Elizabeth Gilbert returning with 'Big Magic'

Jocelyn McClurg | USA TODAY









Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert hopes to bring her magic touch back to the best-seller list with a new fall book called Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear.

Big Magic will be released on Sept. 22, publisher Riverhead said Monday.

The new book grew out of stories Gilbert has heard from thousands of readers who struggle to "feel authentic and inspired," who are stuck "in their jobs, relationships, and above all, within themselves," according to Riverhead.

In Big Magic, she probes the nature of creativity and "invites readers to embrace curiosity and to let go of needless suffering."

Gilbert has earned her guru credentials. Her self-help book Eat, Pray, Love was a No. 1 USA TODAY best seller and became a movie starring Julia Roberts as the author.

Gilbert also writes fiction; her 2013 historical novel, The Signature of All Things, about a female botanist, reached No. 19 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list.