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My Odyssey with The Odyssey (opens the original)
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Spoilers ahead.Of course I wanted to see The Odyssey. I write fantasy novels, spent years working as a studio executive, and now coach writers through their own versions of the hero’s journey. Homer’s Odyssey is arguably the most famous of them all.As a progressive, bisexual, spiritually minded, anti-war feminist, I was also curious to see what Christopher Nolan would do with a 2,800-year-old epic built around war, masculinity, power, fidelity, and homecoming—one that, like most of us, I hadn’t
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