Books | The Smart Set https://www.thesmartset.com A magazine of arts & culture from Drexel University Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:28:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 Don’t Sing, Scarf, or Spit https://www.thesmartset.com/dont-sing-scarf-or-spit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-sing-scarf-or-spit https://www.thesmartset.com/dont-sing-scarf-or-spit/#respond Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:28:17 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64367 Culture, if we can still call it that, has taken a definite downward turn in the last couple of decades. Tee shirts with I HATE YOUR F—ING MASK (the F word spelled out) printed in large letters on the front. Texting at the dinner table. Parents using profanity to children. Being honked and tailgated while […]

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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/dont-sing-scarf-or-spit/feed/ 0 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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]]> https://www.thesmartset.com/town-and-country/feed/ 0 Daisy Goodwill and the Montana Rockies  https://www.thesmartset.com/daisy-goodwill-and-the-montana-rockies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=daisy-goodwill-and-the-montana-rockies https://www.thesmartset.com/daisy-goodwill-and-the-montana-rockies/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:30:00 +0000 https://www.thesmartset.com/?p=64245 I remember a lake rimmed with lily pads; a meadow filled with sun. The uphill stretch of trail where I stepped round a bend and came eyeball to eyeball with a mountain goat. Now, the goat may have been a bighorn sheep. It wasn’t the curve of the horns, so much, or the softness of […]

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