Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

"Thomas Mann, Ezra Pound, Riffaterre, and 501": Jean Alter, the courses I took in the Spring Semester 1989, and why I took them

Idlewild in Nella Larsen's "Passing"

The date and the spans of time mentioned and implied in the first paragraph of Toni Morrison's "Beloved"

124 and the numbers in the first paragraph of Toni Morrison's "Beloved"

"Estamos? – Estamos": Figuring out a Spanish expression with Daniel Sánchez Arévalo's "Diecisiete" ("Seventeen")

Touching ice and snow and finding it hot