Who is your very good friend so this is not at all a surprise at all?
I wonder were you given a chance to preview the note for content, as is your habit?
As a Jon Paul Fiorentino has said
“Why are certain conflicts of interest in the literary world HUGE news (like reviews written for the Toronto Star by people who know people or hate people) but the most blatant and obvious ones never talked about (like editing a periodical and having your own books featured and lauded)?”
I guess he isn’t talking about you. I am quite sure you will not publish this but I might.
j
2 comments:
As was expected Angela Rawlings removed my comment, but only after Sharon Harris made a lame claim of innocents. To which I responded that (roughly) the two appeared to be partaking in the great and endless cycle of “conflict of interest” that many claim (like JPF) plagues literature in Canada.
While perhaps Harris is being honest in her recommendation on “Toronto’s Biggest Blog”, the fact remains a conflict of interest appears, firstly their friendship and, secondly Rawlings works at the same press that just published Harris’s book.
But in Toronto no such conflicts exists. And no real (or unreal) conversation on the topic can happen.
j
i understand this point. if it (the connection of friendship & press) was pointed out, would you then have no problem with it?
i ask because this (art) is a small community, and at some point, rather quickly, it is difficult to find this 'purity'.
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