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May 2025

The Kids Are Fighting. What Should Daddy Do?
The following is a new chapter from a memoir in progress.
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The Things Not Named — With Anne Trubek
Joshua Doležal: Welcome back to The Recovering Academic Podcast.
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Joshua Doležal
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Anne Trubek
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What Is Lyricism? Part Two.
If lyricism is defined in part by musical language, its other essential attribute is resonance.
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Joshua Doležal
AI and Thou
Earlier this week I read a plaintive post by a doctor who had found herself on the other side of the equation as a patient.
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April 2025

What Is Lyricism? Part One.
One of the unexpected delights of this spring has been building a bespoke syllabus in the art of the personal essay.
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Joshua Doležal
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The Gratitude Gap
The following is a new chapter from a memoir in progress, which I aim to finish by the end of this year.
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Joshua Doležal
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Is The Soul Of America Anti-Education?
I’ve often felt in 2025 that I’m beating against the current, trying to stick with the schedule I planned, but repeatedly being borne back into the past…
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Joshua Doležal
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Harmonizing All the Elements: Henry Lien's "Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird"
A friendly reminder to subscribers new and old that my plan this year is to alternate craft essays on the first and third weeks of each month with…
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Joshua Doležal
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How To Craft Enduring Metaphors
I know of few literary devices more delightful than metaphors, those artful comparisons between two otherwise unrelated things.
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Joshua Doležal
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