On Monday, September 15, Dua Lipa hosted a live session of her Service95 book club and Spotify podcast at the New York Public Library. The author David Szalay was her guest; his novel Flesh, billed as an "unconventional rags-to-riches story," was Dua's pick of the month. Later, in a Q&A with Spotify Chief Public Affairs Officer Dustee Jenkins, the singer would joke that she finished the book in two sessions—only because a performance on her Radical Optimism world tour interrupted her reading marathon.
I'd wrongly assumed when I scored an invitation to the recording—a ticket to rival the Tory Burch show going on across the river at the same time—that Dua might translate the storied, academic setting into a librarian-chic cardigan or sweet babydoll dress. I should have known she would actually turn a new page in the category of book club outfits.
