On this episode, Taylor Thornburg, multi-media creator and fan talks about how to plug in to the local literary scene, his connection to physical media, and how he loves authors that are just entirely out of the box. We also talk about a lot of the great benefits of the Chicago reading life. 

Agathe, 6:00 p.m. to 7:27

Books mentioned in this episode: 

What Betsy’s reading: 

Katabasis by R.F. Kuang 

Flashlight by Susan Choi 

Books Highlighted by Taylor:

Ubik by Philip K. Dick 

In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa 

White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

Lapovona by Ottessa Moshfegh

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.  

Other books mentioned in this episode:

Herscht 07769 by Lázló Krasznahorkai

Schattenfroh by Michael Lentz 

The Instructions by Adam Levin

The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey 

Bluets by Maggie Nelson 

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 

Frindle by Andrew Clements 

Severance by Ling Ma 

Bliss Montage by Ling Ma 

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon 

All Fours by Miranda July 

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 

Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh 

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace 

Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 

North Woods by Daniel Mason