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Portfolio

Tom’s Books:

  • Old Souls (over 100.000 copies in print)
  • Recent Review of Old Souls
  • Fire on the Horizon

  • LA Times Review of Fire on the Horizon
  • The Hunt for Bin Laden

  • Seeing the Light

Tom’s Articles:

  • Net Gain
  • The Peace Drug
  • Murdering My Piano

Tom’s Editing:

-Books

      • Top Secret America (New York Times Bestseller), by Dana Priest and Bill Arkin
      • All the Justice Money Can Buy, by Snigdha Prakash
      • Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery, by Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz
      • Naked Came the Manatee, by Carl Hiaasen et al  (New York Times Bestseller)
      • Nothing Happens Until it Happens to You (Florida Book Award winner), by T.M. Shine
      • Love in the Driest Season, by Neeley Tucker
      • Bordering on Chaos, by Andres Oppenheimer
      • Castro’s Final Hour, by Andres Oppenheimer

- Sample Articles

      • Pearls Before Breakfast (2008 Pulitzer Prize)
      • Fatal Distraction (2010 Pulitzer Prize)
      • Deadly Force
      • Terminated
      • The Face of Shakespeare
      • The Jonestown Massacre, 30th Anniversary (edited on deadline)

Discussions

      • Tom discussing the future of narrative on the Nieman Foundation Story Board
      • Tom talking about his career and editing philosophy at The Washington Post Magazine.
      • Tom, Dave and Gene talking about the Post Hunt
      • The Nieman Foundation Editor’s Roundtable

Indy rock inspired by Tom Shroder

    • Listen to a sample of Tom Shroder’s Blues, by the Gena Rowland’s band.

News Flash

In the “Why is this so good?” feature of the Nieman Storyboard, Megan Greenwell, Managing Editor of GOOD Magazine, lionizes Sally Jenkins and the wonderful piece she wrote on Kwame Brown for The Washington Post Magazine back in the day (2002 — JAYSUS! it was a decade ago!) I especially love the last lines, an [...]

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Latest Blog Entry…

Is Storytelling Unmanly?

Great blog in the Times today about Lincoln’s storytelling prowess: “Count Adam Gurowski, a Polish exile who worked in the State Department, observed, ‘In the midst of the most stirring and exciting — nay, death-giving — news, Mr. Lincoln has always a story to tell.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson found it delightful:’When he has made his [...]

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