The Doing Of It: Recent Episodes

Jonas Holdeman

Maybe you've wondered what it would be like to drop everything and do something nuts, like start a Ph.D. At age 56. During a pandemic. So did I. Don't worry: as a wise old woman once said "There's plenty of work, and the doing of it keeps me from worrying too much."

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How do you feel about oranges and Hershey's chocolate? How about canoe trips in Alaska and Maine or down the Merrimack and Concord Rivers? About basketball and tennis, golf and lacrosse? Plate tectonics? Russian art? If you're anything like me, you love great writing, and if you love great writing, then stick around for this episode about one of the greatest writers of the 20th--and 21st--century. 

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A short, almost hardly-rambling thumbnail sketch of The Doing Of It podcast, a show devoted to the art of conversation.