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The Tattooed Girl
The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind
the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time
by
Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer and John-Henri Holmberg
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction:
by Dan Burstein
PART ONE: THE MAN WHO CONQUERED THE WORLD
Chapter 1: Why Stieg Larsson is a Significant Voice
The Profound Prescience of Stieg Larsson by Dan Burstein
Chapter 2: The Profound Prescience of Stieg Larsson
The Author Who Played With Fire by Christopher Hitchens
The Girl Who Conquered the World by Laura Miller
Lisbeth Salander, the Millennium Trilogy, and My Mother by Jenny McPhee
The Novels You Read Are Not Necessarily the Novels Stieg Larsson Wrote by John-Henri Holmberg
Chapter 3: Stieg Larsson, Friend & Colleague
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
Remember Stieg . . . and the Summer of 2002 by Annika Bryn
"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
"Millennium, Stieg, and Me," a Preview of the Eva Gabrielsson Book by Paul De Angelis
Chapter 4: The Wellsprings of His Imagination
The Trufan and the Reader And Writer of Science Fiction by John-Henri Holmberg
The Man Who Inhaled Crime Fiction by John-Henri Holmberg
PART TWO: THE CLIMATE IS COLD, THE NIGHTS ARE LONG,
THE LIQUOR IS HARD, AND THE CURTAINS ARE DRAWN
Chapter 5: The Fatal Attraction of Nordic Noir
Inspector Norse The Economist
IKEA Noir by Brooks Riley
The Scandinavian Invasion by Jordan Foster
Chapter 6: Making Waves: A Roundtable of Sweden's Leading Crime Fiction Writers
"What You Are Afraid of Has Already Happened" an interview with Anders Roslund and Borge Hellström
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's 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 Taste of Discomfort When Finished" an interview with Katarina Wennstam
Chapter 7: Has Sweden Lost Its Swedishness?
We're All Swedes Now by Andrew Brown
"Men Who Hate Women": The Non-Fiction Case Studies that May Have Influenced Larsson by Karin Alfredsson
Nazis, Spies, and the Thriller Writer's "Scalpel" by Carl Loof
We're Not Like Abba and Ikea: Some Shocking Truths About Sweden by Stephen Armstrong
The Man Who Blew Up the Welfare State by Ian MacDougall
"A Dark Sweden, With Dishonest, Greedy, Cynical, Child-Abusing, and Women-Hating Men" by Mian Lodalen
Chapter 8: Engrossed in the World Of Stieg Larsson
The Death of Stieg Larsson: Mysteries Within Mysteries by Laura Gordon Kutnick
Lisbeth Salander Is the Cure to Elizabeth Gilbert by Lizzie Skurnick
Engrossed in the Dense World of Stieg Larsson: A Reader's Odyssey by MeraLee Goldman
Chapter 9: Stieg Larsson Re-imagined
The Girl Who Played with Larsson by Craig Faustus Buck
Now Playing: The Girl Who Started a Feminist Franchise by Melissa Silverstein
Noomi v. Rooney, The Rumble in the Celluloid Jungle by Paul Berger
"No One Asked Him How He Felt About Being Raped" an interview with Katarina Wennstam
The Mystery of the Fourth Book by John-Henri Holmberg
Lisbeth Salander Brought to Life on Stage by John-Henri Holmberg
PART THREE: THE MAN WHO WAS STIEG LARSSON: AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT
Chapter 10: The Stieg Larsson Story
Living at Home by John-Henri Holmberg
On His Own: Life in Umeå by John-Henri Holmberg
Stieg in Stockholm by John-Henri Holmberg
PART FOUR: THE MILLENNIUM TRILOGY BAEDEKER
A Millennium Smorgasbord: Thought Provocations, Reflections, and Resonance after Reading Stieg Larsson's Trilogy by Dan Burstein
The Moral Geography of Stieg Larsson by Dan Burstein
ABBA, IKEA, Volvo . . . and Larsson an interview with Mathew Barzun
Tea with the One-Time "Third Most Dangerous Man in Sweden" an interview with Paolo Roberto
The Stieg Larsson Timeline by Julie O'Connor
The Best Things Ever Said About "The Hottest Books on the Planet" a compilation
Acknowledgments
Contributors