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

• 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