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Eva Gabrielsson first met the author in 1972, when both were 18. Asked often if there is a fourth Millennium book, she says yes and no.

The woman who loved 'Dragon Tattoo' author Stieg Larsson

He was the author of wildly popular mysteries, and Stieg Larsson himself remains a mystery. Dead of a heart attack a year before the first book in his Millennium trilogy was published, he’s simply a name on a book spine, a photo on a flyleaf; to media conglomerates, his work is a lucrative brand (65 million copies sold, four films, and two more on the way).

‘Freeman’ a tale of war and atonement
Bissinger’s ‘Father’s Day’: Honest, exalting, frustrating, powerful
Author Craig Johnson lives his cowboy dream

Young adult books: ‘Black Boy, White School’; ‘What Boys Really Want’: By Katie Haegele

As energetic as the audience it’s intended for, young adult fiction continues to sparkle. Here are a few of the more vibrant YA titles published over the last few months:
Book review: ‘Redefining Diva,’ by Sheryl Lee Ralph: Freelance

Redefining Diva Life Lessons From the Original Dreamgirl By Sheryl Lee Ralph Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing. 224 pp. $14 Reviewed by Karen E. Quinones Miller
A celebration of Black Writing: By Matt Huston, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

In its mission to draw inspiration from black culture in Philadelphia, an arts organization is offering its yearly breakout conversation among artists, writers and citizens. The 28th annual Celebration of Black Writing, which began Monday and continues until June 2, attracts creative people from many realms - performance and spoken-word artists, authors, editors, journalists, musicians and other cultural craftspeople. Its events cover a wide window of African-American artistic expression and technique, including performances, readings and film screenings, chick lit, advocacy journalism, urban fiction and black mental health.
Book Review: ‘Transfer’ from Naomi Shihab Nye: Reviewed by Thomas Devaney

Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most spirited voices in American poetry. The author, editor, and translator of more than 30 volumes, she is best known for her poetry collections Fuel (1998) and You and Yours (2005), and her award-winning anthology of international poems for young people This Same Sky (1992). In her affirming introduction for that book, she writes, “Whenever someone suggests ‘how much is lost in translation!’ I want to say, ‘Perhaps — but how much is gained!’ ”
Neil Gaiman’s singular vision: By Tirdad Derakhshani, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Neil Gaiman has spent a career mapping out the myths that make our world worth living in. A cartographer of the fantastical, terrifying, chaotic, and sublime world beneath our waking life, he perfected the graphic novel into a work of high literary art with The Sandman (1989-96), an epic 75-part comic-book series about the adventures of an unlikely hero named Dream, who is the very personification of dreaming. (He’s the baby brother of Death, a charming, perky, and likable, if awfully pale, antiheroine.)
Carlos Fuentes, 1928-2012: A voice of Mexico past, present and future: By John Timpane, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

What will become of Mexico? How can a country so powerful, so concerted, so modern, be so impotent, so chaotic, so backward? And how can Mexico, and all Latin America, take ownership of their futures? Of the many themes of Carlos Fuentes, the celebrated Mexican writer who died Tuesday in Mexico City at 83, those were always uppermost. This tireless writer in many genres, from screenplays to op-ed pieces, gained fame for his trenchant, postmodern fables of a people, country, and continent struggling into the light.
Richard Ford’s new novel “Canada” reasserts his role as one of America’s best writers: Reviewed by Kevin Grauke

There are two Richard Fords. Let’s call them Richard Ford East and Richard Ford West. Richard Ford East starts a novel like this: “In Haddam, summer floats over tree-softened streets like a sweet lotion balm from a careless, languorous god, and the world falls in tune with its own mysterious anthems.” Richard Ford West, on the other hand, starts a novel in this fashion: “First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.”
Book review: ‘Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick,’ by Paul Dickson: Reviewed by Allen Barra

Bill Veeck Baseball’s Greatest Maverick By Paul Dickson Walker & Company. 448 pp. $28
Review of Carlin Romano’s “America the Philosophical”: Reviewed by Jonathan Rée

By general consent, the great classic of 20th-century American philosophy is John Rawls’ Theory of Justice, which appeared in 1971. Around the same time, a pushy Princeton undergraduate with journalistic ambitions asked the mighty philosopher for an interview, only to be turned away with a gentle Harvard smile.
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison back with ‘Home,’ a new novel on racism: Wires / McClatchy

Home By Toni Morrison Alfred A. Knopf. 147 pp. ($24)
The fatherly side of Buzz Bissinger: By Amy S. Rosenberg, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Buzz Bissinger has already called someone a moron on Twitter this day, but really, the virtuosic vitriol that has characterized his Twitter feed has been somewhat subdued lately. Instead, Bissinger is sitting on a chair in a family room off the kitchen of his house in Chestnut Hill and talking about stuff so personal, so self-flagellating, that it would make you gasp if it weren’t comically shot through with F-bombs.
Book review: ‘Prague Winter,’ by Madeleine Albright: Joelle Farrell

Prague Winter A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 By Madeleine Albright Harper. 488 pp. $29.99

Dr. Marty Becker: Your Cat - The Owner's Manual

Tuesday, June 5 • 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM • PETCO • 270 E. Lancaster Ave., Wynnewood, PA

Maniac Magee Day

Saturday, June 2 • 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM • Elmwood Park • Harding Blvd., Norristown, PA

Mark Kram, Jr.: Like Any Normal Day

Wednesday, June 13 • 7:30 PM • Free Library of Philadelphia • 1901 Vine St., Philadelphia, PA

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot: Exit - The Endings That Set Us Free

Tuesday, June 12 • 7:30 PM • Free Library of Philadelphia • 1901 Vine St., Philadelphia, PA

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