Marek Makowski | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:52:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Toilets, Papers, Cardboard Boxes of a Country’s Secrets https://www.thesmartset.com/toilets-papers-cardboard-boxes-of-a-countrys-secrets/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toilets-papers-cardboard-boxes-of-a-countrys-secrets https://www.thesmartset.com/toilets-papers-cardboard-boxes-of-a-countrys-secrets/#comments Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=62451 When the details of former president Trump’s first indictment scandalized the public last June, the most shocking revelations must have been the photos themselves. The 49-page indictment included six photos depicting cardboard boxes of classified material stored in unsecured locations at Mar-a-Lago: stacked on the stage of a ballroom and in storage rooms, tipped over […]

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Yu-Gi-Oh! and Us  https://www.thesmartset.com/yu-gi-oh-and-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=yu-gi-oh-and-us https://www.thesmartset.com/yu-gi-oh-and-us/#respond Thu, 28 Jul 2022 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=58099 The first time in my life I felt summoned to something — before writing, before love — I received an invitation to the Duelist Kingdom. It arrived in the mail: a VHS tape and letter from Maximillian Pegasus, CEO of Industrial Illusions. In the video the cartoon man appears in a red double-breasted suit, standing […]

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Asking What’s Real and What’s Not https://www.thesmartset.com/asking-whats-real-and-whats-not/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=asking-whats-real-and-whats-not https://www.thesmartset.com/asking-whats-real-and-whats-not/#respond Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:48:24 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=57259 When I discovered her work, I was searching for a different Madeleine Gross. The days of lockdown wearied me; I lay in bed, at night or during the afternoon or morning (time was unbroken and the same), swiping to find how others had changed. I sought one of my many now-anonymous former coworkers from a […]

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Who Are the Writers Now? https://www.thesmartset.com/who-are-the-writers-now/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-are-the-writers-now https://www.thesmartset.com/who-are-the-writers-now/#respond Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=54096 In 2017 I entered the PhD program at UW-Madison because they would pay me to read and secretly I could use most of that time to write. I felt I had wasted the previous year working at a restaurant to pay off loans — not reading, not writing. I had squandered my prose style, I […]

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Pancake’s Haunts https://www.thesmartset.com/pancakes-haunts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pancakes-haunts https://www.thesmartset.com/pancakes-haunts/#respond Mon, 07 Dec 2020 12:36:12 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=52260 I first heard of Breece D’J Pancake in a small pizzeria an hour west of Chicago. I had not been tending the bar that summer night, but Rae was, and when I came in to pick up a pizza she said to the lone man at the counter, writing, he does writing, and she called to me from behind the bar, saying, Honey, honey, O, honey, you […]

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