Skip to content
the smart set

Author: Paul Crenshaw

Paul Crenshaw is the author of the essay collections This One Will Hurt YouThis One Will Hurt You, published by The Ohio State University Press, and This We'll Defend, from the University of North Carolina Press. Other work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Pushcart Prize, Oxford American, Glimmer Train, and Tin House. Follow him on Twitter @PaulCrenstorm. @PaulCrenstorm
§

06/15/2020

Breakdown

When hip hop came to Arkansas

by Paul Crenshaw

§

03/18/2019

The Princess is in Another Castle

Gaming’s savior complex

by Paul Crenshaw

§

10/22/2018

Watching the Skies

When Star Wars hits too close to home

by Paul Crenshaw

§

04/12/2018

Are You There God? It’s Me, Crenshaw.

“[I]f we are only trying to relate to ourselves, we have lost.”

by Paul Crenshaw

§
  • Support the Smart Set
  • Submissions
  • Contributors
  • Contact Us

the smart set is an online magazine covering culture and ideas, arts and science, global and national affairs- everything from literature to shopping, medicine to sports, philosophy to food. The Smart Set strives to present big ideas on the small, the not-so small, and the everyday. >>

The Smart Set is published and supported by the Pennoni Honors College at Drexel University. Learn more about PHC >>

Subscribe

Get our latest stories in your inbox, weekly

follow us:

or try…

advice animals art book review books childhood comics cooking culture death family feminism film food gender health history language life literature love money movies museums music nature painting philadelphia philosophy photography poetry politics race reading religion science sex technology television travel war women writing
  • Conversations
  • Ideas
    Like a headache, with pictures.
  • Journeys
  • Archive