R. Eric Thomas (original) (raw)

I’m a television writer (Dickinson on AppleTV+, Better Things on FX), playwright, and the national bestselling author of Here For It, or, How to Save Your Soul in America, a Read with Jenna club pick as featured on Today, Reclaiming Her Time: The Power of Maxine Waters (with Helena Andrews-Dyer), and the YA novel Kings of B’More, a 2023 Stonewall Honor book. Latest: Congratulations, The Best Is Over!, an instant USA Today Bestseller.

I also write the daily, nationally syndicated advice column Asking Eric and send out a weekly a humor newsletter that has been touted on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour. Previously, I doled out advice as an interim Prudie for Slate.com’s popular advice column Dear Prudence and wrote a daily pop culture and politics-focused humor column for Elle.com called “Eric Reads the News”!

I’ve been heard on The Moth Radio Hour, NPR’s Fresh Air, It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders, All Things Considered, and Pop Culture Happy Hour, as well as a host of podcasts. I’m also the the long-running host of The Moth StorySlams in Philadelphia.

My writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Time, W Magazine, O the Oprah Magazine, Slate, and more.

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