I'm reticent to blog about articles I've come across and enjoyed, because I'm afraid this pattern will result in lazy posts* where I just pass along someone else's work**, don't add anything to the table, at which point my posts will be diluted and no one will want to read them, and I won't want to write them.***
With all of that being said, I'm sharing this article, both because I didn't encounter it on the web (I read it in a magazine at this fabulous coffee shop in Oakland called "Farley's East. Highly recommended), and because I found parts of it to be particularly touching.
Vanity Fair Article On Stieg Larson's (Dude Who Wrote Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) Life and Death By His Partner
*Of course, the very genesis of this blog was the acceptance that sometimes you'll never do something until you sit down and do it.
** This was actually the model behind my second attempt at blogging. And with this post as an example, glad to see something carried over!
*** Although, no one is reading this blog anyway, so none of that matters. Let the white-labeling of internet pages I've Stumbled Upon begin anew!
that was an amazing article.
ReplyDelete"“To exact revenge for yourself or your friends,” he used to say, “is not only a right, it’s an absolute duty.” Even if he sometimes had to wait for years, Stieg always paid people back."
what a badass.