I generally stay aloof from the media world I contribute to, and there are both costs and benefits. A cost is that I miss out on networking (though I share contacts on here) but a benefit is missing out on having to feign bonhomie or claiming I love someone’s work bc I know them
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The unspoken thing, in both journalism and academia, is that people will promote each other’s work without reading it — this is the common practice. Because if you read some of this stuff, you might engage critically with it, and then you’d be less effective at selling it
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Replying to @MoustacheClubUS
This is especially bad among poets. One of the reasons I'm glad I no longer run in New York poetry circles is I was tired of glad-handing people's work just because I liked them as people.
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"So real...so honest...so urgent...keep going in that direction"
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