{"product_id":"the-writer-who-stayed-9781589880801","title":"The Writer Who Stayed","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdapted from \"Zinsser on Friday,\" \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e's National Magazine Award-Winning Essay Series\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor nineteen months William Zinsser, author of the best-selling \u003ci\u003eOn Writing Well\u003c\/i\u003e and many other books, wrote a weekly column for the website of the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. This cornucopia was devoted mainly to culture and the arts, the craft of writing, and travels to remote places, along with the movies, American popular song, email, multitasking, baseball, Central Park, Tina Brown, Pauline Kael, Steve Martin, and other complications of modern life. Written with elegance and humor, these pieces are now collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Writer Who Stayed\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you value vintage journalism of an old-fashioned vividness and integrity please, please read this book.\"--\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Our 'endlessly supple' English language will, Zinsser says, 'do anything you ask it to do, if you treat it well. Try it and see.' Try him and see craftsmanship.\"--George F. Will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Zinsser--who, with \u003ci\u003eOn Writing Well\u003c\/i\u003e, taught a whole lot of us how to set down a clean English sentence--last year won a National Magazine Award for his Friday web columns in \u003ci\u003eThe American Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e. They're now in a collection that's completely charming, impeccably polished, and Strunk-and-White-ishly brief. He's the youngest 90-year-old you'll read this week.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Zinsser\u003c\/b\u003e is a lifelong journalist and nonfiction writer--he began his career on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e in 1946--and is also a teacher, best known for his book \u003ci\u003eOn Writing Well\u003c\/i\u003e, a companion held in affection by three generations of writers, reporters, editors, teachers, and students. His 17 other books range from memoir (\u003ci\u003eWriting Places\u003c\/i\u003e) to travel (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Places\u003c\/i\u003e), jazz (\u003ci\u003eMitchell \u0026amp; Ruff\u003c\/i\u003e), American popular song (\u003ci\u003eEasy to Remember\u003c\/i\u003e), baseball (\u003ci\u003eSpring Training\u003c\/i\u003e) and the craft of writing (\u003ci\u003eWriting to Learn\u003c\/i\u003e). During the 1970s he was at Yale University, where he was master of Branford College and taught the influential nonfiction workshop that would start many writers and editors on their careers. He has taught at the New School, in New York, his hometown, and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Zinsser\u003c\/b\u003e is a lifelong journalist and nonfiction writer--he began his career on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e in 1946--and is also a teacher, best known for his book \u003ci\u003eOn Writing Well\u003c\/i\u003e, a companion held in affection by three generations of writers, reporters, editors, teachers, and students. His 17 other books range from memoir (\u003ci\u003eWriting Places\u003c\/i\u003e) to travel (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Places\u003c\/i\u003e), jazz (\u003ci\u003eMitchell \u0026amp; Ruff\u003c\/i\u003e), American popular song (\u003ci\u003eEasy to Remember\u003c\/i\u003e), baseball (\u003ci\u003eSpring Training\u003c\/i\u003e) and the craft of writing (\u003ci\u003eWriting to Learn\u003c\/i\u003e). During the 1970s he was at Yale University, where he was master of Branford College and taught the influential nonfiction workshop that would start many writers and editors on their careers. He has taught at the New School, in New York, his hometown, and at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Paul Dry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50855848083730,"sku":"9781589880801","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6242fbb6-c36b-4db4-bb3c-8d5de1877757.jpg?v=1737485917","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-writer-who-stayed-9781589880801","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}