Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Morrison's "The Bluest Eye", Ellison's "Invisible Man", and Baldwin's "Go Tell It on the Mountain"

"An equal claim with any other set of men": Anne Elliot's first words in Jane Austen's "Persuasion"

"Time for the story of my life": The absence of backstory in "To Have and Have Not"

"Bullcrap" rhetoric

"Whatever you say always comes to pass": Emma as novelist

"One of these two is a fanciful, troublesome creature": Ambiguity and interpretive control in Jane Austen's "Emma"