Photo by Niall McDiarmid/ Millennium Images, UK For the past month, I have been focusing on my work, which involves organising book launches and literary parties as part of Soho Reading Series (hosted across London). This dominates my life at the expense of almost everything else. A typical day of preparation looks like this: in the morning, I go to my friend Jago Rackham’s apartment. We sit and work in his main room, which is airy and painted white. I write a speech about him and his book while listening to Playboi Carti. The space around us is stacked high with beer and wine, as well as books for the sold-out party we are hosting to launch his new book, To Entertain: Instructions for a Dinner Party . We break for lunch, and Jago cooks chickpea pancakes, which we eat with haddock. In the evening, the Rose Lipman Hall in De Beauvoir Town is buzzing. Joana Kohen’s stage design rises in a pyramid-like formation around the readers. The crowd is happy-drunk on free drinks. Jago and I don’t drink as we are sober.…