Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

An afternoon listening to Beethoven's symphonies

Doris Lessing's "The Golden Notebook" between Vermeer and Matisse, Dickens and Joyce, Socialist Realism and Abstract Expressionism

"Bohemian Rhapsody", Queen, Live Aid, and The Grateful Dead at Ventura County Fairgrounds, 13 July 1985

Disability as metaphor in Denise Levertov

"Writing down what life dictated": The second-person narrator in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Thing Around Your Neck"

An amusing typo – but is it really a typo?