obscurity | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:20:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Town and Country https://www.thesmartset.com/town-and-country/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=town-and-country https://www.thesmartset.com/town-and-country/#respond Thu, 11 Apr 2024 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64372 Some time ago, I embarked on a personal reading project: An informal survey of books that once had been widely read — so widely read, in fact, that they had earned their place in the literary lexicon.   The criteria for my project did have certain strictures. The operative word was once. The contents of these […]

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