Still on Stieg Larsson
Anders Engwall posted a short comment on this post about Swedish crime fiction, and I post the comment here, too:Pardon this late comment, but I came across a rather interesting take on Larsson's books today.http://www.expressen.se/kultur/1.1792588/banala-intrigerIf you don't want to exercise your Swedish capabilities, the gist of it is that while the writer can understand somehow why the books sell so well, whe can't for her life understand why they are considered to be among the better ones in the genre. She then points out why she thinks they are rubbish, and the way she

Scott Phillips: The Ice Harvest in Finnish
I finally got around to posting the interview I made with Scott Phillips, the author of the admirable The Ice Harvest, published in Finnish as Jäätävää satoa

Allen Baron's Blast of Silence
A couple friends of mine organized a minifestival last weekend: they watched, I think, twelve films on a big screen, projected from a canon (is this the right word? I'm not very savvy in these). Each participant brought one or two films with them. I brought Roger Corman's Little Shop of Horrors and

Review of Jarkko Sipilä's book
Steve Lewis provides a guest blogger's review of Jarkko Sipilä's novel Helsinki Homicide: Against the Wall here. More on the book here and here. (The later link leads to another review.)

Dave Zeltserman: Pariah
Dave Zeltserman has been getting lots of praise for his novel Pariah that came out earlier this year. All of it is well-deserved. Every bit of it. Pariah is a novel that's f