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It's like, you know, for example, like right now they just did Lincoln and the Bardo at the Metropolitan Opera.

And what great thing then to team up with someone like Dua Lipa and her podcast, Service95, and do this little mini doc project.

It's great marketing and great cross-marketing.

It makes it more exciting because you have someone who has such a huge platform to bring this work from this very renowned author to the masses.

Um, and you've been so generous and you've shared so many exclusive insights to this book, including some really special details on your researching and writing, um, process and also for the wonderful essay, um, on the game of Pachinko and how it became like a very organizing metaphor for the novel.

And all of that can be found on service95.com so I'm very excited for everyone to be able to see that.

But for our chat today, I really wanted to focus on the characters and the major themes that this book explores.

Um, so shall we get started?

You might be like, "Well, Dua Lipa, the pop star," but she's been in the l- literary space.

She is a founder of Service95, which is a curated newsletter on culture, politics, and world issues, and she of course also has a book club called Service95 Book Club, which is dedicated to reading the world differently.

My favorite thing was...

This stays in my head rent-free.

And it's a, it's a, it's a real, it's a true privilege to, to speak to you.

Um, for everyone listening, we have more exclusive content from Ishiguro on service95.com, including his playlist and reading list.

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Ish, thank you so, so, so, so, so much.

This really, it means so much to me.