Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Civil rights as collective work becomes an individual's heroism in "Marshall"

"My heart had stopped to beat": A solecism in Vladimir Nabokov's "Pale Fire"

A scene in "Marshall": Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston

Fagin "the Jew" and Quilp "the dwarf" in Charles Dickens

The contrast between quoting Denise Levertov and quoting John Ashbery

"Provoking events": Mitch McConnell's trivial obfuscations