Fred J Schneider

Born and raised on Long Island back when the air squeaked and the trees were filled with ticks, curmudgeon and humorist Fred J Schneider resides now in upstate New York, where sadly no one knows enough to order a breakfast special.

A former humor essayist on Public Radio, and a two-time invitee/attendee to Colgate University's Summer Novel Intensive Program, Fred is currently planning for the release of his second novel, LAST STOP RONKONKOMA (October, 2019 Glimmerglass Publishing Co). Last Stop Ronkonkoma is a disoriented Catholic's coming of age story written for people with hearts large enough to loathe the New York Yankees. So if you're Catholic, something other than a Yankees fan, or know anyone who is...

Fred's are stories that hold little sacred, told by characters standing on one bad foot, always teetering, always a wet-spot-on-the-floor away from face-planting into the Linoleum.

Some find them funny, yet (curiously) profound. Others find them deep, yet at the same time naturally meaningless. Fred's only hope is that you find them, and read them, and read them aloud, and to other people, and then that you buy them for everyone you know, and they do the same. And in that way, you and Fred can change the world together, and wouldn't that be nice.

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