I was thinking along those lines, too, Quincy. I once worked for, and am in touch from time to time with, Robert Olen Butler. He is a novelist not beloved of a certain editor that worked at the Time Book Review, and he insists that person contracted Jane Smiley for a hit on him with a review of I-forget-which-book. Smiley choked, as it turned out--after lambasting Butler for whatever political incorrectness of the past, she had to admit she liked the book. I guess it's no secret that this kind of thing happens, and I can certainly see it happening with a formalist poet and critic as a target.
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