Elizabeth Gilbert, Gillian Jacobs and Fred Armisen

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2013

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Elizabeth Gilbert's new novel traces the life of a woman living in the 19th century as a botanist. Jesse will ask Elizabeth about what the reaction to 'Eat, Pray, Love' has meant to her — both the good and the not-so-good. Then Jesse sits down with Gillian Jacobs. She plays Britta on the NBC sitcom Community. Plus, Portlandia's Fred Armisen talks about the album he wishes HE had made; our film critic buddies at The Dissolve pick out a couple of films you'll want to watch ASAP, and Jesse tells you why a perfect balance between the real and unreal makes one particular video game so enticing.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Lee from Dublin, Ireland.
0:01.8	I'm Nick Showtime Ballotta from Rhode Island.
0:03.8	I'm Blake from Oakland, California.
0:05.6	Both I would Jesse Thorn has produced independently
0:07.9	and supported by listeners like you and me.
0:09.7	You should support the show like I did.
0:11.2	This visit maximumfund.org-donate.
0:14.8	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:16.2	Eat Pray Love made Elizabeth Gilbert famous.
0:20.0	Way, way more famous than she ever expected.
0:23.1	It was a memoir about personal transformation
0:25.6	and romance and globe trotting and spirituality,
0:28.7	basically, book buyer catnip.
0:31.2	Her new book's a novel, and the subject matter
0:34.6	is a little different.
0:36.3	It's about a woman in the 19th century
0:40.7	who, well, basically she studies moss.
0:46.5	Is there any successful plant fiction?
0:48.9	It's not a genre.
0:49.9	I'll tell you my favorite story about this
0:55.3	is that when I was doing research on this book,
0:57.2	which I did for three years, I did a lot of traveling
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