If you’ve written extensively with the author of a book, you should disclose this explicitly in your review of the book. This is true even if your writing was pseudonymous. This is true especially if you feel that readers not in your in-group might misinterpret the nature of the writing due to lack of cultural familiarity. This is true especially if the joint writing is the most detailed source publicly available for the trickier parts of the book’s underlying philosophy, and especially especially if the author’s favored response to one of the main critiques of their programme is to reference your portion of the joint writing. It is not enough to merely mention in a footnote that you get along with the author. If you don’t want to disclose this then you should not review the book. It is okay to maintain pseudonyms precisely when you follow appropriate social partitioning rules to avoid exactly the thing I am describing.
(This post intentionally left vague, I’m not interested in doxxing anyone.)
If you’ve written extensively with the author of a book, you should disclose this explicitly in your review of the book. This is true even if your writing was pseudonymous. This is true especially if you feel that readers not in your in-group might misinterpret the nature of the writing due to lack of cultural familiarity. This is true especially if the joint writing is the most detailed source publicly available for the trickier parts of the book’s underlying philosophy, and especially especially if the author’s favored response to one of the main critiques of their programme is to reference your portion of the joint writing. It is not enough to merely mention in a footnote that you get along with the author. If you don’t want to disclose this then you should not review the book. It is okay to maintain pseudonyms precisely when you follow appropriate social partitioning rules to avoid exactly the thing I am describing.
(This post intentionally left vague, I’m not interested in doxxing anyone.)