Elizabeth Gilbert: All the Way to the River

Schedule

Tue Sep 09 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Great Hall at Cooper Union | New York, NY

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Join us for a launch event with #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert, discussing her new memoir All the Way to the River.
About this Event

Join us for a launch event with #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert, discussing her new memoir All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation. This event will be hosted in The Great Hall located in the Foundation Building at Cooper Union at 7 East 7th Street between Third & Fourth Avenue.


ACCESSIBILITY:

  • Wheelchair Accessible
  • Assisted listening devices are also available upon request.

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In her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.

What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?

All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love—or to any other passion, substance, or craving – and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.


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Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels City of Girls, The Signature of All Things, and Stern Men; the story collection Pilgrims; and the nonfiction books Big Magic, Eat Pray Love, Committed, and The Last American Man. A finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award, Gilbert began her career as a journalist.

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The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, United States

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