Tobias Carroll

201 Java Street #2, Brooklyn, NY
Website: http://www.twitter.com/tobiascarroll

Professional Experience

As a freelancer, I've written about everything from craft whiskey in the Pacific Northwest to lost utopias in New Jersey. I've written extensively about books and music for a variety of publications. In addition, I've also done some copywriting for record labels and travel websites.

Total Media Industry Experience

15 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Men\\\'s Journal (10+), Rolling Stone (6-10), Hazlitt (10+), Literary Hub (10+), Paper (1-2), StarTribune (10+), Paste (10+), Signature (10+), OZY (6-10), Bookforum (1-2), Atlas Obscura (1-2)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Reward Expert (10+), Hardly Art (1-2), Secretly Group (1-2)

Other Work History

Managing editor, Vol.1 Brooklyn

Technical Skills

Experience with MailChimp campaigns.

Computer Skills

WordPress; some front-end web development.

General

The Rise of West Coast Whiskey
(Men's Journal 11/10/2015)
A look at several craft distilleries making innovative whiskey in the Pacific Northwest.
Utopia
(Atlas Obscura 11/16/2015)
In this article, I delved into the history of a 19th-century utopian community with an unexpected connection to 20th-century literature.
The Surreal Life
(The Paris Review 8/14/2013)
Leonora Carrington is an acclaimed Surrealist artist, best known for the visual art that she created over the course of her life. But she also spent much of her life writing; in this piece, I explored a lesser-known side of her creative work.
Playing the Book, Reading the Game
(Hazlitt 9/15/2015)
As the stories of video games become more and more ornate, how have they affected the way that we read (and write) fiction?
The Conspiracy Against a Good Night\'s Sleep
(Hazlitt 10/29/2015)
What does the increased popularity of cosmic horror, and its influence on shows like TRUE DETECTIVE, signify about culture and our collective anxieties?
From Canada: A Highbrow Book About Talking Dogs
(OZY 7/16/2015)
A profile of the acclaimed Canadian writer André Alexis.