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To Call Each Thing By Its Right Name
I was thinking about Christopher McCandless the other day.
Mar 4
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Joshua Doležal
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February 2025
The Solitary Wanderer Comes Home
The following is a new chapter from a memoir in progress, which I aim to finish by the end of this year.
Feb 25
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Joshua Doležal
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The Accordion of Time
Imagine yourself at a coffee shop with a new friend.
Feb 18
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Joshua Doležal
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The Things Not Named — With Kern Carter
Joshua Doležal: Welcome back to The Recovering Academic Podcast.
Feb 11
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Joshua Doležal
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Kern Carter
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The Mountaineer’s Method for Book Mapping
There is a section in The Dawn Wall, a documentary about two record-breaking climbers, where Tommy Caldwell has completed a portion of the route, but…
Feb 4
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Joshua Doležal
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January 2025
What I Learned From A Long Walk To School
My father kept a paddle in his closet that featured a bear cub trailing a fawn. The inscription read, “For the cute little deer with the bear behind…
Jan 28
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Joshua Doležal
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The Problem With Writing Dialogue In Memoir
In “On Keeping a Notebook,” Joan Didion reflects on a lunch with her father when she may or may not have ordered cracked crab, even though she now…
Jan 21
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Joshua Doležal
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Champion Of The Humanities
Today, in anticipation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, I want to celebrate an essay that ought to be referenced more often. “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence…
Jan 17
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Joshua Doležal
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Telling the Truth Slantwise: Tobias Wolff's "In Pharaoh's Army"
My plan for this year is to clear more time for writing offline with the larger book goal in mind.
Jan 14
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Joshua Doležal
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Telling the Truth Slantwise: Tobias Wolff's "In Pharaoh's Army"
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Answering The "So What" Question With The XY Formula
In my end-of-year post I resolved to finish a new memoir by the end of 2025.
Jan 7
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Joshua Doležal
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December 2024
The Recovering Academic In 2024
And a glimpse into 2025
Dec 31, 2024
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Joshua Doležal
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The Hedgehog
A poem
Dec 24, 2024
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Joshua Doležal
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