Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Amy Krouse Rosenthal, author of Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal.

“And the other meaning is texting. The book has its own phone number, and throughout it are a dozen and a half prompts, where you, the reader, can text a certain word, and you receive something that goes with the passage you just read, like a piece of music or a video clip. Or you are invited to send something back, like a photo, that gets fed onto the book’s companion website, which is intended to be a community for readers.