Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

An interview about my language history, two decades ago

"Loving small" and "what's left to love" in Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and "Jazz"

How critics have talked about the anonymous, ungendered narrator of Toni Morrison's "Jazz"

On not watching Manchester City and Liverpool

The Readjuster Party in Toni Morrison's "Jazz"

Bette Davis in James Baldwin and Gwendolyn Brooks