Episode Description
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.
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