Archive - The Recovering Academic

October 2024

A Garden Never Dies

To everything there is a season, but for a brief stretch of October it is both a time for reaping and for sowing.

Oct 29 •

Joshua Doležal

We Are All Babbitts Or Bartlebys Now

The college landscape in America is beginning to look a lot like the 1920s, but since we’ve stopped reading the literature of that era, at least in…

Oct 22 •

Joshua Doležal

The Lake And The Sea

A short story | Julie Baker later imagined that she’d been able to feel it, a sudden turn in the wind, a bank of clouds building along the rim of the…

Oct 15 •

Joshua Doležal

There Is No Wildness In "The Wild Robot"

This past weekend I took my daughter to the movies.

Oct 8 •

Joshua Doležal

Can You Be Sober If You Never Were An Alcoholic?

Josh: I think I’ve told you, Dee, that a little over a year ago, the very day that my ex and I decided that we would divorce, I stopped drinking.

Oct 1 •

Joshua Doležal

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September 2024

Can A Philosopher Be A Happy Capitalist?

G.V. Loewen previews his health and wellness startup

Sep 24 •

Joshua Doležal

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Home Is The Native Soil Of The Heart

Today’s essay is part of a new series including me, Latham Turner, Bowen Dwelle , Sincere American Writing, Dee Rambeau, and Lyle McKeany. In the past…

Sep 17 •

Joshua Doležal

Discussion: Seeing Our Mothers As Characters

Earlier this week, I shared some thoughts about transforming real people — especially parents — into characters in memoir.

Sep 13 •

Joshua Doležal

Seeing Our Mothers As Characters

In his memoir Nobody’s Son, Mark Slouka recalls an afternoon when he caught a glimpse of his mother with her lover, a man he only ever names as “F.”

Sep 10 •

Joshua Doležal

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