The Book Club Interview: George Saunders Talks To Dua Lipa About Lincoln In The Bardo

For the Service95 Book Club, Dua Lipa interviews George Saunders, author of her Monthly Read for October, Lincoln In The Bardo. The book is a moving and experimental story featuring Abraham Lincoln and an unforgettable cast of monologuing ghosts that portrays a father mourning his son and a son longing for his father. In the video, the two discuss the seed of the idea for the book, the parallel stories of personal loss and a nation’s grief during the American Civil War – along with sharing their creative processes and performing a reading of the book together.

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