Maren Larsen | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:54:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Sound Salvation https://www.thesmartset.com/sound-salvation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sound-salvation https://www.thesmartset.com/sound-salvation/#respond Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:30:15 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=10429 Each section of this piece is accompanied by song. Press play and crank it. I stumbled out of the wormhole that was the first few weeks of freshman year and landed at a new member meeting for WKDU, Drexel’s student-run college radio station. A few dozen freshmen, overconfident in their music taste, gathered in an […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/sound-salvation/feed/ 0 Accented Arias https://www.thesmartset.com/accented-arias/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=accented-arias https://www.thesmartset.com/accented-arias/#respond Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:50:01 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=9730 Jennifer Higdon is an American composer born in Atlanta, Georgia. Her concertos have earned her a Pulitzer Prize for Music and a Grammy Award. Cold Mountain is her first opera, and it was co-commissioned by The Santa Fe Opera and Opera Philadelphia. She was reached by phone at her home in Philadelphia. This interview has been […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/accented-arias/feed/ 0 Old Rhymes, Bad Words, and Good News https://www.thesmartset.com/old-rhymes-bad-words-and-good-news/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-rhymes-bad-words-and-good-news https://www.thesmartset.com/old-rhymes-bad-words-and-good-news/#respond Thu, 14 Jan 2016 16:07:34 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=9172 The origins of the limerick are vague But the style came after black plague. And in today’s modern age This boyfriend may wage Spats in rhyme, though his girlfriend may beg. (Stylisticienne, The Smart Set) Let’s take a critical eye to the profane and the obscene. (Los Angeles Review of Books, The Smart Set) What’s […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/old-rhymes-bad-words-and-good-news/feed/ 0 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman https://www.thesmartset.com/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-woman/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-woman https://www.thesmartset.com/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-woman/#respond Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:39:28 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=9088 …might be hard to find, even in the 21st century. At art auctions in 2014 and 2015, 92% of lots were by male artists. But at least women don’t need permission to paint fish — anymore. (Art News, The Smart Set) Art takes many forms, and there is one arena of art that likely will […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-woman/feed/ 0 5 Questions with Kelly Cherry https://www.thesmartset.com/5-questions-with-kelly-cherry/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5-questions-with-kelly-cherry https://www.thesmartset.com/5-questions-with-kelly-cherry/#respond Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:58:28 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=8764 Kelly Cherry is an award-winning poet and novelist, and the former Poet Laureate of Virginia. Her latest book, Twelve Women in a Country Called America, is a collection of short stories. TSS assistant editor Maren Larsen reached Cherry by phone at her home in Virginia. 1.I recently read your collection Twelve Women in a Country […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/5-questions-with-kelly-cherry/feed/ 0 Made Up, Watered Down, and Missing Out https://www.thesmartset.com/made-up-watered-down-and-missing-out/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=made-up-watered-down-and-missing-out https://www.thesmartset.com/made-up-watered-down-and-missing-out/#respond Thu, 17 Dec 2015 14:19:48 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=8869 People — women in particular — have been making themselves up for centuries, often despite fear of public derision and threats to personal health. Makeup has been used as art and artifice, for subjugation and empowerment. Read about how it has changed through the years and how it looks today, as seen in the mirror of […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/made-up-watered-down-and-missing-out/feed/ 0 On Getting a Life https://www.thesmartset.com/on-getting-a-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-getting-a-life https://www.thesmartset.com/on-getting-a-life/#respond Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:28:45 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=8756 If you’re in the midst of a career change, I’ve got some advice: dress for the job you want. So, do you want to be a D.C. reporter? Or a punk rocker? (Lapham’s Quarterly, The Smart Set) Once you’ve landed the job (no doubt due, in part, to your stunning wardrobe choices), celebrate your newfound success with […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/on-getting-a-life/feed/ 0 He Said She Said https://www.thesmartset.com/he-said-she-said/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=he-said-she-said https://www.thesmartset.com/he-said-she-said/#respond Fri, 04 Dec 2015 13:39:01 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=8666 Aspiring writers must navigate the legions of advice from the legends who came before — not a simple task in a world that idolizes both Faulkner and Hemmingway. Read about teachers who advise their students against the use of the word “said,” and graduate programs that reject the use of anything but. (The Wall Street Journal, […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/he-said-she-said/feed/ 0 Investigating the Investigator, Marking the Margins, and Selecting a Statement https://www.thesmartset.com/investigating-the-investigator-marking-the-margins-and-selecting-a-statement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=investigating-the-investigator-marking-the-margins-and-selecting-a-statement https://www.thesmartset.com/investigating-the-investigator-marking-the-margins-and-selecting-a-statement/#respond Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:51:39 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=8427 The world’s most famous consulting detective seems to be on everyone’s minds of late. Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey, Jr., Ian McKellan, and Jonny Lee Miller have all taken on the role of Sherlock Holmes in the last five years, and audiences keep coming. Read Paula Marantz Cohen on the character’s sustained appeal and Fred J. Abbate […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/investigating-the-investigator-marking-the-margins-and-selecting-a-statement/feed/ 0 On Friday, Fears, and Franzen https://www.thesmartset.com/on-friday-fears-and-franzen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=on-friday-fears-and-franzen https://www.thesmartset.com/on-friday-fears-and-franzen/#respond Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:05:38 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=8285 Happy Friday the 13th to all the friggatriskaidekaphiles out there! Those who flout the superstition around this day would fit in well among the members (13, of course) of the Thirteen Club, who celebrated occasions such as these by walking under ladders, spilling salt, eating morbid food, and actively trying to beget terrible luck whenever […]

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