US actress Lena Dunham, creator and star of the hit TV series Girls, will release her first book on October 7, she revealed on Monday.
The book's cover harks back to the decade that taste forgot.
Dunham, 27, disclosed the publication date for Not That Kind of Girl on her @lenadunham Twitter account, linking also to an Instagram photo of herself showing off the book's cover.
Bloggers immediately spotted a resemblance to the covers of Philip Roth novels, starting with Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 and, in the 1970s, Our Gang, My Life as a Man and a reprint of Goodbye, Columbus from 1959.
Random House paid more than $US3.5 million ($A3.92 million) in 2012 to secure the rights to Dunham's literary debut, the New York Times reported at the time.
Drawn in part on Dunham's personal experiences, Girls dwells on the lives and loves of twentysomething women in hipster Brooklyn. Season three is now running on HBO, which has renewed the show for a fourth season.
