I read something years ago about Anais Nin being part of a community of writers (including Henry Miller) who were getting paid $1 a page to write, shall we say, 'explicit' stories for an anonymous, wealthy collector. You can find out more about the story itself easily enough, but the thing that really struck me and stayed with me, was that Nin was part of a group of writers who hung out together, worked in a collective and were trying to make a living through writing, creating. How, I always wondered, did these writers all find each other? I mean, I assume that they were all hanging out at the same cafés or salons or gatherings all the time, but still... How did they go from crossing paths to having and sharing a writing community and culture?