15 min

S2E10: There She Goes: Lavinia Spalding, How Korean Noraebang Changed My Life There She Goes

    • Places & Travel

This week we travel with our own co-host Lavinia Spalding to Busan, South Korea, where, after being told her whole life she can’t sing, she finally finds her voice.


Lavinia is an award-winning author and editor who has published ten books. She’s the author of Writing Away, six-time series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, and co-author of With a Measure of Grace, This Immeasurable Place, and the 2022 Frommer’s EasyGuide to New Orleans. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times’ Modern Love column, AFAR, Tin House, Longreads, Yoga Journal, Sunset, AirBnB magazine, Off Assignment, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, and many more national and international publications. Her work has won gold Lowell Thomas and SOLAS travel writing awards, has been widely anthologized.


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This week we travel with our own co-host Lavinia Spalding to Busan, South Korea, where, after being told her whole life she can’t sing, she finally finds her voice.


Lavinia is an award-winning author and editor who has published ten books. She’s the author of Writing Away, six-time series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, and co-author of With a Measure of Grace, This Immeasurable Place, and the 2022 Frommer’s EasyGuide to New Orleans. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times’ Modern Love column, AFAR, Tin House, Longreads, Yoga Journal, Sunset, AirBnB magazine, Off Assignment, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, and many more national and international publications. Her work has won gold Lowell Thomas and SOLAS travel writing awards, has been widely anthologized.


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15 min