{"id":65146,"date":"2014-01-17T12:05:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T17:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=65146"},"modified":"2014-01-17T12:05:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T17:05:22","slug":"a-resident-of-sipswich-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/17\/a-resident-of-sipswich-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"A Resident of Sipswich, MA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This week, we\u2019re presenting Timothy Leo Taranto\u2019s illustrated author puns. Today, the final entry:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/John-Cupdike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65147 aligncenter\" alt=\"John Cupdike\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/John-Cupdike.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/John-Cupdike.jpg 395w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/John-Cupdike-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>John Cupdike<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Tim Taranto hails from Upstate New York and attended Cornell. In addition to <\/em>The Paris Review Daily<em>, his work has appeared on the Rumpus and McSweeney\u2019s Internet Tendency. Tim lives in Iowa City, where he is studying fiction at the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we\u2019re presenting Timothy Leo Taranto\u2019s illustrated author puns. Today, the final entry: John Cupdike &nbsp; 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\u2019s Internet Tendency. 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