I wrote the manuscript for The Underwriting in the summer of 2013. I’d just quit my job at J.P. Morgan and moved to London for four months, where I camped out in the [generously offered] spare bedrooms of friends across the city and settled into life on my own schedule. One weekend at a Giles Peterson music festival, I had this thought that it would be nice to have musical accompaniment to the story, and convinced my two favorite DJ-cum-consultants, Si Domone and Hayden Wood, to mix weekly playlists that followed the emotional tenor of each episode. They linked up with their friends at MixCloud to get it streamed through the site, and another friend, the gallerist Alexandra Warder, found the immensely talented artist Catherine Parsonages to create album covers for each.
