The Believer Magazine
My Own Private
Shock Corridor
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Bob Schneider is a recovering screenwriter and a compulsive footnoter.1 He has a row house in Brooklyn near a park and a subway but rarely leaves the basement. He likes movies, hockey, tacos, and flying business class. He has one wife, two kids, and a bank account in the mid-three figures.
1Though he has nothing to add here, he believes form demands a footnote.
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March 2, 2015My Own Private Shock Corridor: Dove Dumps and Hooch Zombies
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January 15, 2015My Own Private Shock Corridor: My Myth of the Myth of Onan
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December 11, 2014My Own Private Shock Corridor: Blurt Happens: The Ten-Second Rule
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November 19, 2014My Own Private Shock Corridor: The Birth of Nihilism and the Vaporization of Morals
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October 29, 2014My Own Private Shock Corridor: Form Contra Content
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September 24, 2014My Own Private Shock Corridor: Chance is a Fool’s Name for Fate, Part 4: She Walks into Mine
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September 9, 2014My Own Private Shock Corridor: Chance is the Fool’s Name for Fate, Parts 2 and 3.
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August 14, 2014My Own Private Shock Corridor: Chance is the Fool’s Name for Fate, Part 1: Of All the Gin Joints…
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July 24, 2014My Own Private Shock Corridor: My Own Private Shock Corridor.
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July 9, 2014My Own Private Shock Corridor: Exile in Goyville, Part 2
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June 19, 2014My Own Private Shock Corridor: Exile in Goyville, Part 1
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