Book Snapshots: "Stitches: A Memoir" by David Small.

Stitches:  A graphic novel.  Excellent illustrations.  Depressing story.  If you are interested in a memorable book that will quickly, competently, yet artfully deflate your mood, this is it.      

Donald Westlake's "The Hunter" Now a Graphic Novel

From the New York Times:

[Darwyn] Cooke has turned his eye toward the guys and dolls that make up the world of Parker, the single-named, downright criminal antihero created by Richard Stark (the novelist Donald E. Westlake, using a pseudonym, who died last year). The result is a wonderfully engrossing graphic-novel adaptation of “The Hunter,” the 1962 book in which Mr. Stark introduced his frequent protagonist. (more)