The Recovering Academic
Joshua Doležal, Kimberly Warner, Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan, Damon Tweedy, MDsRebuilding a life and a writing practice after leaving academe.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 319 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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When Do We Refuse The Medical Machine?
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One reviewer of my memoir, Down from the Mountaintop, claimed that I’d been raised to reject the modern world. I suppose he’s right, but it’s a bit more complicated than that. Whenever someone claims that you’r...
She Woke Up Dizzy. It Lasted 18 Years.
You’re two people in a situation, and you don’t know each other, so you don’t know the best way to communicate yet. You always hear those blanket statements like, “If you see a bear, do this,” but every bear interaction is different. The be...
The Best Doctor In American Literature Isn't A Doctor At All
From Penguin Random House
Written after the deaths of her parents and amid unstable health of her own, Shadows on the Rock (1931) became a refuge for Willa Cather as she wrote it. It’s set in seventeenth-century Quebec, but it also capture...
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...
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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.”
Where medicine, culture, and curiosity meet
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