So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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I have been waiting for this fascinating and beautifully drawn book ever since I heard the incredibly talented David Small give a talk in 1996, when he described some of the unusual circumstances that he's had to overcome and mentioned that maybe one day he would finish a book about it. Extremely personal, shocking, heartbreaking, and ultimately generous to those who knowingly and unknowingly inflicted so much damage on him in his formative years, this is not only the best book I've read this year, but one of the best I've read in decades.
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Stitches by David Small
Jennifer Delpit, January 18, 2011
I have been waiting for this fascinating and beautifully drawn book ever since I heard the incredibly talented David Small give a talk in 1996, when he described some of the unusual circumstances that he's had to overcome and mentioned that maybe one day he would finish a book about it. Extremely personal, shocking, heartbreaking, and ultimately generous to those who knowingly and unknowingly inflicted so much damage on him in his formative years, this is not only the best book I've read this year, but one of the best I've read in decades.