Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

A class discussion of N. K. Jemisin's "L'Alchimista" and the aesthetics of Immanuel Kant's "Kritik der Urteilskraft" and T. S. Eliot's "Tradition and the Individual Talent"

The "slaughter of American literature" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise" (1920)

Bob Weir, Josh Kaufman, and Taylor Swift: A record that could have been great

A 111-word visit from "el gnomo"

El gnomo, el espectro y los ciudadanos del mundo

Fred Hersch in Basel, 13 October 2026, with Drew Gress and Jochen Rückert