is heart work. Click to read Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

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Elizabeth Gilbert @lizgilbert.bsky.social · Jan 29

Thank you, Emily McDowell, the multitalented artist and my friend, for joining us this week over on Substack and for this essential reminder. Let us always strive to return ourselves to our original factory settings!

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