Zippo

The Zippo Museum in Bradford, PA and Zippo Sightings in Literature

The Zippo Museum in Bradford, PA and Zippo Sightings in Literature

I admire a story the way I admire a Zippo lighter—perfectly, even simply engineered to do what is required to do, with nothing extra tacked on.  I’m thinking of an unadorned lighter here, simple brushed steel, not one with a Harley Davidson logo on the side.  Wick, flint, wind guard, lighter fluid, cover, period.  It…