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Drawings of this Moment

2 weeks ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

Hi Everyone,This is a post of drawings, which my occupied/unoccupied brain has been thinking in feverishly - weirdly, being home with a baby puts me back in the pre-kid state where I️ spent a lot of time wandering around, riding subways, going to and from things, idly coming up with little drawings. (The hormones don’t hurt, either).
Feelings

3 weeks ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

First, before my post-partum brain forgets, Bookshop has given our readers a delicious 15 percent discount on my and Sarah Manguso’s new book Questions Without Answers. You can pre-order here and use the code QA15. This is a bit from a project I’ve been working on for the past couple of years. I’ve been wanting to show it to you for a long long time because I’ve been working on it quietly and I’d really like to hear what you think of it.
Questions Without Answers

1 month ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

I wanted to let you know, Questions Without Answers, a book Sarah Manguso and I made is out April 29th. This book is a collection of the kinds of questions kids ask that at first seem wildly out of left field, but only because they‚Äôre actually truer and deeper than the stuff of daily life. They are also unanswerable.
Moving Day

1 month ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

Hi Everyone. This week’s newsletter is about doing everything: specifically moving an entire family while very pregnant. The move was terrible, and it’s already hard to write about, because you can’t write while you’re doing something so hectic, and you can’t remember afterwards. Everyone agrees that moving is awful, but it still feels like it’s particularly awful only for me. It started a month ago, with packing. First books and summer clothes, then toys, then plates and cups, then linens and coats.
Contractor Content. Exclusive Cartoons.

1 month ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

This week I’m going to post some more New Yorker cartoon rejects. I’d like to write something more essay-like (not because an essay is better but because I️ can’t bear to part with them) but WE’RE MOVING (oh and also I’m about to give birth) and my brain feels like a dense fruit cake, the less said about that the better. I do keep having ideas for drawings, but they’re unusable, like the drawing ideas you have in a dream. In this case, they’re exclusively about contractors.
On Being Married in a Hectic Time

1 month ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

Hello again. Every week, I make cartoons for the New Yorker, the dear, always two-steps-ahead pinnacle of culture that represents, more than anything else, New York, sophistication, wit, and in some specific ways America, and which celebrates its hundredth birthday this month. Under ideal circumstances, I spend two or three days a week drawing cartoons for the magazine, and, under ideal circumstances, the magazine buys one. I’ve almost never published the ones they don’t buy. Why?
Monthly Goings-On

2 months ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

Hi! Happy belated President’s Day. I have been feeling drawn to American history lately—the interesting parts and the awful parts and the swept-under-the-rug parts. Just theoretically, because I don’t have time to read anything – but still. Seems like something I should hold together in my head at this moment, maybe to help me remember. AnywaysHere’s some work I’ve done this month. There are some new letterpress prints in my shop. Here’s one.
More on Rescuing my Marriage

2 months ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

First, I’ll be speaking about Mixed Feelings and other things with Liza Donnelly at the Society of Illustrators this Thursday 2/6 at 6:30. Come early to get a book signed if you’d like. Register here (it’s free). This week I had an illustrated op-ed in the New York Times called “I Quit the Patriarchy and Rescued My Marriage.”(Here’s the beginning of it. You can read the rest here).
The Tunnel

2 months ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

Hello,How, how are you doing? I️ hope OK. I’m beyond grateful-overwhelmed-amazed for the kindness you’ve shown the book. A little more about it and then essays + drawings for you. Which seems strange because I don’t think the book is actually funny, but there we are. right next to Banana Bop, hello there!What a warm celebration at Lofty Pigeon. I love that bookstore (the books, the people who work there, the beautiful floor) and the people who live in the neighborhood (my neighborhood).
A Few More Competitive Parenting Cartoons

2 months ago | lianafinck.substack.com | Liana Finck

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