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You may know her as a Grammy winning pop star, best at baiting hooks that keep Barbie in a trance. But these days you\u2019re just as likely to know Dua Lipa for her second job: bookfluencer.<\/p>\n
The British impresario founded Service95<\/a>, a \u201ccultural concierge service,\u201d back in 2023. The service has since blossomed into a hydra of interactive literary content. To date, the Lipa literary empire includes a newsletter, a book club, and a podcast. The latter is hosted by the singer herself.<\/p>\n The service\u2019s main pull is its Monthly Reads feature, starring titles also hand-picked by the hit-maker. On the website, an anonymous support team doles out round-ups<\/a> and aggregates interview highlights<\/a>, to fill out the content garden.<\/p>\n And judging from her recommendations, Lipa\u2019s literary taste tends expansive<\/a>\u2014globally, and genre-wise. Via her many online tributaries, she has made a habit of balancing emerging authors with old hats. A case in point: Lipa once told GQ<\/a> that she tries to \u201cread a George Saunders book every year.\u201d But on her Instagram, Fitzcarraldo Editions proliferate<\/a>.<\/p>\n With her Monthly Reads selections, Lipa does a similar swing dance. She often favors off-the-beaten-path prose, shining light on works in translation, story collections, small press books, and plays<\/a>. This month\u2019s pick, for instance, is Jez Butterworth\u2019s Jerusalem<\/a>. A tragicomic drama following an ex-daredevil turned surrogate father<\/a> who\u2019s forever holding court in the Wiltshire woods.<\/p>\n All this\u2014with all due respect to Reese\u2014is pretty unusual stuff from a celebrity book club.\u00a0And this week, word came down that the Lipa empire will surprise us yet again.<\/p>\n Lipa has been tapped to steer one of London\u2019s largest literary festivals<\/a>. This October, she will help program the Southbank Centre\u2019s London Literature Festival, which celebrates its 19th birthday this year.<\/p>\n With help from Service95, Lipa will \u201ccurate a series of events across the festival\u2019s opening weekend\u2026as well as further literary events across the festival.\u201d All TBA. According to Russh<\/a>, previous curators include heavies like Ai Weiwei, Greta Thunberg, Malala Yousafzai, Margaret Atwood, Philip Pullman, and Tom Hanks.<\/p>\n Whither this dynamic love of letters, and book-club-shaped events? As Lipa told the festival architects<\/a>, \u201c\u2018reading has anchored me through every chapter of my life\u2014from being the new kid at school in a new country to finding quiet refuge on tour.\u201d<\/p>\n