Can You Have a Rewarding Intellectual Life Outside Academe?

“'You have an awesome job — you know that, right? I’m jealous.'” Those words were uttered by a tenured professor over coffee one day, as I told him about my then-job working in theater as a literary manager and dramaturge.

Had I heard him correctly? He was the one with the swanky permanent teaching job while I couldn’t find a tenure-track gig in literature to save my life."

Warren Hoffman is executive director of the Association for Jewish Studies.

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