{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"How 'The Walking Dead' and a Terrence Malick film inspired this writer's first book","publication_date":"December 18, 2020","summary":"\"I thought I could somehow bridge the two,\" Ling Ma recently told the PBS NewsHour of her novel \"Severance.\" \"What if Terrence Malick directed a zombie B movie and this was the voiceover? Would that be in bad taste?\"\r\n","author_name":"By Courtney Vinopal","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2020\/12\/a9a40c4ad3ae74453b8ee9015fd2fb54-GettyImages-1067646712-1024x683.jpg","thumbnail_height":683,"thumbnail_width":1024}