Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Mixing up Albania and Armenia: Donald Trump and Virginia Woolf’s Clarissa Dalloway

Vanza takes Jim-Kim’s soapbox away

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My first “favorite movie”: George Roy Hill’s “The Sting” (1973), with Robert Redford and Paul Newman

"Either I am a great writer or a nincompoop”: Virginia Woolf, “nincompoop”, Sebastian Brant, and Basel

Lyrics setting up the instrumental break in Greg Brown’s “Brand New ’64 Dodge” (1994)