Dua Lipa is, obviously, good at a lot of things. She sings, she dances, she writes dozens of songs, and she co-designed a collection with Donatella Versace. But if someone told you that she’d recently come out on top in a Mortal Kombat-style contest as the best literary interviewer, you’d probably think they’d taken her song Hallucinate a bit too literally.
Nevertheless, that’s what’s happened, in a YouTube video that has garnered more than a million views in a matter of weeks. And the case it makes is … surprisingly convincing. “I was researching a video essay about the quality of literary interviews in different venues,” says writer Blake Lefray, who put the video together for his fledgling channel. He came across Lipa’s interview with Hernan Diaz, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning Trust, and was “pretty blown away”.
