Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Turning a writing tip into an experiment

Women sharing secrets in Adrienne Rich and Doris Lessing

Singing McCartney on his birthday

Denise Levertov dancing to "Workingman's Dead"

Bull crit with Flaubert, Joyce, and Dostoevsky

Coming out of "Ice Age 2" with a six-year-old after nightfall