He would have been a difficult interview,” says Baksi, on the line from his home in Stockholm. “He didn’t want to be a pop star, so he wouldn’t have wanted to do interviews on a big television channel like CNN. He would have preferred to do interviews with small, leftist magazines.” Baksi, a writer and publisher in his own right, has recorded his impressions in Stieg Larsson, My Friend, an insightful memoir that focuses mainly on Larsson’s early career as a crusading journalist. “It was a kind of therapy for me,” says Baksi of his motivation for writing the book. “Also, if the situation was reversed and I had sold three books and died, then Stieg probably would have written a book about me.
—Memoir lets Stieg Larsson’s friend move on with life - thestar.com
