DUA LIPA’S SERVICE95 BOOK CLUB ANNOUNCES DETAILS ON OCTOBER’S MONTHLY READ: LINCOLN IN THE BARDO BY GEORGE SAUNDERS
Dua Lipa’s Service95 Book Club reveals details about October’s Monthly Read: Lincoln In The Bardo by George Saunders. The Service95 Book Club will offer exclusive content from Dua and George throughout the month on service95.com and across socials.
“I loved this unique, bold and compassionate book,” Dua shares. “At its heart, this is a story of one of the most famous men in history – President Abraham Lincoln – grieving for his dead son Willie, whose death foreshadows the hundreds of thousands of lives that are about to be lost in the American Civil War.”
Dua adds, “The action takes place over just 24 hours and is narrated by a cacophony of monologuing, bickering ghosts in a graveyard. Yes, you read that right, and yes, it does take a while to settle into this unusual style. But stick with it and your mind will be well and truly blown – there is no one writing today who can match George Saunders for compassion and empathy. The very last page still replays in my mind. The voices of these spirits – the wretched and the brave, and the dead boy Willie Lincoln – will stay with me forever.”
This month’s content includes an interview between Dua and George, where the two discuss the seed of the idea for the book and the parallel stories of both personal grief and a nation’s grief during the American Civil War. Dua and George also connect over their creative processes and perform a reading of the book together.
To accompany the interview, George penned an exclusive essay giving an inside look into his writing process of Lincoln In The Bardo, as well as his recommended reading list and writing soundtrack. Readers can also check out a thought-provoking context piece, which provides further insight, research, and history about Abraham Lincoln and his involvement in The Civil War. Finally, the book club has offered a list of 10 essential questions to help readers delve into their own interpretations of the novel, and later this month, the book club will release an exclusive video from George sharing tips on how to read Lincoln In The Bardo for those who might be intimidated to start it.
Dua’s Service95 Book Club is the latest offering from her Service95 platform, which consists of the At Your Service podcast and the flagship Service95 newsletter. Service95 has been praised by The Guardian as “some of the most thought-provoking short-form cultural writing you can find,” and the podcast has been lauded by The Sunday Times, Vogue and Vulture. In addition, Spotify named it one of the Best Podcasts of 2022, and praised Dua as “an incredibly thoughtful interviewer with a genuine interest in people, social movements, and the arts.”
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