The Intellectual Life of a Publisher

More of a comment than a question

Six years ago, I left academia for good. It had been a slow goodbye, with unpaid leaves and minimal teaching (and pay) for years before I finally told TIAA-CREF I was no longer employed by the college, and thus could dip into my retirement funds, to help me do the job I do today. I wrote, in what was not yet a cliched genre, a piece of quit-lit.

Today, …