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June 2024 Issue [Story]

The Pleasure of a Working Life

Illustrations by Miguel Manich

At the time of the adman’s death, Gary Minihan had been with the Postal Service for thirty-five years. He spent the first thirty as a letter carrier in Abington, Pennsylvania, where his pragmatic father, who also carried mail, had persuaded him to take what was meant to be a temporary job at the age of twenty-two, after Gary had quit junior college for the second time. That was 1980. A first-class stamp cost fifteen cents. They gave him a walking route that included Paperbark Avenue, where he had lived as a teenager and…

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’s story “New Poets” appeared in the November 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine. His first novel, Early Sobrieties, was published last month.



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