STOCKHOLM, Sweden - The Swedish publisher of the bestselling "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" trilogy says it has hired an author to write a sequel to the series by Stieg Larsson, who died in 2004.
Norstedts said Tuesday it has signed a contract with "I am Zlatan" author David Lagercrantz for a new book about journalist Mikael Blomqvist and hacker Lisbeth Salander that is scheduled to be published in August 2015.
The head of publishing at Norstedts, Eva Gedin, told The Associated Press the book will be an original work that includes nothing from the fourth book in the series that Larsson began writing but hadn't finished when he died.
Larsson's trilogy has been a huge international success, with more than 75 million books sold in 50 countries.
2013 was filled with celebrity weddings, from super-secret elopements to elaborate, star-studded Hollywood events. Google just revealed the top 10 weddings that blew up their search engine this year. Take a look back at what made these weddings memorable!
10. Shenae Grimes and Josh Beech
The former 90210 star made a splash when she walked down the aisle (to house music!) in a black Vera Wang gown back in May. She and her model/musician husband exchanged vows in an intimate ceremony outside of London.
Tell us: Are you surprised by this list? Which celebrity weddings do you think were the most exciting this past year?
A special guest will join Lady Gaga during her performance on The Voice tonight.
— Lady Gaga Now (@LadyGagaNowNet) 17 Décembre 2013
It's hosted by two friends — Crissle and Kid Fury. The show premiered in January, and from then on it was a race to the top.
In what seemed like no time at all, "The Read" made it to #3 overall in iTunes' "New and Noteworthy" section, and peaked at #1 in the comedy section. When iTunes celebrated 100 million podcast subscribers, "The Read" was featured on a page of podcasts that helped get iTunes there.
In short: This show is hilarious, and its listeners are completely addicted.
Now, this is the kind of stuff that goes down on "The Read:"
In a recent episode, a guest on the podcast told a story about Drake (yes, that Drake). He'd been at a strip club in Atlanta and invited the dancers back to his hotel room. Instead of getting a private show, though, Drake gave one. He started playing music for his guests and telling them what he thought about it. The strippers, thinking they were going to get paid, got totally frustrated and left.
As you can imagine, Kid Fury and Crissle immediately lost it.
"I bet Drake got a pair of Uggs," Crissle said between guffaws.
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Bo Burnham is giving away the full-length video of his latest show, What, for free.
The 23-year-old, who shot to fame as a YouTube star, is returning to the channel to distribute the acclaimed show after funding the filming himself.
It will be posted online on December 17, and also made available on Netflix.
Other American comics such as Louis CK and Aziz Ansari have funded their own specials and released them for a modest amount, bypassing the big DVD companies. But Burnham is the first major comedian to release a special for free.
However he may not be the last: Richard Herring is currently filming his own stand-up series at London’s Leicester Square Theatre, Meaning Of Life, and has said he is inclined to release the episodes for free.
In his first YouTube posting for three years, Burnham promoted the new release.
‘They told me to stop chasing my dreams. I didn’t listen,’ he said. ‘They told me to stop chasing random little kids in the supermarket. I did listen and, sorry, again. I won’t do that any more.
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I love him! He also has a new book of poetry out, called Egghead.
who would you pick ONTD?
The Friends star Matthew Perry and the British newspaper columnist Peter Hitchens have clashed over drugs policy, with Perry calling his opponent's questioning of the existence of drug addiction "as ludicrous as saying Peter Pan is real".
The pair were part of a debate on specialist courts – in which former addicts sit as lay magistrates dealing with abuse-related crimes – on the BBC's Newsnight programme on Monday night.
Arguing in favour of their use, Perry said: "I know that they work. People that go through drug court have a 55% less chance of ever seeing handcuffs ever again."
Newsnight producer Ian Katz is trying to glam up the programme, methinks
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As Teng steps out of the bedroom scene and into the other people's lives, they — and the world — open up to her in surprising ways. And none of those ways is more surprising than what happens when she encounters the young amputee, played by Tommy Guns Ly, a 24-year-old dancer and founder of the ILL-Abilities crew, who lost his right leg to osteosarcoma as a teenager.
"We had talked about telling different stories of what it means to 'level up,' " Teng says. We thought how cool it would be if we had somebody who embodied that in his life, and Tommy was the perfect person. We were lucky to get him."
Teng funded the Level Up video via a Kickstarter campaign, asking her fans to help her raise $20,000 for the production. She ended up exceeding her goal by a factor of four. The experiment in crowd-funding took Teng completely by surprise — not only that she met her goal but that she met it so quickly.
"I launched the campaign as I was getting on a plane," she says. "It was a five-hour flight across the country. When I landed, it had been fully funded. It kind of kept going after that and became this fan game of giving fans things if we hit certain numbers." She eventually had 1,452 backers contribute $82,460, which not only funded the video but an international tour Teng has planned for 2014. "It ended up being this sort of love-letter correspondence between me and my fans."
In Level Up, which appears on Teng's album Aims, released in September, she sings: "Let your faith die, bring your wonder/Yes, you are only one/No, it is not enough/But if you lift your eyes, I am your brother." For Teng, that lyric reflects the need for acting together, even when you don't know how to solve a problem, even when you don't believe the problem can be solved.
"Humanity may let you down; you may let yourself down," Teng says. "That's not important at the end of the day. What's important is that you have a sense of possibility, that you can look around and be amazed at how far we have come, even though we have farther to go."
You can listen to the whole album at the USA Today Article
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Britney Spears will be even more grateful for her Las Vegas residency this Christmas after her new album completely flopped in the UK.
The singer was massive in her heyday, but the British public seem to have totally lost interest after her album dropped to the level we expect from winners of The Voice .
OK, it wasn't quite that bad - but we thought it was just a slow start when her new record debuted at Number 34 a week ago.
Fast forward seven days, and it has absolutely plummeted to a shocking level.
The star's single Work B*tch was her first Top 10 hit since Hold It Against Me peaked one place higher at Number six two years ago, but that success hasn't been able to translate.
In contrast, superstar Beyonce's shock new release as gone straight in at Number five.
Meanwhile, crooner Michael Buble has seen a surge in sales in the build up to Christmas.
After 35 weeks in the chart, his album To Be Loved has climbed from 19 to six, while his festive record Christmas has moved from 10 to seven.
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