Archive - The Recovering Academic

November 2024

How I Became A Scholar - Pt. 1

Halfway through my sophomore year in college, just after Christmas break, I caught whooping cough.

Nov 26 •

Joshua Doležal

Pierre Bourdieu Was Blowing Down the Street

A Conversation with John Pistelli

Nov 19 •

Joshua Doležal

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Have We Returned to Colonial Times?

I have been thinking this week of Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan woman who stood trial in 1637 for troubling the commonwealth of New England.

Nov 12 •

Joshua Doležal

Why Everyone Should Keep An Authority List

Some of you might have seen this essay recently on Jane Friedman’s site. If you are a new subscriber, welcome! 👋🏻 I hope you’ll join the conversation…

Nov 5 •

Joshua Doležal

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

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