The Recovering Academic
Joshua Doležal, Kimberly Warner, Istiaq Mian, MD, Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan, Damon Tweedy, MDsRebuilding a life and a writing practice after leaving academe.
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Is There Such A Thing As "Humanitarian Lying"?
“The Truman Show” from Paramount Pictures
I did not know before reading Sandeep Jauhar’s memoir, My Father’s Brain, that “therapeutic deception” was a clinical term. Otherwise known as “validation therapy,” the practice emerged in the 1980...
The Alternate American Dream
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I’m traveling this week with my kids, so here’s an updated essay from the archive. It first appeared in 2024 as part of a collaborative series.
One day my kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Sampson, tried to snap...
How I Observe Independence Day (2026 Version)
The first version of this essay appeared three years ago. Much is the same, but since we’re observing America’s 250th anniversary, I’m sharing an update.
The Fourth of July is a celebration for many. For me it is a time to reflect on what...
Some Things You Remember Best Never Happened At All
"A lot of what makes [memoir] good is what you leave out. You can’t interpret things for the reader."
Dr. Sandeep Jauhar, author of “My Father’s Brain”
Today, on “The Things Not Named,” I speak with Dr. , a cardiologist and the author of...
If You're Dying, I'm The Person You Want In The Room
"I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve walked into a patient’s room and their chart tells me they should be dead and they’re not, and I don’t know why. And I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve walked into a patient’s room where the...
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Author of a memoir and a poetry collection. Essays in Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Founder and director of Unfixed—a multi-media company that explores how adversity can broaden our definition of what it means to live a “good life.”
Bangladeshi-American physician from Madison, Wisconsin. I write stories about human behavior through memoir and narrative medicine. Words in NYT Modern Love.
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