"It's official. James Patterson, after a presentation last month at BookExpo America in New York, now holds the Guinness World Record for "Most Entries on the New York Times Best-Seller List." Patterson, working alone and with co-conspirators, has sent a whopping 45 books onto the list." (Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times Book Review, June 14, 2009)
I was surprised to see the following "graphic novels" get reviewed in The New York Times Book Review (I've had the first one on my wish list for months now):
Fiction
The Eternal Smile - Gene Luen Yang/Derek Kirk Kim; "New stories work the borders between reality and imagination in comic book style. In one, a boy is either a warrior or having nightmares in a hospital bed; in the next, an "eternal smile" descends from the sky to confound a miserly frog; in the final story, e-mail messages from a Nigerian prince seeking bank account information lead in an unexpected direction, in sudden full-color panels, for a lonely young woman. Funny and darkly surreal."
Nonfiction
"You'll Never Know." Book 1: "A Good and Decent Man" - C. Tyler; "What happened to Carol Tyler's father as a staff sergeant in the Army during World War II wasn't unusual . . . 16 million American soldiers went off to war, and the ones who came back got on with their lives, or tried to. For nearly 60 years, he didn't talk about the war, even with his family. A proud, resourceful blue-collar craftsman, he could be taciturn and irritable; the relics of his military service in his garage fell into "the category of 'leave it the hell alone' or 'it's none of your goddamn business.'"
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