Dua Lipa's SERVICE95 Book Club Sets 'Trust' by Hernan Diaz as March Read

Dua Lipa's Service95 Book Club reveals details about March's Monthly Read: Trust by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hernan Diaz. The Service95 Book Club will offer exclusive content from Dua and Hernan throughout the month on service95.com and across socials.

Of Trust, Dua says, “This book made my head spin! Set in New York City in the 1920s and '30s, the story of a Manhattan financier and his high society wife is told through four ‘books' – a novel, a manuscript, a memoir and a journal. But which version should you trust? Is there even one true reality? As we sift our way through these competing narratives, Diaz serves us clues and red herrings in equal measure.” 

“We know we are being gamed,” Dua adds, “but we're not sure exactly which character is gaming us. While each reader will draw their own conclusion when they reach the end of this complex and thrilling book, what is never disputed is the ease with which money and power can bend reality itself.” 

“I was obsessed and you might just be too,” Dua wraps up.

This month's Service95 Book Club content features an illuminating author Q&A between Dua and Hernan, which you can check out here. In Dua and Hernan's conversation, the two discuss the “silent and anonymous toil” preceding success, the terms and conditions that we tacitly accept when reading anything from a novel to a medicine bottle, the gaslighting of women in finance in the early 20th century, the danger of writing “literary selfies,” and why the character Mildred “has blood on her hands.”

Readers can also dive into Hernan's curated playlist, recommended reading list, insight into his writing process, and a discussion guide to go along with the book. Later this month, Hernan's essay on “Conflicting Storylines and the Perception of Truth” will be available as well.

Dua's Service95 Book Club is the latest offering from her Service95 platform, which also consists of the At Your Service podcast and the flagship Service95 newsletter. Service95 has been praised by The Guardian as "some of the most thought-provoking short-form cultural writing you can find,” and the podcast has been lauded by The Sunday Times, Vogue and Vulture. In addition, Spotify named it one of the Best Podcasts of 2022, and praised Dua as “an incredibly thoughtful interviewer with a genuine interest in people, social movements, and the arts.” 

You can follow Service95 on socials and YouTube to get the latest, and subscribe to the newsletter here to stay in the loop on upcoming monthly reads.

About Hernan Diaz

Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of two novels translated into 35 languages. His first novel, In the Distance, was a finalist for the Pulitzer and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2018. His second novel Trust is the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 2022, Trust was one of Barack Obama's Favourite Books, won the Kirkus Prize, and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Trust is currently being developed into a limited series for HBO, produced by Kate Winslet.

Diaz's stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar, The Atlantic, Granta, The Yale Review and McSweeney's. He is the recipient of the 2023 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, a Whiting Award (2019) and the William Saroyan International Prize (2018). When Diaz was two years old, his parents fled Argentina for Sweden after a military coup. His formative years were spent in Stockholm. He returned to Argentina aged nine and has lived in Brooklyn for 25 years.

About Dua Lipa

3x GRAMMY and 6x BRIT Award-winning global pop powerhouse Dua Lipa has kicked off 2024 with “Training Season,” the latest single from her highly anticipated forthcoming album. Last November, Dua returned with the euphoric club-ready track “Houdini,” which went straight to #1 on the UK Airplay charts, drew in over 12 million YouTube views within 24 hours and garnered immediate praise across the board from Rolling Stone and Billboard, who said the track is “an immediate blast” to Pitchfork and Vogue, who called it “a pop masterclass.”

“Houdini” followed Dua's hit song "Dance The Night" from the box office sensation Barbie, which landed on the Oscars shortlist and earned nominations at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards and the GRAMMYs.

Dua's certified platinum sophomore album Future Nostalgia solidified her position as both a critical success and top radio performer. The GRAMMY-nominated record was the longest running top 10 album by a female artist on the Billboard 200 in 2021, and spawned multiple worldwide hit singles, with “Levitating” earning certified diamond status and the title of Billboard's No. 1 Hot 100 Song of 2021.

Dua has found superstar status on stage and off, thanks to her many passions outside of music. 2022 saw Dua launch Service95, a global style, culture and society editorial platform that now comprises a weekly newsletter, the Service95 book club and the Dua Lipa: At Your Service podcast, which has been lauded by The Sunday Times and The Guardian, and was named one of the Best Podcasts of 2022 by Spotify.

Having graced every major fashion magazine worldwide from Vogue and Elle to W and Dazed, Dua added "designer" to her resume in 2023 when she co-designed Versace's "La Vacanza" collection alongside Donatella Versace herself, which Vogue deemed "the hottest collaboration of the summer."

Dua's eponymous 2017 debut album is certified platinum, spawned six platinum tracks, and made her the first female artist in BRIT Awards history to pick up five nominations in a single year. Dua has a total of 10 GRAMMY nominations, with three wins for Best Pop Vocal Album, Best New Artist and Best Dance Recording. Across platforms globally, she has amassed over 40 billion streams and holds the record for having the top two most streamed albums by a female artist of all time on Spotify.

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