Caroline Schnapp's blog

I am in the Netherlands. I am, with other European and American tourists, staying at this hotel with old elevators and heavy curtains at every window that let very little light in. Read more →

For me, there’s only one decent way to analyze literature : pick up a book you love, copy all passages that you’ve bookmarked or underlined, and explain why you bookmarked or underlined these passages. Read more →

“I am always there. I am always helping. I never leave you. Read more →

I used to play this game to sort out my feelings. Sometimes, I don’t find it easy to know what I want. Here’s the game : I would imagine a funny character called Satan that would sit in the right corner of the room, and he would engage me in a conversation.  Read more →

Reach for the stars. Read more →

You get it out of the box and plug it in. You gauge or seize its complexity — for a little while. Then you open the owner’s manual and read. Read more →

In an effort to write 10 posts today, as I have made this day a write-10-posts-day event for myself, let me tell you about the dream I had a couple of weeks ago. Read more →

I am not updating this site nearly as often as I should. And I know why.  Read more →

The story was published in cyber-magazine Salon.com eight years ago. The author, Daniel Stern, was a creative writing student at New School for Social Research in New York. I wish I knew what happened to him. I very much liked his short story. And, yes, I am too, like Stern’s narrator, a fan of Kurt Vonnegut. Read more →