{"id":10087,"date":"2009-12-30T00:33:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T08:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=10087"},"modified":"2009-12-30T00:57:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T08:57:51","slug":"judging-books-by-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/10087","title":{"rendered":"Judging books by (ugly) covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/HUCK.jpg\" width=\"270\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Gradually, I realized that the books I had put off reading for so long all had covers that screamed: &#8216;Pulp me! Pulp me!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joe Queenan looks at <em>Huckleberry Finn<\/em>, Elijah Wood (pictured, with Courtney B. Vance), <em>Gatsby, Doctor Faustus, Death of a Salesman<\/em> &#8211; and how a BAD cover design can ruin a perfectly good book. <\/p>\n<p>NYT essay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/06\/books\/review\/Queenan-t.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2009\/12\/06\/books\/review\/Queenan-t_CA0\/articleLarge.jpg\" width=\"425\"><\/p>\n<p><em>What to do about an ugly cover: 1. Brown bag it; 2. Reverse it; 3. Try spandex; 4. Use house paint; 5. Duct tape it; 6. Tear it off<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Judging books by (ugly) covers\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/10087\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Gradually, I realized that the books I had put off reading for so long all had covers that screamed: &#8216;Pulp me! Pulp me!&#8221; Joe Queenan looks at Huckleberry Finn, Elijah Wood (pictured, with Courtney B. Vance), Gatsby, Doctor Faustus, Death of a Salesman &#8211; and how a BAD cover design can ruin a perfectly good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,55,53],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-10087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-history","category-publication-design","category-thoughts","tag-graphic-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10497,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions\/10497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}