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Portfolio

Tom’s Books:

  • The Most Famous Writer Who Ever Lived (coming fall, 2016)

  • Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal 

  • Washington Post review of Acid Test
  • Fire on the Horizon

  • LA Times Review of Fire on the Horizon
  • NY Review of Books Review of Fire on the Horizon
  • Old Souls (over 100.000 copies in print)

  • Recent Review of Old Souls

  • The Hunt for Bin Laden

  • Seeing the Light

Tom’s Articles:

  • Net Gain
  • The Peace Drug
  • Murdering My Piano
  • A Spanish Christmas
  • Lost in Ten Thousand Islands

Tom’s Editing:

-Books

Nonfiction:

      • Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers 
      • Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time, by Brigid Schulte
      • 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)
      • Love in the Driest Season, by Neeley Tucker
      • Bordering on Chaos, by Andres Oppenheimer
      • Castro’s Final Hour, by Andres Oppenheimer

Fiction:

  • Nothing Happens Until it Happens to You (Florida Book Award winner), by T.M. Shine
  • Dueling in Death’s Backyard, by Thomas Jay Berger

 

 

 

 

– 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)
      • Happy Boothday to You
      • Marley vs. Rudolph

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.

Hijacking the Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing the Spotlight from Fashion Designers

News Flash

Twenty-five years after Old Souls original publication a brand new Spanish translation has been published by Errata Naturae Editores in Madrid.  As a result, I’ve been doing interviews with Spanish media, including the country’s largest newspaper El Mundo. Their reporter sent me a list of excellent questions. Here they are with my responses:     […]

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Latest Blog Entry…

Tom Shroder, Guru

I just sat for the oddest interview I’ve ever given as part of the roll out of the new Spanish edition of Old Souls (Almas Ancestrales, they are calling it). The questions from El Diario seemed to presume that I had some special knowledge about the ultimate nature of reality and the nature of God […]

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