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    Books Are In The Air:” From Installations To Events, Paris Is Having A Literaissance
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    “Books Are In The Air:” From Installations To Events, Paris Is Having A Literaissance 

    April 18, 2024 | By Divya Bala 
    Hay Festival
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    Join Us At Hay Festival  

    April 17, 2024 | By Jamie Styles
    Lucy Ellis
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    How To Host Your Own Book Club  

    April 17, 2024
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    South Korean Chef Songsoo Kim’s Leek & Daikon Jeon Pancake

    April 17, 2024
    Why Salman Rushdie Is Still One Of Literature’s Most Important Figures  
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    Why Salman Rushdie Is Still One Of Literature’s Most Important Figures  

    April 17, 2024 | By Simon Coates
    Billie Holiday - ‘I Love Rock ’N’ Roll’: Women And The Music Memoir
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    ‘I Love Rock ’N’ Roll’: Women And The Music Memoir

    April 17, 2024 | By Tiffany Murray
    Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner Book Cover, portrait of author Michelle Zauner
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    Michelle Zauner On Writing Crying In H Mart

    April 2, 2024
    Portrait of Dua Lipa and author Michelle Zauner: Relates to author Q&A for Service95 Book Club
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    Michelle Zauner Author Q&A

    April 2, 2024
    Service95 Book Club: Crying in H Mart Reading List
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    Michelle Zauner’s Recommended Reading List

    April 2, 2024
    Courtesy of Mingles
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    5 Dining Hotspots To Visit In Seoul 

    April 2, 2024
    Crying In H Mart Playlist Book Club
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    Playlist: Michelle Zauner’s Writing Soundtrack For Crying in H Mart

    April 2, 2024
    The Importance Of Food In South Korean Culture
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    The Importance Of Food In South Korean Culture

    April 2, 2024 | By Fiona Bae
    Portrait of playwright and writer Suzie Miller
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    My Culture Hits: Prima Facie Author Suzie Miller

    March 20, 2024 | By Jamie Styles
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    The Best Literary Festivals To Visit Around The World  

    March 20, 2024 | By Jamie Styles
    Illustration of a women sat on a bed
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    Hernan Diaz On Conflicting Storylines And The Perception Of Truth In Trust

    March 20, 2024
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    1920s-Inspired Sazerac Cocktail Recipe

    March 7, 2024
    Dua Lipa Q&A With Hernan Diaz, author of Trust, for Service95 Book Club
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    Hernan Diaz Author Q&A

    March 1, 2024
    Hernan Diaz on Writing Trust - Service95 Book Club
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    Hernan Diaz On Writing Trust

    March 1, 2024
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    Playlist: Hernan Diaz’s Writing Soundtracks For Trust

    March 1, 2024
    Hernan Diaz Recommended Reading List
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    Hernan Diaz’s Recommended Reading List

    March 1, 2024
    Scenes in New York following the Wall Street Crash
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    Trust, The Roaring Twenties And The Wall Street Crash

    March 1, 2024
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    My Pen Is The Wing Of A Bird Extract: New Fiction By Afghan Women 

    February 21, 2024 | By Batool Haidari
    Image of the interior of the Ateneo Grand Splendid Bookstore in Buenos Aires Argentina

    Bookshop Spotlight: El Ateneo Grand Splendid, Buenos Aires

    February 21, 2024
    Author Annabelle Hirsch For My Life In Culture
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    ⁠My Culture Hits: A History Of Women In 101 Objects Author Annabelle Hirsch

    February 21, 2024 | By Jamie Styles
    Dua Lipa and Khaled Hosseini Author Q&A
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    Khaled Hosseini Author Q&A

    February 1, 2024
    Khaled Hosseini On Writing A Thousand Splendid Suns – Service95 Book Club
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    Khaled Hosseini On Writing A Thousand Splendid Suns

    February 1, 2024
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    Khaled Hosseini’s Recommended Reading List

    February 1, 2024
    Dua Lipa holding Dua's Monthly Read book, A Thousand Splendid Suns for Service95 Book Club
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    Announcing February’s Monthly Read: A Thousand Splendid Suns

    February 1, 2024
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    Playlist: Khaled Hosseini’s Writing Soundtrack For A Thousand Splendid Suns

    February 1, 2024
    Women walking down street in Kabul city, Afghanistan in 1973, wearing full length Burqas
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    The Reality Of The Taliban’s Anti-Women Regime – From The ’90s To Today   

    February 1, 2024
    Portrait of writer and editor of Strong Words magazine Ed Needham
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    The Way I Work... Strong Words’ Ed Needham

    January 31, 2024 | By Pia Brynteson
    Film stills from Vanity Fair, Saltburn, The Talented Mr Ripley, Succession, The Great Gatsby
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    Reckless, Dangerous, Undaunted: Pop Culture’s Enduring Fascination With The Outsider 

    January 31, 2024 | By Marie-Claire Chappet
    Portrait of author Jennifer Clement
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    The Books That Made Me – Jennifer Clement

    January 31, 2024
    Portrait of chef Alison Roman
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    Set The Scene With Alison Roman’s Hamptons-Inspired Clam & Cod Chowder

    January 30, 2024
    Dua Lipa and Emma Cline Author Q&A
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    Emma Cline Author Q&A

    January 4, 2024
    Emma Cline Writing Process - Service95 Book Club
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    Emma Cline On Writing The Guest

    January 4, 2024
    Emma Cline's The Guest Playlist - Service95 Book Club
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    Playlist: Emma Cline’s The Guest Soundtrack

    January 4, 2024
    How The Hamptons Became Home To The Power Elite - Service95 Book Club
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    How The Hamptons Became Home To The Power Elite

    January 4, 2024
    Emma Cline's Recommended Reading List
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    Emma Cline’s Recommended Reading List

    January 4, 2024
    Dua Lipa holding The Guest book by Emma Cline
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    Announcing January’s Monthly Read... The Guest

    January 4, 2024
    Dua Lipa and Brit Bennett
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    Brit Bennett Author Q&A

    November 9, 2023
    Brit Bennett On Writing The Vanishing Half
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    Brit Bennett On Writing The Vanishing Half

    November 9, 2023
    The Vanishing Half Context Piece

    Passing In America: A History That Inspired Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half

    November 9, 2023
    Service95 Book Club Brit Bennett's Recommended Reading List
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    Brit Bennett’s Recommended Reading List

    November 9, 2023
    Service95 Book Club: Brit Bennett's Vanishing Half Playlist
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    Playlist: Brit Bennett’s Writing Soundtrack

    November 9, 2023
    Dua Lipa holding Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
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    Announcing November’s Monthly Read... The Vanishing Half 

    November 9, 2023
    Aaliyah Cotton's Family Archive imagery
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    Rethinking Identity: Unravelling The Complexities Of The Mixed-Race Experience

    November 9, 2023 | By Aaliyah Cotton
    Service95 Book Club Latin American Reading List
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    Book Club: The Best Latin American Books To Read Now 

    October 16, 2023
    Portrait of Colombian writer and journalist Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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    Juan Gabriel Vásquez On One Hundred Years Of Solitude 

    October 12, 2023
    Colourful streets of Cartagena, Colombia
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    From Aracataca To Cartagena: Exploring Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombia 

    October 3, 2023 | By Kathleen Rellihan
    Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years Of Solitude Playlist
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    Playlist: Gabriel García Márquez’s Writing Soundtrack

    October 2, 2023
    Men Harvesting Bananas On A Latin American Plantation c 1950
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    Colombia’s Banana Massacre – The Real-Life Event That Inspired Gabriel García Márquez

    October 2, 2023
    Service95 Book Club Latin American Reading List
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    Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias’ Latin American Reading List

    October 2, 2023
    Service95 Book Club: Mariana Torres Roots short story Latin American writer
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    A Hay Festival Cartagena Short Story: Roots By Mariana Torres

    October 2, 2023
    Service95 Book Club: Juan Gabriel Vásquez On One Hundred Years Of Solitude
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    Juan Gabriel Vásquez: “One Hundred Years Of Solitude Is Everything You Look For In A Novel”

    October 2, 2023 | By Maria Padget
    Patti Smith in New York
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    Book Club: Inside Patti Smith’s World

    September 28, 2023
    Patti Smith book list
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    Book Club: Patti Smith’s Recommended Reading List 

    September 21, 2023
    Patti Smith Dua Lipa Author Q&A
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    Patti Smith Author Q&A

    September 8, 2023
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    Announcing September’s Monthly Read... Just Kids 

    September 7, 2023
    A scene from Dreaming Walls: Inside The Chelsea Hotel; Patti Smith on a balcony at the Chelsea Hotel, May 1971; Hotel Chelsea exterior; Chelsea Girls movie poster; Janis Joplin in the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel, March 1969; Hotel Chelsea facade; Patti Smith and Eric Anderson at the Chelsea Hotel, May 1971
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    The Chelsea Hotel: A ‘Desperate Haven’ For New York’s Creatives

    September 4, 2023
    Patti Smith reading a letter to Robert Mapplethorpe
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    Patti Smith Letter Reading

    September 1, 2023
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    Patti Smith Just Kids Reading

    September 1, 2023
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    Patti Smith’s Recommended Reading List

    September 1, 2023
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    Playlist: Patti Smith’s Music Notes For Just Kids

    August 29, 2023
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Author Q&A

    August 14, 2023
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie On Her Writing Process
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie On Writing Half Of A Yellow Sun

    August 3, 2023
    Half Of A Yellow Sun Service95 Book Club Augut Book of the Month
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    Announcing August’s Monthly Read... Half Of A Yellow Sun 

    August 3, 2023
    Books that feature the Igbo Language
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    “Why We Centre Igbo Culture And Language In Our Writing” 

    August 3, 2023 | By Chika Unigwe

    Post-Colonial Nigeria And The Biafran War

    August 1, 2023
    Single covers from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's playlist
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    Playlist: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Nigerian Highlife

    August 1, 2023
    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Recommended Reading List
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Recommended Reading List

    July 26, 2023
    Min JIn Lee Author Q&A
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    Min Jin Lee Author Q&A

    July 21, 2023
    Dua Lipa Interviewing Douglas Stuart for Service95's Book Club
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    Douglas Stuart Author Q&A

    July 7, 2023
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    Min Jin Lee Explains The Game Of Pachinko

    July 6, 2023
    Min Jin Lee reading list - books artwork
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    Min Jin Lee’s Recommended Reading List

    July 6, 2023
    Min Jin Lee Pachinko sisterhood playlist - album artwork
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    Playlist: Min Jin Lee’s Sounds Of Sisterhood

    July 6, 2023
    Dua Lipa Service95 Book Club Book of the Month July pick Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
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    Announcing July’s Monthly Read: Pachinko 

    July 6, 2023
    Min Jin Lee Pachinko essay: images of Pachinko parlours in Japan throughout history
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    Min Jin Lee: “Pachinko Became An Organising Metaphor For My Story” 

    July 6, 2023
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    Min Jin Lee On Writing Pachinko

    June 30, 2023
    Illustrated portrait of author Douglas Stuart
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    Listen Now – Dua Lipa: At Your Service Bonus Podcast Episode

    June 22, 2023
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    Douglas Stuart’s Recommended Reading List

    June 14, 2023
    Image of a woman with a child in front of a derelict building in Glasgow

    The World Of Shuggie Bain: Life In 1980s Glasgow

    June 7, 2023 | By Tiffany Murray
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    Douglas Stuart: How The Real Writing Is Often In The Re-Writing

    May 26, 2023

    Playlist: The Sounds Of Shuggie Bain’s Glasgow

    May 17, 2023
    Archive image of young boy in Glasgow blowing bubblegum in the deserted street
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    Douglas Stuart On The Powerful Images That Inspired Shuggie Bain 

    May 11, 2023

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