{"id":4063,"date":"2012-04-02T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=4063"},"modified":"2012-04-01T20:42:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T04:42:48","slug":"different-covers-for-books-by-male-and-female-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/publishing\/different-covers-for-books-by-male-and-female-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Different covers for books by male and female writers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/male-female-book-covers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"male-female-book-covers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/male-female-book-covers.jpg\" alt=\"male-female-book-covers\" width=\"435\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/male-female-book-covers.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meg Wolitzer raised the issue <a title=\"meg wolitzer on women's fiction\" href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/01\/books\/review\/on-the-rules-of-literary-fiction-for-men-and-women.xml\">at the New York Times<\/a>. Emily Temple at Flavorwire followed up with <a title=\"male and femal writers' book covers\" href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/275360\/are-book-covers-different-for-female-and-male-authors\">a sampling of book covers<\/a>. These authors focus on supposed typographical differences between books by male and female authors. From the Flavorwire sample it looks to me like color and tone might be at least as significant. Is this just random? What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meg Wolitzer raised the issue at the New York Times. Emily Temple at Flavorwire followed up with a sampling of book covers. These authors focus on supposed typographical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[35,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4063\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}