Elizabeth Gilbert, polite botany, and Sex In Your Garden

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Greta Johnsen

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2014

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Author Elizabeth Gilbert talks about corgis, fairies, and her latest book about a lady botanist in the 1800s. Then plant expert Angela Overy describes what makes our gardens inherently illicit. And your nerd confessions. http://nerdettepodcast.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The secret garden is always open now.
0:07.0	If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
0:16.0	I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Trisha Bobita.
0:21.5	And from W. Be Easy in Chicago.
0:23.4	This is NERD.
0:24.8	This week, author Elizabeth Gilbert on why she went back in time and into the dirt for her latest novel about a polite botanist.
0:31.2	There's nothing that could make me possibly happier than to have to spend three years in various libraries all over the world trying to put together this story.
0:38.7	And then we'll talk to a plant expert who knows there's no such thing as polite botany.
0:42.9	My name is Angela Overy, and I am the author of Sex in Your Garden.
0:48.8	All that plus a scatological nerd confession on this week's NerdX.
0:55.1	I'm Greta Johnson. And I'm Tricia Bobita.
0:58.1	Elizabeth Gilbert is probably best known for her memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, but she's also
1:02.3	written several novels. And she's responsible for the movie Coyote Ugly, which I love.
1:08.4	No, I really, I'm not kidding. I love that movie.
1:12.1	Really?
1:12.8	Yes.
1:14.5	She's also done a couple of TED Talks, both about navigating the world as a creative
1:18.4	thinker.
1:19.2	Eat Pray Love sold more than 10 million copies and became a giant movie.
1:23.3	So what comes next for a writer after that kind of success?
1:26.1	Other things like corgis.
1:28.4	And fairies.
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