John D. Thomas' purposefully minimalist homepage

WRITER / EDITOR / MANAGER / PRODUCER / TEACHER

Work samples:

* New York Times article on the historic all-black towns of Oklahoma

* New York Times article on international constitutions

* New York Times article on the Weather Channel's "weather porn"

* New York Times article on world's longest running radio drama

* Playboy magazine article on the history of conjugal visitation

* Playboy magazine interview with Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka

* Chicago Tribune Op/Ed on being mugged on the Mag Mile

* Chicago Tribune Op/Ed on spitting on the sidewalk

* Chicago Tribune interview with Ralph Nader

* Reviews from the New York Times Book Review

* Playboy.com documentary I directed on a Hollywood Blvd celebrity impostor

* Clips from the Playboy.com Ask Hef Anything series I produced and directed

* Playboy.com Interview with Al Sharpton

* My essay from The Columbia University Press Companion to American History on Film

* Playboy magazine feature on state-sponsored Death Row web sites

* Playboy magazine feature on international public executions

* My essays for the Center for Digital Ethics & Policy at Loyola University

* Examples of my Op/Eds from Modern Healthcare magazine

* Playboy magazine feature on religious views on sex

* Chicago Tribune analysis of the solo careers of the Rolling Stones

* Village Voice feature on flying in an aerial advertising byplane

* Clip from The Big Swim, a Discovery Channel doc on which I was expert commentator

* Syllabus from my Columbia College Reviewing the Arts class

* Clip from ABC News profile of me as having one of Chicago's best jobs

* A more complete list of my work from NY times, Playboy, Chicago Tribune, Village Voice and Atlanta Journal-Constitution