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The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr
“which is a book I absolutely adore”
“I've read the art of memoir by Mary Karr which is a book I absolutely adore which I think touches on that also quite a lot”— Tim Ferriss
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Breaking Bad
Vince Gilligan (inferred)
“I also stood up and applauded at that”
“I'm thinking of the ending of Breaking Bad... I also stood up and applauded at that because it felt both surprising and inevitable”— Elizabeth Gilbert
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East Coker (Four Quartets)
T.S. Eliot
“that has gotten me through some of the darkest times in my life”
“a poem by TS Eliot called East Coker that has gotten me through some of the darkest times in my life”— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Song of Myself (Leaves of Grass)
Walt Whitman
“another poet who gets me”
“another poet who gets me is is Walt Whitman and what women saying describing himself in a song of myself”— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Wolf Hall trilogy
Hilary Mantel
“I'm so in love with Hilary mantel”
“I'm so in love with Hilary mantel who wrote the wolf halls trilogy about Henry the eighth and won the Booker Prize for the first two installments”— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Little, Big
John Crowley
“this fantastic... I don't know how this guy does this at all”
“I'm in the middle of little big by John Crowley which is this fantastic goal I suppose surreal yet realistic tale of fairies”— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
“they're so beautiful and they're so immediate”
“his meditations are what survives of his journals and they're so beautiful and they're so immediate”— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Diana, Herself
Martha Beck
“this is so dazzling”
“she wrote a book called Diana herself that landed on my desk and I read it and I was like this is so dazzling”— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
“I can't overstate what you can get out of out of doing the artists way”
“I can't overstate what you can get out of doing the artists way... Eat Pray Love would not exist without the artists way”— Elizabeth Gilbert
The guest's own work
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Big Magic
Elizabeth Gilbert
“Elizabeth Gilbert is the number one New York Times bestselling author of big magic and Eat Pray Love as well as several other internationally best-selling books”— Tim Ferriss
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Eat Pray Love
Elizabeth Gilbert
“Elizabeth Gilbert is the number one New York Times bestselling author of big magic and Eat Pray Love as well as several other internationally best-selling books”— Tim Ferriss
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City of Girls
Elizabeth Gilbert
“her new book city of girls is a novel set in the New York City theatre world of the 1940s and it hits all sorts of fantastic fun tantalizing stuff”— Tim Ferriss
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The 4-Hour Body
Tim Ferriss
“I recommended it way back in 2010 in the 4-hour body and I did not get paid to do so I've been using it since before that”— Tim Ferriss
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The Artist's Way Morning Pages Journal
Julia Cameron
“the artists way morning pages journal which is a companion volume... and I've been using it I've got dusted it off”— Tim Ferriss
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy (inferred)
“that is the message that those stories convey I mean that's Anna Karenina and it's Madame Bovary and it's Hedda Gabler”— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert (inferred)
“that's Anna Karenina and it's Madame Bovary and it's Hedda Gabler and it's Daisy Miller”— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen (inferred)
“that's Anna Karenina and it's Madame Bovary and it's Hedda Gabler and it's Daisy Miller”— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Daisy Miller
Henry James (inferred)
“and it's Hedda Gabler and it's Daisy Miller and you know all of those novels written by men”— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Coyote Ugly
Touchstone Pictures (inferred)
“an article she wrote in GQ about her experiences bartending became the basis for the movie coyote ugly”— Tim Ferriss
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