The Best of The Smart Set
The most popular The Smart Set articles, as voted by our community.
THE SMART SET is an online literary magazine specializing in nonfiction sponsored by Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University.
The Smart Set on Books
The Status of the Book in the Age of Digital Media
Park Avenue was festooned with tulips as we looked for parking on our way to the 62nd annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. The Fair was bei
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The Senior Song Book
In 2014 my wife Dorothy and I — tired of snowdrifts, leaky roofs, and steep stairs — moved to Beaumont at Bryn Mawr, a retirement community owned by its re
The Strange Afterlife of the Vikings
Adapted from Brunner's new book, Extreme North – A Cultural History When Geneva historian Paul Henri Mallet began to publish Old Norse tales
Bodies and Souls, Sophisticated Ladies, and Plucked Strings
I think we all have moments where we wonder what it was like to be our favorite musicians, hearing what they heard, thinking their thoughts, seeing what played
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