An excerpt from the latest instalment of Rescue Pet, the comic by Michael DeForge that has been appearing in Maisonneuve since our Spring 2011 issue. The fourth and final episode is in our Winter 2011 issue, on newsstands now!

An interview with DeForge on the cute, the unsettling and his “go-to source of humour.”

“The chit-chat from the writers, professors and bibliophiles who had filled the Brigantine Room suddenly stopped as the curtain was pulled back. You would only have been able to see Didion if you were sitting near the front; how the back row sensed her presence instantly is still a mystery. But there she sat in the front row, not yet onstage, everyone staring at her.”

Dwelling on Blue Nights: Joan Didion in Toronto

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Nude cyclists in Toronto, circa 1912. Read more about “scorchers,” the Canadian Wheelman’s Association and the “biking lobby” in Toronto Standard’s “When Toronto Really Was a Bike Town.”