Stitches Becomes Second Graphic Novel Nominated For National Book Award Ron Hogan has a nice write-up at Mediabistro.com on word that David Small's BEA-breakout Stitches was among the works nominated for National Book Awards this year. Hogan was as curious as I was to hear that it was nominated as a Young Adult work even though very little was made of that work being for Young Adults during that initial burst of publicity. Turns out there was more confusion with the Awards Committee than with the publisher, although the publisher's reasoning sounds more like a PR strategy of the kind where this actor gets a Supporting Actor push and that actor gets a Best Actor push at the Oscars than it does anything about the work itself.
Ron Hogan 
