Nick Jensen makes his return to Ottawa Senators after off-season hip surgery

In a certain sense, I have been an employee of the Canadian government for the roughly eighteen months during which I wrote my book, How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists. Not in the sense of having job security or benefits or a pension contribution or a direct supervisor or a specific place to be or a title, but who’s to say that those are what make a job (neither Uber nor the New York Times offers them)? In the important sense, though—the sense where they give me money and I provide them with tangible proof that I have been working along the parameters we agreed upon when...