Would Random House do this for you?

Poet Patricia Young (right) chats with members of Poetry London following her reading at the Fred Landon Library in London, Ontario, April 7

The beer selection was less than exemplary, and Patricia didn’t like the look of hers, once delivered. So Dan Wells gave her his.

Which takes me back to the whole recent flap and kerfuffle concerning small presses as “farm teams,” and the various ripostes. Ask yourself this: what would Bertelsmann AG have done, in the same situation?