Blog Posts by GQ Magazine

Now that nearly every woman in America has had a chance to read, discuss and form strong, intractable, possibly friendship-threatening opinions about Elizabeth Gilbert's post-divorce memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, what does she have to say to them? Don't get married! Okay, so it's somewhat more nuanced than that, but her new book Committed does take a critical, even forbidding stance on marriage, at least the white dress, you-complete-me kind of romance people often embark on here in 21st Century America. Her cold-eyed re-examination of the institution is prompted by her decision to give marriage another try. Since Liz once occupied GQ regularly (and occasionally still does) we were able to get her to pick up her phone to talk about her new book and the burden of her old one.

GQ: If I were a young woman who had, for example, been presented with a big Emerald cut diamond engagement ring from the man of my dreams, and I was reading this book, I'd think that you come across as something of a