Zinoman began his career at Time Out New York, where he became the theater editor in 2001.
After writing freelance stories for The New York Times, he was hired to become the On Stage and Off theater columnist in 2003.
[1] In 2011, he became the comedy critic for The New York Times, a newly created position,[2] and, two years later, he published "Searching for Dave Chappelle", a Kindle single about comedian Dave Chappelle's retreat from public life.
[3] In 2010, he recapped the third season of the HBO series True Blood for Slate and argued that the series might not be getting the critical attention it deserved because of an "old elite snobbishness toward lowbrow genres.
"[4] In 2011, he published the non-fiction book Shock Value, which describes how horror films changed in the late 1960s to become more brutal, realistic, and auteur-driven, as opposed to the older, campier films based on Gothic melodrama.