David Gessner, a professor and writer, considers life as a teacher/author in the New York Times. The article says what we all know: you gotta make some bread to make some butter. Wait, I totally screwed up that metaphor. But you get what I mean.
An excerpt:
Writers who have been lucky enough to land these gigs are inclined to talk — when we aren’t grumbling — about their good fortune in sensible language, citing all that is sane, healthy, balanced and economically viable about their jobs. But another question is discussed less. What exactly does all this teaching do to our writing? And what, if anything, does it mean for a country to have a tenured literature?
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