Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

How to write a Bob Dylan song: A creative-writing exercise

Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s “Summer” and a "hieroglyphic profile” of Napoleon in Thomas Hardy's "The Trumpet-Major" (1880)

“Neck or nothing” in Thomas Hardy’s “The Trumpet-Major” (1880)

“I should like to study mathematics – to know about the stars”: From Katherine HIlbery in Virginia Woolf’s “Night and Day” (1919) to Jakob Bernoulli and Thomas Pynchon

A snowy walk in Liestal to get to a concert

“Herself, and not her music”: Emily Dickinson goes to a Jenny Lind concert, 3 July 1851