But Rick, in England anyway, a reviewer and an author in a journal often know one another. Les Murray gives me a good review (bless him) and I certainly know him. We have drunk beer together in a hotel in Deal and eaten in a restaurant in Tonbridge. I 'know' though not well, the poetry editors at the Spectator and the Times Literary Supplement. They are both poets, and they both live in London which is only an hour away, so I would.
Probably in the States, the distances being longer, this sort of thing is less the case, but in, say, Dublin and Edinburgh it is much more so.
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