 Her 1997 "GQ" article, "The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon", a memoir of Gilbert's time as a bartender at the very first Coyote Ugly table dancing bar located in the East Village section of New York City, was the basis for the feature film "Coyote Ugly" (2000).She adapted her 1998 "GQ" article, "The Last American Man", into a biography of the modern woodsman and naturalist Eustace Conway in "The Last American Man".