{"id":12099,"date":"2022-05-24T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12099"},"modified":"2022-06-10T10:07:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T17:07:54","slug":"book-blobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/05\/24\/book-blobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Blobs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/books\/why-all-books-suddenly-look-same\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Inside Hook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Do All Books Suddenly Look the Same?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The ubiquitous \u201cblob\u201d cover is a combination of content, design and, yes, clickability<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/author\/trooney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TRISH ROONEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Trending-Book-Covers.jpg?fit=1200%2C800\" alt=\"covers of the vanishing half, detransition baby, untamed\" style=\"width: 480px;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Why are all books so abstract? \/ Getty, Riverhead Books, One World, Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You probably already know what the hottest new fiction book of the day looks like \u2014 without even seeing it. Picture electric blues, earthy greens, maybe pops of pinks and splashes of red blended together. While a plain white font announces the title, perhaps the swirling cursive of the author\u2019s name is mixed into the pattern itself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the modernist book cover of 2022 \u2014 or \u201cthe blobs.\u201d There are a few very prominent titles that share this aesthetic:\u00a0<em>The Vanishing Half,\u00a0<\/em>a story about the lives of two Black sisters by Brit Bennett, with a cover design by Lauren Peters-Collaer; and\u00a0<em>Detransition, Baby,\u00a0<\/em>a novel about queer parenthood by Torrey Peters, with a cover design by\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rachelakedesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Ake Kuech<\/a>. But there are many titles. Many more \u201cblobs.\u201d It\u2019s become a joke online; where people notice that even packages of beef jerky are starting to look like New York Times Bestsellers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/books\/why-all-books-suddenly-look-same\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Inside Hook<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Inside Hook Why Do All Books Suddenly Look the Same? The ubiquitous \u201cblob\u201d cover is a combination of content, design and, yes, clickability BY\u00a0TRISH ROONEY Why are all books so abstract? \/ Getty, Riverhead Books, One World, Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book You probably already know what the hottest new fiction book of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}