AO: Shared commitments, intellectual, ideological and political convictions and assumptions (in this case, commitment to lucid writing; significance between popular and “high” culture, respect for the cultural world outside the academy) (548)
AO: Meeting at least once in person.
AO: They note that these things made them “collaborate” better: sitting together in front of computer and writing; stimulate each other with ideas and hints in letters; diary letter writing every other week; read the same books at the same time and exchange different but complementary responses; delaying time together until “ready to explode or implode with new words, new ideas.”
