Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Somi and the microphone at her concert in Basel on 23 March 2024

Pale young woman with long brown hair at the supermarket

Remembering reading Isak Dinesen’s “The Blank Page” (1957) and teaching it today

Holiday sauce, the Easy Bunny, and our familect

“Working Class Heroes”: From Stephen Blackpool in Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times” (1854) to John Lennon and then to Angelo Herndon

Taylor Swift, “the sin of wit”, and an “erroneous attribution"