Eat, Pray, Cringe: Elizabeth Gilbert Cancels Herself
Elizabeth Gilbert. (Marla Aufmuth via Getty Images)
The author sacrifices her new novel because it’s set in Russia. What’s next? Russian hats? Russian dressing? The breed of cat known as a Russian Blue?
It’s hard to quite capture the irony of Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert cancelling her novel about Russians living under. . . Stalinism.
Gilbert claims to have done this in order to placate Ukrainians upset that her new book, The Snow Forest, is set in Siberia, but her self-cancellation is reminiscent of all those who kowtowed to The Orthodoxy …
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