karaoke

  • Karaoke for a Cause

    The New York Times writes about how Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love, overcame her fear of singing in public to raise money for a nonprofit that helps orphans in Nepal. Gilbert recalls: I said to myself, “You’re not…

  • Preservation

    Preservation

    I remember my husband, when I asked once why things couldn’t be easy, the way they used to be, saying, bitterly and through clenched teeth, “It was never easy.”

  • Classic Authors’ Karaoke Jams from Readers

    Yesterday, we linked to Rob Sheffield’s Bookish post matching classic authors with karaoke songs. Our readers responded with their own picks on Twitter, and we loved them so much we collected some of our favorites on Storify. Read them below…

  • Emily Dickinson: Karaoke Queen?

    For Bookish, music writer and self-described “karaoke ho” Rob Sheffield lists which songs famous authors of the past would have belted out on karaoke night. He’s unquestionably right about Oscar Wilde crooning something from The Smiths, though it seems a…

  • Life Is Not Karaoke Booth

    In this debut novel, an American woman running from personal tragedy falls headlong into the confusions and solaces of Japanese culture.

  • Dictionaroke, and Other Sing-alongs

    Nancy Friedman writes: Dictionaraoke: A musical form in which an instrumental (karaoke) version of a song is accompanied by online dictionary-pronunciation audio files.