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Read a profile of William Zinsser in the New York Times

George Will's Washington Post column on The Writer Who Stayed, "William Zinsser and good writing as art"

"Zinsser—who, with On Writing Well, 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 The American Scholar. 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."—New York Magazine on The Writer Who Stayed

"On Writing Well and Other Joys": The Wall Street Journal reviews The Writer Who Stayed by William Zinsser

Gary Borjesson, author of Willing Dogs, now has a blog: Idle Speculations.

"This is the kind of book you'll want to suggest to your dog lover's book club...sure to stir up heated debates about all things dog."—Willing Dogs reviewed at Fit as Fido

"The idea of the classic newspaperman is fading into the mists of time, as nonfiction becomes, for many purveyors, more about grabbing attention than in-depth writing. Luckily, William Zinsser is still among us; in The Writer Who Stayed, he applies his skills, and the art of the essay, to past and modern eras alike."— ForeWord reviews The Writer Who Stayed

Vlad Todorov, author of Zift, is participated in a conference at the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation.

A 7th-grade student reviews Round & Round Together on Book Trends

TV segment with Amy Nathan, 12/15/2011, Girl on Merry-Go-Round Became Symbol of Civil Rights Struggle

"What History Can Teach the Occupiers: A Review of Round & Round Together" at The Pirate Tree

Strange Relation reviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Times Literary Supplement, and House of the Seven Tails.

Read "Tacking; or, a Zigzag Course Toward a Point" by Paul Dry

In the New York Review of Books, Malise Ruthven reviews The Other Side of the Mirror and writes about the state of Syria today. [link]

Listen to Brooke Allen's interview on The Leonard Lopate Show [link].

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