Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Abbie Crunch watches from the window in Ann Petry's "The Narrows"

The labor of preparing turkeys and quail in James Baldwin and Toni Morrison

The "sho 'nough race riot" in Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"

"A dazzling sharp glass case of sharp instruments": Abortion in John Dos Passos's "Manhattan Transfer"

The John Zorn day at the Willisau Jazz Festival in 2016

Marc Ribot concerts I have attended from 1987 to 2022