Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

“For you and I” and “of you and I” in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Remains of the Day” (1989)

Isak Dinesen’s “The Blank Page” (1957) and Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” (2017)

A New Yorker cartoon and the fantasy of emigration from a reactionary United States

“Allkey dallkey”: Four years of rereading “Finnegans Wake”

A phrase about Paul Celan and the title of a book by Alfred Bodenheimer

Doctor Eckleburg in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (1925) and King Gillette in John Dos Passos's "Manhattan Transfer" (1925)