Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

“Going Slow” with the Roberto Bossard band at the Bird’s Eye in Basel, 7 March 2024

My FC Basel – AC Fiorentina souvenir scarf

“Purple with ill-smelling dye”: The river in Coketown in Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times” (1854)

Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson: Sixth cousins thrice removed

“Some sort of witty retort”: Mr. Stevens and possible autism in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “The Remains of the Day” (1989)

The correlation between popularity and quality in popular music