Posts tagged

"Matthew Pearl "

July 20, 2012

Horror Set Against the 9 Circles of Hell: Matthew Pearl’s The Dante Club

In 1865 Boston, a murderer whose crimes reflect the torture from scenes in Dante's The Divine Comedy is on the loose. A group of American poets must use their scholarly knowledge of the great writer to understand and track the devilish killer.

March 8, 2012

The Draw of 19th Century America, by The Technologists Author Matthew Pearl

The author of The Dante Club and The Professor’s Assassin is sometimes asked what it is about that time and place in history that appeals to him – and suspects he may need some psychoanalysis to answer.