{"id":119169,"date":"2017-12-12T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=119169"},"modified":"2017-12-11T13:44:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T18:44:02","slug":"book-ideas-bottom-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/book-ideas-bottom-barrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Ideas from the Bottom of the Barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_119170\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/from_the_writers_block_library3-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119170\" class=\"wp-image-119170 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/from_the_writers_block_library3-2.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"5199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/from_the_writers_block_library3-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/from_the_writers_block_library3-2-768x3993.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/from_the_writers_block_library3-2-197x1024.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-119170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Liana Finck<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Liana Finck\u2019s cartoons appear in <\/em>The New Yorker<em>, <\/em>The Awl<em>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lianafinck\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">her Instagram feed<\/a>. Her graphic novel, <\/em>A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York<em>, was published by Ecco Press in 2014.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/writersblocklibrary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-119171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/writersblocklibrary.jpg\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/writersblocklibrary.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/writersblocklibrary-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/writersblocklibrary-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/writersblocklibrary-768x634.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liana Finck\u2019s cartoons appear in The New Yorker, The Awl, and on her Instagram feed. 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