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Take the Tattooed Girl Tour
Click on this picture to take the Tattooed Girl Tour of Stockholm with photographer Julie O’Connor. Above, the street scene at Bellmansgatan 1 in the Södermalm neighborhood of Stockholm. This is the real life building at the address where the fictional Mikael Blomkvist is said to live.
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The Who’s Pete Townshend: I am drawn to Scandinavian fiction
The New York Times recently interviewed Pete Townshend, star of the legendary rock band, The Who. Townshend, whose lyrics have always been among the most interesting in the rock ‘n roll genre, also has a genuine literary side to his intellectual life … Continue reading
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Tagged Millennium series, Pete Townshend, Stieg Larsson
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Denise Mina, Graphic Novel Adapter of Stieg Larsson’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Shares Her Insights about Lisbeth Salander
The well-respected Scottish crime writer and playwright, Denise Mina, who recently adapted The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for DC’s graphic novel version, was recently interviewed by Casey Burchby for Publisher’s Weekly. The interview revealed some interesting insights into Lisbeth Salander and … Continue reading
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Tagged Denise Mina, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, graphic novel, Lisbeth Salander, Millennium series, Stieg Larsson
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The Emancipation of Lisbeth Salander…a guest blog post.
We are pleased to present a guest blog post by Jill Yesko. We welcome these kind of commentaries from readers of The Tattooed Girl blog. The Emancipation of Lisbeth Salander By Jill Yesko Throughout the Millennium Trilogy, Lisbeth Salander unequivocally … Continue reading
Variety reports on the global popularity of Swedish film and culture in the wake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:
The most famous scene in Swedish film used to be Max von Sydow playing chess with Death on the seashore in Ingmar Bergman‘s “The Seventh Seal.” Now it’s Noomi Rapace carving “I am a rapist pig” on the belly of her hog-tied abuser in “The … Continue reading
The Expo Files: A New Book of Nonfiction Journalism for Stieg Larsson Fans
A new book has been published in English in the UK called The Expo Files, which anthologizes some of the best of Stieg Larsson’s journalistic pieces for Expo, the Swedish political magazine that he wrote for and edited for the last … Continue reading
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Tagged Antisemitism, book review, Expo, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Independent, journalism, Larsson, Millennium series, Stieg Larsson, Stockholm
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A new movie we’d like to see in the United States
The UK newspaper The Guardian recently reviewed Babycall, a new movie set in Norway starring Noomi Rapace, the actress who so convincingly played Lisbeth Salander in the Scandinavian film versions of the Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. Although it is showing in London cinemas, there is … Continue reading
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Tagged Babycall, Guardian, Lisbeth Salander, Millennium series, Noomi Rapace, Norway, Scandinavia, Stieg Larsson, United States
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Mad Men, 1966, and Stieg Larsson
The new season of the TV show Mad Men has grabbed its biggest audience ever and triggered new media interest in the culture of 1966, which provides the backdrop for this year’s plot. Having been through the death of JFK and the … Continue reading
A YA Novelist/Lawyer Imagines Stieg Larsson’s Consuming Passion for Writing his Millennium Trilogy
We enjoyed reading the recent blog post of Francisco Stork, a YA novelist who has also had a long career as an attorney. In it, Stork imagines how Larsson might have approached the self-motivation to write his novels, having never … Continue reading
The Tattooed Girl in Buffalo:
Buffalo News.com News Editor Margaret Sullivan commented recently on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Lisbeth Salander, Stieg Larsson, Rooney Mara, and our book in her blog post, SulliView: The Girl Who Topped the Bestseller Lists — or why we … Continue reading
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