Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Manvir Singh's figure of “the triumphant orphan”: Oliver Twist and Jane Eyre, but surely not Pip

The kids sat in the park

Small venues with Sun Ra in 1986 and Fabio Gouvea in 2026

“A Trip to the Moon” (1902), by Georges Méliés, and the Apollo program

“Hallucination, cauchman, ectoplasm” (“Finnegans Wake”, 133.24): A mantra for an evening, a possible phrase for a T-shirt

A gift of a Maurice Sendak book