January 17, 2014 Look A Resident of Sipswich, MA By Timothy Leo Taranto This week, we’re presenting Timothy Leo Taranto’s illustrated author puns. Today, the final entry: John Cupdike 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.
January 16, 2014 Look He Did, After All, Attend the Tuskegee Institute By Timothy Leo Taranto This week, we’re presenting Timothy Leo Taranto’s illustrated author puns. Today: Ralph Elliphant
January 15, 2014 Look Two-Time Winner of the National Borscht Award By Timothy Leo Taranto This week, we’re presenting Timothy Leo Taranto’s illustrated author puns. Today: Philip Broth
January 14, 2014 Look To Whinny, Perchance to Dream By Dan Piepenbring It’s Nice That, the art and design site, directed our attention to this assortment of vintage Ladybird Books, a British children’s imprint known in its heyday for pocket-size hardbacks on an exhaustive array of topics. Your average Ladybird is accessible, vividly and impeccably illustrated, and almost heartbreakingly earnest. See, for example, 1951’s The Discontented Pony, which traffics in a kind of postwar ennui and Weltzschmerz unknown to the youth of today. This pony story tells of a very discontented pony named Merrylegs. Even though having everything a little pony needs—a field to run about in, a kindly farmer owner, and farmyard friends Daisy and Squeaker—Merrylegs still begins to feel discontented with his lot in life. We know the feeling, Merrylegs. We know the feeling. Ladybirds, also the subject of a recent BBC documentary, tend to bring out the collector’s impulse—they’re legion, they’re handsomely made, and they speak to the tastes of a bygone era, so of course you’ll want to own them all. It’s worth perusing the whole Ladybird corpus, actually. Some gems, in no particular order: Man and His Car Strawberries and Cream – The Adventures of Wonk Learning About Heraldry People at Work – In a Big Store What to Look for Inside a Church The Public Services – Gas The Story of Clowns The Garden Gang – Sheila Shallot and Benny Broad Bean In the Train with Uncle Mac
January 14, 2014 Look Author of Tender Is the Bite By Timothy Leo Taranto This week, we’re presenting Timothy Leo Taranto’s illustrated author puns. Today: F. Scott Spitzgerald
January 13, 2014 Look Author of Henderson the Fire King By Timothy Leo Taranto This week, we’re presenting Timothy Leo Taranto’s author puns. Today: Saul Bellows