
John Hendrix
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John Hendrix
@hendrixart
Professional Drawer (not furniture). Author / Illustrator of 'The Mythmakers’ ‘The Faithful Spy’ & others. Professor @samfoxschool Chair @samfox_MFA_IVC



In 1916, seemingly on a whim, C.S. Lewis picked up Phantastes at a book stall in Leatherhead. This is the book that Lewis says baptized his imagination and set him on a very different path than his espoused materialism would have allowed. Without this stroke of providence, we might not have the Lewis we read today. It is also very possible that we would not have the Tolkien we read today.





Last year, The Atlantic gave me $10K to gamble with. What started as a journalistic gimmick turned into something more... unnerving. My cover story on the online betting boom warping sports, culture, politics, and the psyches of millions of young men: theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…


































