Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Richard Thompson breaks a string at the Ark in Ann Arbor in Summer 1988

The press attention generated by the Taylor Swift course at the University of Basel in Spring 2024

Getting into Keith Moon’s drumming on The Who’s 1971 singles compilation “Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy"

From Diane Seuss’s “frank: sonnets” (2021) to the invention of Russian Matryoshka dolls (1890)

The homesickness of Rezia Smith in Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway” (1925)

Emily Dickinson’s birthday and Austin Dickinson’s new hat