Tom Soter

Tom Soter is a writer, editor, and improv teacher. He has written for Entertainment Weekly, Diversion, Backstage, The New York Observer, Empire, and countless other magazines and newspapers. He was the managing editor of Firehouse magazine from 1978 to 1981, and since 1982, he has been an editor at Habitat magazine, the definitive publication for boards of cooperatives and condominiums in New York City. His books include Bond and Beyond: 007 and Other Special Agents (1993), a study of spy movies and television programs; Investigating Couples: An Analysis of The Thin Man, The Avengers, and The X-Files (2002); Some Thoughts and Some Photos, a memoir (2009); five volumes of memoirs and assorted other writing: Overheard on a Bus (2014), Disappearing Act (2015), Bed Bugs, Biondi & Me (2015), Driving Me Crazy (2015), You Should Get a Cat (2016), and Woman in Heels (2017); A Doctor and a Plumber In a Rowboat: The Essential Guide to Improvisation (2015), co-authored with Carol Schindler; Look at Them Now (2016), a collection of short fiction co-authored with Alan Saly, Tom Sinclair and Christian Doherty; and The Whole Catastrophe, an autobiography/memoir co-authored with George Soter. He currently produces and performs in the Sunday Night Improv comedy jam, which he has run since 1993, and has been teaching improv since 1987. He lives in New York City.