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Is Dua Lipa the best literary interviewer?


The Houdini singer’s online book club is already a hit. Now her interviews with Pulitzer prize-winning authors are gaining new fans

Lorraine Kelly and Angela Rippon are a bit better at probing questions, but their segments are so short that there’s barely time to hit more than the key points, let alone get into a meandering discussion about destiny, empathy or marriage equality under rightwing governments. Podcasts and book festivals are, of course, much better – and possibly a fairer comparison, but as Lefray notes, they are a lot less consistent than Lipa: occasionally awkward, sometimes excruciating, and far too fond of using the qualifier “sort of”. She was posting recommendations on Instagram long before Service95, and her own bookshelf, tantalisingly visible in most of her interviews, is stuffed with an impressively esoteric mix of books, from Katy Hessel’s The Story of Art Without Men to Joe Coscarelli’s Rap Capital.

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