More Schoneboomery
Surrealpolitik: More than a site dedicated to the book of the same name, it's a searchable repository of amazing quotes related to delusion, reality, and the symbolic order.
Magic Stories: A unique digital platform for reading and creating highly randomized (yet not arbitrary) stories that are (probably) never the same twice. Go on. Try it out.
Bratum Books: Publisher of the Uncommonalities series of short story collections bound by a common first line.
Bonkworld: Stop it. Bonk is a cartoon sound effect, not a dirty word. Lots of interactivity and japes, not entirely unliterary, occasionally informative. A rarely updated playground for me and a co-conspirator or two.
Wossafocken Point: What indeed?
The Books
What do you do with disinformation when it's an emergency, but you live in a democracy that supposedly values debate and dissent? more
Reality and delusion collide in this hilariously tragic story about one family's absurd secrets and the dreams they hide. more
Surrealpolitik takes up cultural theorist Mark Fisher's challenge to expose capitalist realism's 'realism' as nothing of the sort. more
Fontoon is an archetypal Dedalus novel: absurdly funny, erudite, grotesquely surreal, and totally unique. more
Ranging from the hilarious to the heartbreaking, these brief beauties all start with the word Nobody. more
"Eventually I started to get tired of waiting" -- a line that was plucked from the middle of a short story by César Aira. more
It's Volume III of Uncommonalities, Bratum Books' series of uncommon short stories with a common first line (and/or other shared elements). more
"It would've been bad enough without the..." more
Eleven short stories begin together and then go in eleven different directions with eleven different authors. more
About the Author
John Schoneboom is an award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction, and plays. His work usually has something to do with fungible realities constructed out of unreliable perceptions. It's usually good for a few laughs.
