Thomas Leclair | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:25:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 The Locus https://www.thesmartset.com/the-locus/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-locus https://www.thesmartset.com/the-locus/#respond Mon, 24 Apr 2023 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=60166 In Nathanael West’s Hollywood novel, Day of the Locust, the protagonist believes the people he observes “come to California to die.” I came at age 78 to live. After 12 years in Brooklyn, I had spent tenuous parts of the last two years in Athens, Warsaw, and London. In those cities, I had two problems that […]

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