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Timothy Leo Taranto

Tim Taranto hails from Upstate New York, and attended Cornell. In addition to the Paris Review Daily, his work has appeared on the Rumpus and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Tim lives in Iowa City, where he is studying fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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    Literary Puns, Round III

    If you enjoyed Timothy Leo Taranto’s first and second rounds of literary puns, check out these new illustrations of such essential authors as Juneau Díaz and Karen Mussel

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    Fifty Shades of Abe

    A Presidents’ Day surprise courtesy of Rumpus literary pun master Timothy Leo Taranto:

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    Literary Puns, Round II

    If you enjoyed our first round of illustrated puns, don’t miss out on Pablo Nerutabaga, Anaïs Ninja, Leo Toystory, Sylvia Plathypus, and company.

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    Happy Birthday, Edith Wharton!

    For what would have been her 151st birthday, the author gets our visual pun treatment. Without further ado, meet Edith Wart-on:

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    Literary Puns

    Timothy Leo Taranto illustrates some of literature’s greats, including David Foster Wallace and Gromit, Flan-nery O’Connor, and John Frankensteinbeck.