Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The correlation between popularity and quality in popular music

The Pablo Held Trio at the Bird’s Eye in Basel on 1 March 2024

“A lot of spaces” between Taylor Swift and James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake”

A metrosexual Swiftie

The difficult but rewarding narrative promised by the opening of Kazuo Ishiguro’s “An Artist of the Floating World” (1986)

Weaknesses for the sake of the despicable in “Great Expectations” (1861) and in my own life