Drawings of this Moment

Baby, Trump, Vulnerability

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).

Quickly, before I️ have to go back and get her out of her crib, where she’s drying out mid-diaper change - I️ don’t feel exactly like I️ have two kids yet (I️ hear it’s very hard). Where I’m at now is feeling that I️ have one kid and one space alien monster moonbeam who sleeps in my arms most of the day, waking intermittently to gnaw on my breast, growling loudly when it has to poop or fart or burp or eat.

She’s cute - in an otherworldly way rather than a child way. As unknowable (almost) as she was when she was inside me. I️ can’t bear to be away from her. I️ also have nothing to say to her.

On our first day home from the hospital, I️ tried to decipher her facial expressions. I’ve made no headway since then. They’re more familiar - but not less mysterious. Same with her strange, beautiful little noises.

(I️ think experts say those smiles are because of gas? Anyway, they’re so beautiful, Gatsbyesque).

New Book Things

15% off the Book @Bookshop

Bookshop has given my readers a delicious 15 percent discount on Questions Without Answers. You can pre-order here — just use the code QA15.

Come to my reading April 16 in Brooklyn

Sarah Manguso and I️ (and our friend Meghan Cleary) are doing an event/reading pre-book launch hosted by the wonderful Urbane Arts Club in Kensington, BK the evening of April 16th. Please RSVP if you plan to come.

Oooh! Special Giveaway Contest

Go to my Instagram post, here and comment with the best question a kid’s ever asked you. Tag a friend and follow @hogarthbooks @lianafinck. We’ll pick five questions and winners get a signed book. I’m also going to illustrate the five winning questions just for fun.

Now, Many Drawings

Abt the baby

On the state of the country

As always, you can buy prints here

and books here.

Lots more drawings behind the paywall on vulnerability and rage and baby.