# Jean-Baptiste Answers Your Questions Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/service95-book-club-with-dua-lipa-7360472/jean-baptiste-answers-your-questions Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/service95-book-club-with-dua-lipa-7360472/jean-baptiste-answers-your-questions.md Podcast: [Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa](https://stenobird.com/podcast/service95-book-club-with-dua-lipa-7360472) Published: 2026-02-17T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/SVC6885314925.mp3?updated=1770917275 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/SVC6885314925.mp3?updated=1770917275 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/service95-book-club-with-dua-lipa-7360472/episodes/jean-baptiste-answers-your-questions Duration seconds: 360 ## Resource Jean-Baptiste Del Amo joins Dua for this special Service95 Book Club episode and answers questions from our Service95 community. In this episode, he reflects on the emotion he most wants readers to confront in The Son of Man, and why discomfort can open the door to deeper understanding. How does he portray brutality without crossing into excess? Where is the line between honesty and spectacle? The conversation also explores fate and free will. Are his characters trapped in cycles shaped by history, family and violence, or do they have the power to choose differently? How much of our lives is inherited – and how much is ours to reclaim? Jean-Baptiste also offers insight into his creative process: how he knows when a novel is finished, when to stop revising, and which writers have influenced his voice the most. Don’t miss it. Buy the book at Bookshop.org, Waterstones, and Barnes & Noble Get in touch: πŸ“© Email us – books@service95.com πŸ“² Follow @service95bookclub on Instagram for updates πŸ“š Subscribe to the Service95 Book Club newsletter – introduced each month by Dua – at www.service95.com And don’t forget to hit subscribe wherever you get your podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/service95-book-club-with-dua-lipa-7360472/episodes/jean-baptiste-answers-your-questions/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/service95-book-club-with-dua-lipa-7360472/jean-baptiste-answers-your-questions.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.