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Book
Tour
Meet
the author!
Summer 2006 book tour upcoming! Matthew
Pearl's second novel, The Poe Shadow, has just hit bookshelves
in the US as Matthew returns from a promotional visit to
England, Ireland and Scotland, preparing for stops around
the US throughout the summer, including Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco, Seattle,
Denver, Chicago, Milwaukee, Iowa City, Minneapolis,
Atlanta, Richmond, Washington, DC and Miami. Matthew
will also promote other foreign editions of the novel during
visits to Spain in late June, Italy in early July, and
Poland in September. For details as they become available,
go to our book
tour guide for details. Those who sign up for the
email newsletter will
receive email updates for events in their area.
News Highlights
New!
The
Poe Shadow now available in bookstores everywhere! (May 23, 2006)
Matthew
Pearl's second novel, The Poe Shadow, scheduled to be released May 23, 2006 in the US and UK, and following
that in countries around the world. Check out the great
advance
review in Publishers Weekly and this early mention in the
Library Journal Prepub
Alert and The Arizona Republic "Summer Books Preview" here.
Make sure
to sign up for the email newsletter
to stay informed! (Apr 2006)
Publishers
Weekly's article "Something New, Something Old" includes
The Dante Club as one of the top trade paperback bestsellers of the year.
(3/27/06)
The
Dante Club wins a Book Standard Bestseller award, the first-ever industry awards to honor
consumer choice by celebrating the top blockbuster titles of the past year. The Dante Club took the #1 spot in Mystery &
Detective Historical Fiction category and was reported as one of the "titles that stole the spotlight over
the course of the evening" at the awards ceremony in New York. (9/23/05)
Check out the Russian
webpage for The Dante Club! (4/05)
Check out the Polish
website for The Dante Club! Polish edition published April 2005 now a bestseller. (4/05)
The Dante Club
rated
one of the top four bestselling novels in translation in Mexico for 2004. (2/05)
The Dante Club
is chosen by El Tiempo cultural editor Andrés Zambrano as one of the best books published in
Columbia for the year. List published in Babelia, literary supplement of El Pais.
(1/1/05)
In USA Today's
"2004's Great Reads" The Dante Club is ranked as one of the Top Bestselling Books of the
Year (top 80) (12/04)
Borders
chooses The Dante Club as one of the best
of 2004 paperback fiction. (12/04)
The Dante Club is
ranked as one of the Top Bestselling Books of 2004 by the Washington Post/Neilsen (top 100). (12/04)
The Dante Club has been
published in France and French Canada as LE CERCLE DE DANTE from Robert Laffont Editions and has entered
a second printing and the French bestseller lists. See publisher webpage.
Mentioned in this
article in Le Soleil. Matthew Pearl visited Paris in October for promotion. (11/04)
The Dante Club
longlisted for the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary award. (11/04)
The Dante Club
shortlisted for the 2004 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger award in the UK. (9/04)
Paperback
edition of The Dante Club now available in US & Canada, a Booksense
76 selection and national bestseller.
The
New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin joins the "Club," posting a generous
comment on The Dante Club at his website.
Make sure to check out his new blockbuster thriller, Sleeping
Beauty. (8/04)
THE
DANTE CLUB's Italian edition, from Rizzoli, is short-listed for the
Premio Scanno, a prestigious Italian literary award. (8/04)
#1
Spanish bestseller!
The
Dante Club's Spanish edition, from Seix Barral, becomes a #1 BESTSELLER
IN SPAIN! Reaches its fifth printing in one
month and hits the bestseller lists. Check
out the terrific Spanish minisite for "EL CLUB DANTE" by
clicking here. (turn on your audio for the intro!) Matthew Pearl has series of appearances
around Spain. Here's a review
from El Semanal. (7/04)
THE
DANTE CLUB's Italian edition, from Rizzoli, receives the honorable mention for
for the Premio Internazionale Ostia, a prestigious Italian literary award. (7/04)
Greek bestseller!
THE
DANTE CLUB's Greek edition, from Livanis, hits the Greek bestseller lists.
Here's a Greek newspaper
article mentioning its success. (6/04)
International Bestseller!
The
novel hits the UK bestseller charts. Read The
Observer's
great review, and check out the TLS and
other additions to
our reviews page. The Italian version of the novel
has entered an eighth printing, also reaching the
bestseller charts. Read
more at the novel's Italian
website and Virgilio.it's feature.
(2/04)
Radio Appearances
Matthew
Pearl was interviewed about The Dante Club on the NPR national radio
show "Weekend
Edition Sunday" with
guest host Linda Wertheimer. You can listen to the interview online
by
clicking here (3/2/03).
Matthew Pearl and Harvard Professor Lino Pertile were interviewed together
on the widely aired NPR radio show, "The
Connection with Dick Gordon," aired in over sixty markets. You can listen to the
show on
this webpage (3/3/03).
Matthew
Pearl walks "Here & Now" host Robin Young on a "Dante Club"
tour of the Longfellow House in Cambridge. The show aired on NPR affiliate
WBUR. You can listen to it
online at this website. (3/12/03)
Matthew
Pearl was interviewed about The Dante Club on the syndicated talk show
"Eye
on Books" with host Bill Thompson, aired across the country.
The interview can be heard
online by clicking here. (4/12/03)
Matthew
Pearl offers advice and thoughts for young adults interested in writing in an
interview for Mycoolcareer.com with Jill Sanborne. Listen to the interview online
at this site. (10/03)
Matthew
Pearl has also appeared on the Lewis Burke Frumkes Show (WPAT-FM New York), Chapter
One with Simon Rose (snydicated), Morning Edition with Jeff Schechtman (KVON-FM/Napa NPR),
Dan Skinner Show (WBAA-AM/Indiana NPR), Pete Brayley and Co.
(WBSM-AM Massachusetts), the Jordan Rich Show (WBZ-AM Boston), Words and Music with
Leslie Schultz (WMFO-AM/Boston), the Mike Horn Show (CRN National
Radio), the Peter Solomon Show (WIP-AM Philadelphia), the Greg Berg show (WGTD-FM Milwaukee),
Milwaukee Presents with Damien Jacques (WPR Wisconsin Public Radio),
Sunday Morning News (KUOM-FM University of Minnesota),
First News with Rod Fritz (WRKO-AM Boston), Morning Report with
Clarence Bucaro (WBKC-AM Cleveland), Afternoon Magazine with Celeste
Quinn (WILL-AM/Chicago NPR), Newsworthy with Al Primo (Newsworthy
Network national radio), Barbara Altman's Front Porch (WOND-AM New
Jersey), Cover to Cover with Mark Dewitt (WRRS-FM Cincinatti),
Living Writers (WCBN-FM University of Michigan), Enid Goldstein Show
(KNRC-AM Denver), Conversations with Larry Meiller (Wisconsin Public
Radio), The Open Line with Tom Kearney (WPTF-AM Raleigh), Live
from Prairie Lights with Julie Englander (WSUI AM 910 Iowa City), Word for Word with Dotun Adebayo (BBC London
Radio), Oneword (UK), The Arts Show (BBC Radio Scotland), The Word (BBC
World Service), Rattlebag (RTE radio Ireland), The Simon Mayo Show (BBC
Five Radio).
Television Appearances
Matthew
Pearl was featured on the nationally broadcast PBS program The Newshour with Jim Lehrer
as part of a segment on recent
trends in the publishing industry. To watch online, click
here (and scroll down to "Selling Books")... to read a transcript or listen to RealAudio version of
the story,
click
here. (5/27/03)
Matthew Pearl was
interviewed on Connie Martinson's "Talks Books", aired at various times
across the country on public and cable television. (3/26/03)
Matthew
Pearl was interviewed on New York One's "Close-Up with Sam Roberts" (2/19/03).
Matthew
Pearl was interviewed about The Dante Club on WBZ-4 CBS Boston and Fox 25 Boston. (2/18/03)
Matthew Pearl was interviewed about THE
DANTE CLUB and Boston literary history on the acclaimed news show Chronicle
on WCVB Channel 5, Boston's ABC affiliate. (12/12/02)
Print Interviews, Articles, Essays and
Online Features
The Arizona
Republic recommends The Poe Shadow for summer reading in
this article. (22 May 06)
The Poe Shadow
is included in the "Cover to Cover" article about upcoming books in The Atlantic
Monthly. (June issue 2006)
Boston Magazine
includes a photo and article about Matthew Pearl. (June issue 2006)
The Boston Herald
includes The Dante Club in their recommended books in the article "Masschusetts
Reads." (4/11/2005)
A Dante Club spotting: Matthew
Pearl is the subject of a "Godoku"
Puzzle online. (3 Apr '06)
A Dante Club spotting:
This Boston Herald society article
by Dana Bisbee mentions Matthew Pearl's participation in a fundraiser for Jumpstart.
A Dante Club spotting:
The Dante Club is mentioned in a Boston Globe article
about Boston College's readings of The Divine
Comedy. (4 Dec '05)
The Improper Bostonian
profiles Matthew Pearl's volunteer work with animals in need in the
article "The Secret Life of Writers." (9/14/2005)
A Dante Club spotting:
Fortune magazine editor and CNN commentator Andy Serwer in his Street
Life column reports listening to The Dante Club audio book on his iPod. (9/13/2005)
A Dante Club spotting:
In the August 22 issue of Business Week the article "Cutting Through the Noise" mentions
The Dante Club. (8/22/2005)
Publishers
Weekly profiles books, including The Dante Club, that are popular with reading groups and book clubs.
(Article "Reads Well With Others" available online
only to PW subscribers.) (5/23/2005)
Matthew
Pearl's op-ed "The Lost Continent of The Atlantic," on the move of The Atlantic
Monthly out of Boston, appears in The New York Times. Click
here to read the op-ed online. (free registration may be required to log-in.) (5/02/05)
THE
DANTE CLUB is mentioned in a London Times Online article that journeys through literary Boston. (11/9/04)
Matthew
Pearl writes on why we read Dante in Babelia, literary supplement of Spanish newspaper El Pais. (article online
for subscribers only). (in Spanish). (10/9/04)
Matthew
Pearl considers the genre of "intellectual thriller" in this article
for Argentine newspaper Clarin (in Spanish). (9/18/04)
A Dante Club spotting:
Check out the September issue of Architectural Digest and notice The Dante Club on the
bedside table of famed designer Juan Montoya. (9/04)
The
Chicago Tribune discusses The Dante Club in an article on historical mysteries. (8/25/04)
An
interview with Matthew Pearl appears in the new multinational internet magazine of
current affairs and culture, "Three
Monkeys Online". You can read the article by
clicking here. (4/04)
The
New York Public Library chooses The Dante Club as one of the 25 Books to Remember of
2003, which honors "exceptional fiction and nonfiction titles." Also included is
THE COFFEE TRADER by David Liss (author
site), one of the
earliest authors to generously support
The Dante Club.
(3/04)
For
a new analysis and review of The Dante Club by a literary journal, go to the Cercles
Review. (3/04)
Good
Housekeeping's April issue (on sale 3/5) selects The Dante Club and Boston for a special
insert called "Book It!" that features 11 books, classic and contemporary, connected
with travel destinations. Read an article about the insert here,
and check out
the April issue of Good Housekeeping, or click
here for the article! (3/04)
Paperback
release of The Dante Club in US & Canada, featured in
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer and The
Globe & Mail. (2/04)
The
Baltimore Sun profiles a book club and discusses their reading of
The Dante Club. (2/12/04)
Matthew
Pearl's article "Death Penalty" (online
here) cited in a major Massachusetts District Court decision by Judge Mark Wolf
regarding the execution sentence of Gary Sampson. (1/29/04)
The London
Times profiles Matthew Pearl. (available online to subscribers only) (1/25/04)
Deadly
Pleasures chooses The Dante Club as one of the best books of the year. View
list here. (1/04)
The
Providence Journal includes The Dante Club in their review of the year's
best books. (12/28/03)
The
Word literary magazine (UK) includes The Dante Club in their review of the year's
best books. (12/03)
U.S.
News & World Report selects The Dante Club for their year-end review of best books
entitled "What
Readers Want". (12/15/03)
The
Boston Globe is "Making
a List" of great gift books, including THE
DANTE CLUB. (12/7/03)
The
Boston Globe selects The Dante Club as one of the top books of the year in their
"Bounty
of Books." (11/28/03).
THE
DANTE CLUB is named one of the
Best of 2003 Mysteries and Thrillers by Borders. (11/03)
San
Francisco Chronicle chooses The Dante Club as one of the top Mysteries & Thrillers for
their Holiday Book Review. (11/16/03)
The
Boston Globe's Sunday article
"Murder in the Library" by Harvard professor Leland de la Durantaye features discussion of THE
DANTE CLUB. (11/02/03)
The
Cambridge Chronicle (10/22) features an
article about Matthew Pearl's Dante Club tours and a
Q&A with the author, both by reporter Jenny Attiyeh. (10/03)
Library
Journal (10/1 issue) chooses The Dante Club as one of the best first novels of the
Spring/Summer season, calling it an "exemplary literary mystery." Read the feature
article online
here. (10/03)
Matthew
Pearl interviews author James Carroll as part of the Authors Interview Authors section of the
Literary Issue of the
Improper Bostonian. (10/03)
The
acclaimed California Repertory Company completed its 21 performance run of the World
Premiere of a dramatic
adaptation of The Dante Club, directed by Joanne Gordon and
adapted by Howard Burman. LA
Weekly calls the play "visually stunning and
intellectually absorbing."
Mentioned in Army Archerd's column in
Daily Variety on 5/19/03. (10/03)
Matthew
Pearl is included in the "Hot List" of authors in Boston Magazine's
September 2003 issue. (9/03)
Check
out recent write-ups of The Dante Club at the Copperfield
Review and at Alfred
Hitchock's Mystery Magazine. (8/04/03)
Book
Magazine spotlights the audio book version of The Dante Club. (7/03)
THE
DANTE CLUB chosen as one of the hot summer reads by The Boston Globe.
(6/03)
The
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's books editor Geeta Sharma-Jensen profiles Matthew Pearl
in this article. (6/8/03)
Booklist Magazine chooses The Dante Club as one of the top 10 historical
novels of the year. (5/15/03)
Laura
Nalesnik in a Wellesley
Townsman article profiles an "Authors on Stage" program that included a presentation
by Matthew Pearl. (5/15/03)
THE
DANTE CLUB audio book, narrated by Boyd Gaines, has been selected by Booksense 76 as a
Top
Ten Audiobook, marking the recognition of June
as National Audiobook Month. (5/03)
The
Hartford Courant included Matthew Pearl in a feature by Maurice Timothy Reidy,
"On a Different Paper Chase," about Yale Law School writers. (5/9/03)
The
Hollywood Reporter sings the praises of The Dante Club in this
article about recent
novels. (5/9/03)
The Harrisburg Patriot-News profiles Matthew Pearl's participation
over speakerphone with a Pennsylvania book club. (5/8/03)
The
Boston Phoenix features an article about Matthew Pearl by Tamara Wieder,
which
can be read online here. (4/28/03)
Boston
Magazine (May issue) features Matthew Pearl in an article about young Boston writers.
(4/28/03)
Details
Magazine features Matthew Pearl as one of the "25 New Faces Who Matter" in
their annual "Next Big Thing" issue (April issue). (3/20/03)
Matthew
Pearl's "Author Talk" interview is featured at Bookreporter.com.
Also, check out Bookreporter's fantastic full-length
review of The Dante Club. (3/15/03)
Matthew
Pearl profiled in a Sun Sentinel article by books
editor Chauncy Mabe. (3/12/03)
UPI's
Pat Nason profiles the unique reaction to The Dante Club's "Caution to the Reader." (4/1/03)
Matthew
Pearl's op-ed "Let Us Read Longfellow," on why we need
to read Longfellow now more than ever, appeared in The Wall Street Journal on
Monday, 3/10. Click
here to read the op-ed online. (3/12/03)
Matthew
Pearl was featured in an Entertainment Weekly article (from the 3/7 issue)
about Yale Law School writers. (3/5/03)
The
Boston Globe's David Mehegan profiles Matthew Pearl and The Dante Club in a
feature article (3/3/03).
Under
the headline "Igniting an Inferno", Publishers
Weekly writes about the success of The Dante Club as part of their "Behind the
Bestsellers" column. It's not available online, but here's some of
what they have to say: "Matthew
Pearl's The Dante Club, a first novel that's been generating
a buzz ever since PW noted its genesis back in 2000 (Hot Deals, Apr. 17). Perry
added, "We've had reviews just about everywhere you'd want them, and this seems
to be one of those rare instances where reviews are actually selling books." Pearl,
a 1997 summa cum laude Harvard grad, wrote the first draft of The Dante Club while
attending Yale Law School. His seven-city tour began on February 20 with an SRO
reading at Barnes & Noble's Astor Place location in N.Y.C.; in addition, a
crew from The News Hour with Jim Lehrer followed Pearl around Gotham for a
forthcoming feature, "Making a Bestseller." Among other media to come are
an AP feature and an EW story on Yale writers." (3/2/03)
Matthew
Pearl is featured in an Associated Press article by Hillel Italie on young novelists
turning to history for inspiration. Click
here to read the article online.
Matthew
Pearl is profiled in the Hartford
Courant by Steve Courtney. (2/16/03)
Matthew
Pearl profiled in this Harvard
Crimson article and in this Yale
Daily News article. (2/03)
The
Dante Club and Matthew Pearl are profiled in a full-length feature article in the major Italian newspaper, La Repubblica. Click
here to read the article.
Matthew Pearl
and The Dante Club were profiled by Angela Salvucci in the Quincy
Patriot Ledger (2/1/03).
Matthew
Pearl is the featured profile in the "Promising Debuts" section of
Pages
Magazine's January/February 2003
issue. Click
here to read the article online (in PDF format).
Matthew
Pearl's article on "Dante and the Death Penalty" appeared in
the January/February 2003 "Crime and Punishment" issue of Legal
Affairs magazine. (Click
here to read the article.)
Recommendations
Click here
to see some recommendations by Matthew Pearl that have appeared in print or online.
For those
interested in learning more about Edgar Allan Poe, a great place to start is the Edgar Allan Poe Society of
Baltimore website.
The site contains not only Poe's stories and poems, but also scholarly documents including his letters
and letters written to Poe. The Knowing
Poe website is a visually stunning exploration of Poe's life ideal for students. Those with an
interest in Poe should consider joining the Poe
Studies Association, and receiving the Edgar
Allan Poe Review and the Poe
Studies journal.
There are
numerous Poe-related sites to visit around the United States. Some of these sites feature prominently
in The Poe Shadow, including in Baltimore, where visitors can find Poe's gravesite and Poe's
Baltimore home.
Elsewhere, don't miss the Poe
house in Philadelphia, the Poe
cottage in New York, the Poe
room at the University of Virginia, and the terrific Poe
Museum of Richmond (which also has a wonderfully rich website). The Poe birthplace commemorative plaque is
in Boston on Boylston Street between Tremont and Charles streets. While in New York on a Poe tour,
also check out the very fun Edgar's cafe at 84th & Broadway (also called
"Edgar Allan Poe street"), a Poe themed restaurant.
Want
to learn more about the setting of The Dante Club? Check out the Longfellow
National Historic Site on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tours by expert guides run frequently and include the rooms in which
the Dante Club met for their translation sessions and dined afterwards
until late into the night.
Also
stop in at the web headquarters of the Dante
Society of America, the oldest continuous organization in the world devoted to Dante studies
— and an outgrowth of the original Dante Club.
The
Special
Collections at Lehigh University currently presents an exhibit entitled
"A Dante Club Reunion," a display of first editions and early texts of the members
of the Dante Club. Visit the online
exhibit here.
All
original materials. © 2006 Matthew Pearl. Author photos by Sigrid Estrada. Website
designed by Chris
Costello.
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