Name: Author event with Elizabeth Gilbert
Start: 2025-09-17T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-17T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Langford Auditorium

Parnassus Books and Vanderbilt University are pleased to present Elizabeth Gilbert, for her new book, ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER.
About this Event

Parnassus Books and Vanderbilt University are thrilled to present an evening with Elizabeth Gilbert, in conversation with Ann Patchett, to celebrate Gilbert's new book, All The Way To The River.

This is a ticketed event and will take place at 6:30 p.m. CT, in Langford Auditorium on the Vanderbilt Campus on Wednesday, September 17th.

Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.

Ticketing:

You must have a ticket to attend this event.

Each ticket is $38.50 and includes one general admission seat and a signed copy of All the Way To The River.

Please note, there will NOT be a signing line for personalizations following this event.

Parking:

About the book:

In her first nonfiction book in a decade, the #1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free.

In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. They were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.

What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?

All the Way to the River is a landmark memoir that will resonate with anyone who has ever been captive to love--or to any other passion, substance, or craving - and who yearns, at long last, for liberation.

About the author:

Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and several other internationally bestselling books, including the novels City of Girls and The Signature of All Things. She has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award.