Hi and welcome to my first ever episode of Control-Alt Delete, my new podcast where I get to interview

really amazing people about the internet and social media and feminism and all sorts of different things. My book comes out in July with Penguin Random House

called Control-Alt Delete how I grew up online and of course that tells my story of

growing up on the internet but I'm going to use this podcast as an excuse

to ask other people about their experiences online too so I'm very excited to

introduce my first guest who is one of my favorite ever authors. I'm thrilled to say

that Liz Gilbert is on the podcast as my first guest which is so exciting. She is obviously

for those of you who don't know and are living under a rock, the

best-selling author of Eat Pray Love, which spent 199 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Riverhead Books, the publisher of Eat Pray Love,

also has a book coming out this year called Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It, which is an amazing book of

life journeys and essays from people who are really touched by that book and whose lives changed when they read it.

She is also the author of Signature of All Things, an incredible novel and also Big Magic, which is one of my favorite reads of last year. I keep picking it up from the

bookshelf and re-reading bits. It really inspired me in lots of ways. So I'm going to

stop waffling on now and let you listen to the interview.

Hello. Hi, how are you?

I'm good.

How are you?

I'm well, thank you. Oh Liz Liz thank you so much I know you're very busy that's all right it's a pleasure I'm looking forward to it I'm

super curious about what you're what you're up to. How was things? I saw on Instagram that you had you've been in Australia?

Yes, Australia and New Zealand and we took this all side trip to Tasmania, which I know is technically Australia, except that it doesn't feel like it is at all.

We had an amazing trip. It was fantastic. My grandkids kicked my ass

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