{"id":146,"date":"2020-04-25T14:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T21:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelzuzel.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2025-01-13T10:20:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:20:38","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelzuzel.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was a print journalist for more than 20 years, writing about government, politics, education, health care, music, the arts, and personalities. For a decade after that, I was a speechwriter and directed communications for a large Northwest city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now I write what I want. It&#8217;s a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">BOOKS<\/h5>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alibris.com\/Beyond-Argument-a-Handbook-for-Editorial-Writers-Writers\/book\/-97075760\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-321\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelzuzel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/beyondargumentframed.jpg?resize=205%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelzuzel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/beyondargumentframed.jpg?resize=205%2C300&amp;ssl=1 205w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelzuzel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/beyondargumentframed.jpg?w=452&amp;ssl=1 452w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alibris.com\/Beyond-Argument-a-Handbook-for-Editorial-Writers-Writers\/book\/-97075760\">Beyond Argument: A Handbook for Editorial Writers<\/a><\/em> (Editor, with Maura Casey)<\/li>\n<li><i>Sunday Specials: Classic and Contemporary Cocktails for Every Weekend of the Year<\/i> (forthcoming)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\">ARTICLES AND PROJECTS<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@michaelrenezuzel\/columbos-biggest-mystery-42189e91556f\">Columbo\u2019s Biggest Mystery: Why was such a memorable character trapped in so many forgettable stories?<\/a> (Medium)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/kuku-club\">KuKu Club, Tallinn, Estonia: An underground nightclub helped spark a &#8220;Singing Revolution&#8221;<\/a> (Atlas Obscura)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/p\/a-song-for-sugihara-512e14e0dbb6?source=email-c7611de8764--writer.postDistributed&amp;sk=f617f630847bd4b2fb10967f79340b61\">A Song for Sugihara: No one is certain why a Japanese diplomat risked his life to save thousands of Jews during World War II. Eight decades later, a choir from the USA attempted to solve the mystery with music<\/a> (Medium)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@michaelrenezuzel\/making-a-presentation-heres-what-bruce-springsteen-can-teach-you-b6b34cab681b?source=friends_link&amp;sk=1c7e1e24c7a7ea1795a2c31676054e59\">Making a presentation? Here\u2019s what Bruce Springsteen can teach you<\/a>\u00a0(Medium)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@michaelrenezuzel\/soup-in-summer-and-a-presidents-fall-c0e8a3def86d\">Soup in Summer and a President\u2019s Fall<\/a>\u00a0(Medium)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressive.org\/news\/2014\/05\/187700\/marriage-equality-takes-few-more-steps-forward\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marriage Equality Takes a Few More Steps Forward<\/a>\u00a0(Progressive Media Project)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few words about my writing background and links to my recent work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/michaelzuzel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/keyboard.jpg?fit=2500%2C1875&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelzuzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelzuzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelzuzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzuzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzuzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzuzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzuzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzuzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelzuzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzuzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelzuzel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}