Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

People "whose papers are wrong" in Charles Dickens's "Little Dorrit" (1857)

Michael Bully Herbig, "Buddy", and "Tausende Zeilen"

Remembering the art criticism of Peter Schjeldahl (1942-2022)

Songs and poems written in ballad form about highly publicized events: Silverstein, Dylan, Randall, Young, and Lightfoot

"A woman talks on the phone": A phrase that made me stumble in a 2004 poem by Adrienne Rich

The dynamics of the speech of a German television football commentator