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Liana Finck

Liana Finck

The New Yorker

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Dear Pepper: Are You Nobody, Too?

I️ need to honor my existence and this wonderful life, and make things. But, first, I️ need to get out of bed.

23.10.2025 3

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Liana Finck

Dear Pepper: I’d Rather Be Drawing

How dare life require so much of you, when what you were born to do is sit in a corner of the room and watch and draw?

21.08.2025 10

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We’ve Lost Direction

Finding a way through the past, the present, and the unspeakable.

03.07.2025 4

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Dear Pepper: All the World’s a Life Stage

Banish the emptiness of not feeling useful, productive, directed.

05.06.2025 5

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Wife of Valor

12.02.2025 3

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I Quit the Patriarchy and Rescued My Marriage

A functioning partnership requires an equitable division of the workload of maintaining a family.

02.02.2025 60

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Dear Pepper: What a Way to Make a Livin’

Juggling life and work as an artist feels like trying to juggle a live, squirming human child and Schrödinger’s theoretical cat.

21.01.2025 4

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Post-Election Faces

Are these the usual blank stares—or something heavier?

08.11.2024 2

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Halloween Decorations Explained

Witches and skeletons make sense for this holiday, but your guess is as good as mine when it comes to “a general spooky vibe.”

31.10.2024 2

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Dear Pepper: More Puppies, More Problems

I want to embrace amor fati, but I really can no longer recollect who I once was.

01.10.2024 2

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