You may be aware that Elizabeth Gilbert has a new memoir out this week, All the Way to the River . Oprah Winfrey even announced it was her book club’s new pick . Like many Americans, I’ve been following Gilbert’s career since 1997, when she released her GQ article about working at Coyote Ugly that was later adapted into the movie of the same name. I’ve read all of Gilbert’s memoirs and novels. As a memoirist, I find it impossible not to have opinions about her work; whether or not you liked Eat, Pray, Love , you have to admit that its style set the tone for much of the first-person writing — by white women, sure, but also by everyone else — published in the decades that followed. Gilbert is currently using her prominent voice to do something markedly different from everything s

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