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