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