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Join NOW!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 allowed to [be afraid] anymore. You spend your life telling people they have to take […]
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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.”
...moreYesterday, 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 the jump!
...moreFor 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 missed opportunity not to have given James Joyce “Baby Got Back.” Which tunes do you […]
...moreIn this debut novel, an American woman running from personal tragedy falls headlong into the confusions and solaces of Japanese culture.
...moreNancy Friedman writes: Dictionaraoke: A musical form in which an instrumental (karaoke) version of a song is accompanied by online dictionary-pronunciation audio files.
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