The Smart Set (Fiction: 1913-1923): A Modern Times Anthology

There was a time when the writing in The Smart Set set the tone for the social and cultural debates of the period. Founded in 1900 as a magazine for New York's upper classes, The Smart Set became a venue for the literary avant-garde in 1913 under the editorship of Willard Huntington Wright. His his year-long tenure introduced a new level of quality, maintained and developed by his successors, co-editors H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan-who turned The Smart Set into a cultural force unli...