Chris Orlet | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Fri, 11 Aug 2023 15:50:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 My Sister’s Bookshelf https://www.thesmartset.com/my-sisters-bookshelf/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-sisters-bookshelf https://www.thesmartset.com/my-sisters-bookshelf/#respond Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=61231 Throughout the long-gone days of my childhood a thick, worn paperback sat on top of the lid of the tank of our upstairs toilet. Wilt, a biography of Wilt Chamberlain, the Hall of Fame center for the Los Angeles Lakers. My father had checked out the book on the only trip he ever took as […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/my-sisters-bookshelf/feed/ 0 Charlie Simpson’s Apocalypse https://www.thesmartset.com/charlie-simpsons-apocalypse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=charlie-simpsons-apocalypse https://www.thesmartset.com/charlie-simpsons-apocalypse/#respond Fri, 23 Jun 2017 11:30:18 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=15260 Among the overlooked gems of the influential but short-lived genre known as New Journalism is the curious account of the violent conflict between a small band of country hippies and local businessmen in rural Missouri in the spring of 1972. Uniquely evocative of its era, Charlie Simpson’s Apocalypse by Joe Eszterhas is set in the […]

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