Page 112 - It's nice not to have to resist the world.

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A few notes from my interview with Sheila Heti that took place in a park in the sunshine. She is author of a novel, How Should a Person Be?, which will be published in the US in June. The quotes are from Heti. The man in the park is from my grandmother's notebook, probably clipped from the Montreal Gazette in the 1980s. The globe graphic is from The Economist as I no longer subscribe to Forbes.

Page 111 - The unnatural protrusion of their bones.

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Clockwise from top left: Max's Axe ; a hand drawn map of a bear attack crime scene by Kerry Gunther ; the hand fitness trainer as found in the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog ; passage from The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan.

Page 110 - A wormhole from the eighties opened up

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 Clockwise from top right: a photo of ice on a window pane from Photography & the Art of Seeing by Freeman Patterson ; The Folio Society in the UK recently published an edition of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (subscription needed) ; I get nervous when my favourite books are made into movies (I still haven't seen The Road, Stuart Henderson says 'don't!' (third review down) ; from the Q & A with Molly Ringwald on Reddit.

Page 109 - Migod, Margaret got her way.

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A letter from editor Jack McClelland to Margaret Laurence about a title for The Fire-Dwellers, found in Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland edited by Sam Solecki.

Page 108 - Solitude builds like electricity

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Clockwise from top left: Marilynne Robinson from her new book "When I was a Child I Read Books" as quoted in Intelligent Life ; an old (ish) photo ; Connecting Science and Art, novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration for art on NPR.