DAVID SMALL GRAPHIC MEMOIR ACQUIRED
From the official press release:
W. W. NORTON ACQUIRES EXTRAORDINARY GRAPHIC MEMOIR BY CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER DAVID SMALL
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*swoon* I heard a little about this from Sarah Stewart at an official book shindig a couple years ago and have been wondering when it would materialize ever since. *squeeeeeee*
Okay, let the games begin — who would you cast to play David Small?
Omigod. Good game. Christopher Lloyd’s too old. If we’re talking a young David then . . . I know it doesn’t fit but if we look at teenage to college age David then my vote goes to Michael Cera. Doesn’t look anything like David but could do the personality to a tee. Plus, I bet Michael’s always hankered to do something serious. He has the chops for it.
….reminded me of Running With Scissors or A Shot in the Dark in its depiction of a repressed creative adolescent attempting to overcome the enormous emotional freight of a deeply troubled family.
Or maybe Shot in the Heart about Gary Gilmore’s upbringing in his deeply troubled family.
Oh, I am thinking Paul Dano (the son in Little Miss Sunshine)as the teen David.
Omigod yes. Brilliant. If they can get him, that is. That young man’s star looks like it’s about to shoot sky high due to that current film with Daniel Day Lewis.
I posted a story of David Small’s presentation for “Stitches” in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on my blog, The Sparrow Papers.