I’ll say! Fiddling around with the previous film I found this older conversation with Umberto Eco! (English). A review, of sorts, in Swedish is here.
The fantastic Liv Strömquist broke the audience record for a Swedish author at Kulturhuset last week with 550 seats. Since the space was sold out, it’s a good thing the whole thing is available...
Yesterday, Andreas Ekström and I visited both the morning shows to talk about our book, Främling. Watch TV4 here and SVT here. Kulturpanelen on SVT Gomorron also talked about the book last week, see ...
This year’s edition of the Nordic Larp Talks went really well, watch them here. At Solmukohta, I gave a talk about designing supernatural terror larps; this won’t be of interest unless yo...
I hosted a pretend dinner party on Swedish television last week. My pretend guests were Virginia Woolf, Hergé, Tove Jansson and Tina Fey. Weird but wonderful format. I am, among other things, moved t...
The most rewarding job I have is as a columnist, yet I realize I haven’t written anything about that for a while. I’ll try to get better at posting weekly roundups (but who am I kidding, ...
Behold a backstage shot from this week’s TV-cirkeln, with famed food writer/ TV host Lotta Lundgren visiting. The episode is here, and pretty neat (we’re talking about episode 5, which ...
Nina von Rüdiger and I will be talking about Oblivion High at the library in Upplands Väsby next Wednesday. Also, don’t forget TV-cirkeln is on tonight! We’re on episode five of Game of T...
This Thursday at Finlandsinstitutet, I’m in conversation with Finnish artist and author Rosa Liksom, indeed an icon of my teenage years in Helsinki; she’s recently won the Finlandia award...
You can watch it here now! It feels like we really nailed the tone, plus I get to illustrate a point by building a tower of cookies. (TOWER OF COOKIES!) Snaps to Nils Cromnow and Sara Fritzon who hav...
Isn’t it gorgeous? If you want to see my face when I held the physical book for the first time, it happened on TV this morning. A brilliant, like, five-page article on Oblivion High in SvD from...
SO, starting last night I get to host a new TV show which should be pretty damn unique almost worldwide: TV-Cirkeln: Game of Thrones – a kind of aftershow/talkshow/ten-part critical study. My panel m...
Gustav Almestad and Annika Beijbom have edited a selection of the #prataomdet texts into an anthology. Two of mine are included at the beginning and the end. It felt important to get some of these te...
Fun week! The real grown-ups in the P1 Talkshow slot, Epstein and Nordegren, have a few days off for planning, and I’ve been temporarily raised to host in their stead with my mentor and friend ...
A few weeks back, Sofia Mirjamsdotter (also known as @Mymlan) and I received the Swedish Grand Journalism Prize in the Innovator of the Year category for #prataomdet. It is a strange category for an ...
Since I usually work in the realm of language and opinion, I suffer from a constant craving to do stuff with other tools. That’s why I nurture dreams about crafting, that’s why I can̵...
Since the Swedish Journalism Award nomination for #prataomdet happened to approximately coincide with the decision to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden, the connection existing in some people’...
I know I always claim to have a new book out, and it’s true too, but really they’ve pretty much been anthologies apart from the comics which have only been published in Finland. But in th...
I’m popping home to give a talk in Swedish at De Ungas Akademi – a pretty cool institution doing important work! The talk will be on Media and the Power to Change the World, and obviously cente...
No less than two theatrical plays have been produced based on the #talkaboutit blog posts, tweets and articles, and tonight you are cordially invited to a reading of the second of these in Stockholm....
Today at lunch, the shortlists with the nominees in the three August Award categories will be announced at Postmuseum, Stockholm. Since I’ve served on the fiction jury, I’ll show up to ch...
Tomorrow, Friday 14th, I am going on the road! At 10 AM, I will talk at Tärna Folkhögskola in Sala about my career. From there, it’s just five hops and approximately thirteen skips to Gothenbur...
This Wednesday, October 12th, my hero Umberto Eco will visit Kulturhuset in Stockholm and I get to meet him in conversation on stage. The mind boggles: the professor is, in short, my favourite living...
This past Sunday, Humorhimlen Lab on Sveriges Radio P3 aired a pilot of our debate show Debattklubben. It is a test balloon, obviously, but it did come out very funny. The honourable Julia Skott sat ...
This spring, I visited Finnish talk show sensation Bettina S on the Stockholm season of her show – not just an honour but great fun too! The episode has finally aired and is available on Yle Areena f...
It was very nice of some many of you to show up for my last three appearances at the Gothenburg Book Fair even though I forgot to advertise them here. On Saturday morning, Barbro Teir, Ylva Larsdotte...
Yesterday at the Book Fair I had the privilege of talking to Ann Lagerström from Modern Psykologi magazine about #talkaboutit and specifically about women who don’t respect the sexual boundarie...
Being as I am (temporarily!) in a position to work only on things I find truly exciting, important and fun, it feels a little conceited to say I love one of my jobs more than the others. But it’...
Six months after the first print media #prataomdet text was published in Dagens Nyheter, what will probably be the last (at least for now) is published in the current issue of Modern Psykologi. In th...
In my continuing mission to try to actually update this blog with most if not all of the stuff I do, it feels important to share that I have made my debut as a dramatist. The Radio Theatre at the Swe...
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