Thomas M.

I specialize in creative nonfiction with an emphasis on music and the culinary arts. I have contributed to Tasting Table, Daily Meal, Longreads, Al Jazeera America, Salon, Slate, Oxford American, The Bitter Southerner, Tape Op, and AARP Magazine, among others. I am a faculty member of the North Carolina Writers Guild and a contributor to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. I am also the author of two books for Hachette Book Group: Dance This Mess Around: We Are the B-5 2 s for Da Capo Press and A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene 1989 - 1999 , published on April 9 , 2024 .