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October 2023 Issue [Letter from the Tri-State Area]

The Golden Fleece

A historical adventure
“Joe,” by Thomas Allen. All still life photographs by Thomas Allen for Harper’s Magazine © The artist

“Joe,” by Thomas Allen. All still life photographs by Thomas Allen for Harper’s Magazine © The artist

[Letter from the Tri-State Area]

The Golden Fleece

A historical adventure
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The whole thing started with Zeus looking down at me, tail puffed, claws gripping my chest.

What’s wrong, Big Z? I asked. Where’s your sister?

I rubbed the sand from my eyes and put it all together.

We had all fallen asleep as usual, to a video of a British Star Wars collector polishing his Imperial shuttle with a toothbrush and a can of Mr. Sheen, when at some unknown hour YouTube’s autoplay function took over. Now a man named Gary was shouting about vintage paperback novels in a…

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 is a senior editor at Harper’s Magazine. His book Lost at Sea will be published by Dey Street in 2025.


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