Detail from “John Lennon: Barefoot in Nutopia.” Book cover design by Sarah Phelps
In March 1977, Michael Barbosa Medeiros, a freelance houseplant doctor, was at a party chatting with John Green, a professional tarot-card reader, also known as “Charlie Swan.” Green told Medeiros about a possible job opening. A few days later he called Medeiros with the details: Go to apartment 72 in the Dakota, on West 72nd Street in New York City.
Medeiros waited outside the apartment, puzzled by a brass plaque on the door that read “Nutopian Embassy.” He’d never heard of that country. The door opened and a
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