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Title:
The tattooed girl : the enigma of Stieg Larsson and the secrets behind the most compelling thrillers of our time
Author:
Burstein, Daniel.
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, [2011]

©2011
Physical Description:
xxii, 359 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
General Note:
"The unauthorized guide"--Cover.
Language:
English
Contents:
The author who kicked the hornet's nest -- The profound prescience of Stieg Larsson / Dan Burstein -- The author who played with fire / Christopher Hitchens -- The girl who conquered the world / Laura Miller -- Lisbeth Salander, the Millennium Trilogy and my mother / Jenny McPhee -- The novels you read are not necessarily the novels Stieg Larsson wrote: How have the Millennium novels been edited; The troubled translation from Swedish to English / John-Henri Holmberg -- Stieg's "baby": the past present and future of Expo magazine / an interview with Daniel Poohl -- My colleague, Stieg Larsson / an interview with Mikael Ekman -- "I offered them a shrimp sandwich" / an interview with Robert Aschberg -- Exposing the extreme right / an interview with Anna-Lena Lodenius -- Eva Gabrielsson on the record, a compilation -- In her own words: Eva Gabrielsson tells her story / Paul De Angelis -- Steig Larsson and science fiction: Stieg in fandom: the life and times of a trufan; Reading (and sometimes writing) science fiction / John-Henri Holmberg -- The man who inhaled crime fiction / John-Henri Holmberg -- The fatal attraction of Nordic noir -- Inspector Norse from The Economist -- IKEA noir / Brooks Riley -- The Scandinavian invasion / Jordan Foster --

"What you're afraid of has already happened" / an interview with Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström -- Lars Kepler: The character who came to visit and never left / an interview with Alexander and Alexandra Ahndoril -- Women, crime novels, and Sweden...and Zambia...and Vietnam...and Poland...and India...and.../ an interview with Karin Alfredsson -- "It is easier to discuss the number of women on corporate boards than it is to discuss violence against women" / an interview with Veronica von Schenck -- "Crime fiction should taste good while reading, but leave a bitter aftertaste" / an interview with Katarina Wennstam -- We're all Swedes now / Andrew Brown -- "Men who hate women": the nonfiction case studies that may have influenced Larsson / Karin Alfredsson -- Nazis, spies, and the thriller writer's "scalpel" / Carl Loof -- We're not like Abba and Ikea: some shocking truths about Sweden / Stephen Armstrong --

The man who blew up the welfare state / Ian MacDougall -- "A dark Sweden" / Mian Lodalen -- The death of Stieg Larsson: mysteries within the mysteries / Laura Gordon Kutnick -- Lisbeth Salander is the cure to Elizabeth Gilbert / Lizzie Skurnick -- A reader's Odyssey / MeraLee Goldman -- The girl who played with Larsson / Craig Faustus Buck -- Now playing: Lisbeth Salander, Hollywood, and feminism / Melissa Silverstein -- Noomi versus Rooney: the rumble in the celluloid jungle / Paul Berger -- "No one asked him how he felt about being raped on camera" / an interview with Katrina Wennstam -- Lisbeth Salander brought to life on stage / John-Henri Holmberg -- The mystery of the fourth book / John-Henri Holmberg -- The Stieg Larsson story: Living at home; On his own: life in Umeå; Stieg in Stockholm -- Thought provocations and reflections after reading Stieg Larsson's trilogy... / Dan Burstein -- The moral geography of Stieg Larsson / Dan Burstein -- ABBA, IKEA, Volvo...and Larsson / an interview with Ambassador Matthew Barzun -- Tea with the one-time "third most dangerous man in Sweden" / an interview with Paolo Roberto -- Stieg Larsson: timeline of a life / Julie O'Connor.
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ISBN:
9780312610562
Format :
Book