Best of Zinsser

Previous posts

• Flunking Description
• Stardust Memories
• Writing for the Wrong Reasons
• Me and My Relationships
• Blondie and Dilbert
• The Last Word
• Envoi
• The Overtone Years
• Looking for a Model
• The Writer Who Stayed
• Thanksgiving Day Repainted
• The Perils of Pauline Kael
• Brother, Can You Spare a Job?
• Hats Off
• Nowhere People
• Dancing With Scrolls
• Hold the Emotion!
• “Who Would Care About My Story?”
• No Place Like “Home”
• Flunking Description
• Improving a Masterpiece
• Peter McGuire's Holiday
• No Degrees of Separation
• The ‘A’ Word
• Summer House Books
• On the Trail of Sublime
• Unexpected Visitors
• How to Get to Our House
• The Last of the Lone Wanderers
• Me and My Relationships
• Baseball Without Myths
• Writing for the Wrong Reasons
• In Memoriam
• Central Park Lite
• No Last Names
• Trapped by the Past
• Once Around the Sun
• Easter Light
• Content Management
• Prisoners of Britspeak
• A Cousin from Cologne
• In Bed by the Last Eight
• The 300-Word Challenge
• Working for Tina Brown
• Looking Forward, Looking Back
• The Right to Write
• Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln
• No Second Act
• Stardust Memories
• Goodbye and Don’t Come Back
• E-Maledictions
• Blondie and Dilbert
• Obama and the Lac Bug
• A Christmas Dinner
• Stopping Steve Martin
• Yes, But
• “Bring Back Boredom!”
• Tales of ‘South Pacific’
• Home for Thanksgiving
• On the Trail of the Chêng Ho
• Tips
• The Revenge of the Comic Novel
• Crash Through That Line of Blue!
• An Interesting Life
• Fantasia for the Left Hand
• Men of Letters
• Out of Order
• Singing Along With Mitch
• One Man's Library
• Where Did the Summer Go?
• The Grand Tour
• Literate Revelry
• Detour Ahead
• Mark Twain’s Hannibal
• Sacred Objects
• Family Albums
• Stevenson's Ghost
• Like a Mighty Stream
• What Does It Do?
• Melville’s South Seas Myth
• Life and Work
• The Old Flotilla
• Permission Givers
• At Ease in the Stone Age
• Rescued by Humor
• A Joyful Noise
• Sharing the Issues
• Simple Geometry