Eat Pray Love

Did I Just Hammer a Nail Into My Bookstore's Coffin?

Holly Robinson | Posted 03.10.2012

Holly Robinson

Who am I to think that my novel is good enough to be published? Am I now as pathetic as those street poets I used to see in Berkeley, peddling their sappy, mistake-laden chapbooks for a dollar a copy? And how the hell does a writer act as her own publicist?

Divorce On Page And Screen: 13 NY Times Bestselling Split Stories-Turned-Films

Posted 12.12.2011

From Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, "The Scarlet Letter," to Elizabeth Gilbert's more contemporary, "Eat, Pray, Love," marital turmoil, divorce,...

Addressing Climate Change: Happily Child-Free

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte | Posted 02.06.2012

Mary Ellen Harte and John Harte

Not having children is by far the single greenest action any one of us can take, although the child-free choice is not usually green-motivated.

Look Before You Leap: 3 Rs of Midlife Reinvention

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 12.07.2011

Vivian Diller, Ph.D.

Before you jump at the chance for a midlife 'do-over,' you may want to consider these three essential psychological components to determine your readiness to take on major transformations at this stage of life.

What We Lose When Travel Becomes A Highlight Reel

Christine Negroni | Posted 10.18.2011

Christine Negroni

Travel can be distilled so that it becomes all highlights, all the time—but then you lose the unspectacular details like the grit of the road you shake out of your suitcase before returning it to the attic.

WATCH: 'Eat, Pray, Love' For Guys

Posted 10.04.2011

Three guys took 18 flights to 11 countries in 44 days. They shot almost a terabyte (1024 gigabytes) of footage and boiled it down into three one-minut...

HuffPost Readers Reveal: Books They Hated That Everyone Else Loved

Posted 09.10.2011

It's okay. You can admit it. Everyone has read books that are either popular, critically acclaimed or both, but still been left pondering, "How can an...

Elizabeth Gilbert's Guru On How to Eat, Pray And Love

Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W. | Posted 08.26.2011

Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W.

Expectation narrows your options, sets you up for disappointment. So set a positive intention, a step-by-step goal, but don't expect to climb Mount Everest the first afternoon.

Best-Selling Author Elizabeth Gilbert on Mondays with Marlo

Posted 08.10.2011

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "Eat, Pray, Love" and her latest book, "Committed," joined me on Mondays With Marlo to answer your...

Elizabeth Gilbert Unhappy That 'Eat, Pray, Love' Received No Literary Accolades

csmonitor.com | Posted 07.13.2011

But that whiz-bang success also made "Eat, Pray, Love" "synonymous with something very poppy and chick lit-y," the author said in her NYPL talk, notin...

What Comes After 'Eat Pray Love'?

usatoday.com | Posted 07.12.2011

The author of Eat, Pray, Love and last year's follow-up, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage, is back to working on fiction. "I got my star...

Fearing Entrapment In Marriage, From Elizabeth Gilbert

Posted 09.14.2011

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "Eat, Pray, Love" and her newer book "Committed," replies to a question posed by a fan who has nag...

Memo To Moms: It's Eat, Pray, Sleep

Karen Brody | Posted 11.17.2011

Karen Brody

There is no formula for happiness, but what 43 years on this planet has taught me is that life is a circle. Good can turn to bad, and bad back to good -- sometimes instantaneously.

Liver Donation, Break up, Led Author David Jedeikin to Wander the Rainbow

Simona Rabinovitch | Posted 05.25.2011

Simona Rabinovitch

After donating part of his liver to his (now ex-) boyfriend, breaking up and feeling lost, David Jedeikin wrote about it all in his book, Wander the Rainbow.

What's Your Word Of The Year For 2011?

Marjorie Hope Rothstein | Posted 11.17.2011

Marjorie Hope Rothstein

I've decided that my word for 2011 is "equipoise." I have spent most of my life re-acting to circumstances, but now I am choosing to remain balanced, calm and at peace inside.

2010 Movies Only A Hangover Could Get You Through (PHOTOS)

Peter Guber | Posted 05.25.2011

Peter Guber

They're habituated to the lens of the past. It's only when their performance becomes so god awful or a challenger eats their lunch, that they find a new way. We will have to wait a bit.

How Your Citizenship Determines Your Travel

Anushay Hossain | Posted 05.25.2011

Anushay Hossain

It's one of the most unbelievable double-standards that exists today: Where you are born determines where you can travel. For the rest of your life.

Julia Roberts: Campaigns Hard For Javier Bardem Oscar Nod

Posted 05.25.2011

When it comes to Javier Bardem, Julia Roberts is eating, praying, loving... and campaigning. Entertainment Weekly reports that Roberts, an Academy ...

From Accidental Tourist to Purposeful Resident, Impromptu Moves Abroad

Shana Ting Lipton | Posted 05.25.2011

Shana Ting Lipton

If one is to believe what one reads in books and sees in films, moving abroad is often the product of one or more happy accidents -- from blissful temp-to-perm holidays to inherited properties. My own history of travel supports this theory.

For The New Year 2011

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

As we begin to ring in the New Year, we reflect on the past and think about making changes for the future. Some New Year's resolutions are big changes...

HuffPost Review: Michael Jackson's Vision, Plus A Conversation With Brazilian Sensation Bebel Gilberto

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Mike Ragogna

This 35-track, triple disc DVD collection is such an important and significant pop-culture package that it might scare your unsuspecting holiday recipient into thinking you're saying something more than merely Happy Whatever.

Eat Pray Choke On It

The DC Damsel | Posted 11.17.2011

The DC Damsel

Note to reader: I originally wrote this when "Eat Pray Love" was in the movie theaters. But I'm posting it today on what would have been my 8th weddin...

Stallone Beats Julia Roberts

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

LOS ANGELES — Sylvester Stallone has proven that he's not quite expendable yet at the box office. Stallone and his pumped-up pals lifted Lionsg...

Hot Old Celebrities: Your Teenage Crush Today

The Stir | Posted 05.25.2011

The Stir

Even in Eat Pray Love, Julia Roberts' girlish looks made it hard to buy her as a woman struggling to find meaning. She won't be playing harrowed middle-aged for at least another two decades.

Eat, Pray, Love and the Economic Crisis

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

Don McNay

Liz Gilbert said of Italy, "In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, only artistic excellence is incorruptible." I have pondered her insight for weeks. I keep asking myself the essential question. Is the US headed the way of Italy?