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Short
Fiction
Matthew
Pearl's short story "Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Boston Dromio" appears in an anthology collection,
Sherlock Holmes in America. (Link
here.)
Matthew
Pearl's short story "Year of the Pig" appears on FiveChapters.com.
Click
here to read the story.
Articles,
Essays, Forewords
Matthew
Pearl read an original essay about Dante, Poe and Dickens
called "Three Moons" at the Massenzio Festival of Literature in Rome, Italy on
June 23, 2009 for
the theme, Earth and the Moon: An Infinite Resonance. Read the essay
here.
Matthew
Pearl writes an article on Dickens and his historical stalker for Slate.
Click
here to read the article.
Matthew
Pearl contributes an essay on "Dickens v America" for More Intelligent
Life (The Economist online).
Click
here to read the essay.
Matthew
Pearl's op-ed "Honoring our History of Kindness to Animals," The Boston Globe, written
in support of a ballot question to end dog racing in Massachusetts, which ended up passing by a
wide margin. Click
here to read the op-ed online.
Matthew Pearl
contributes the foreword to Novel Destinations, a guide to the famous homes and
haunts of favorite authors by Shannon McKenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon. Visit the book's website for more.
Matthew
Pearl wrote the cover essay for the London Saturday Telegraph books section,
"Mysterious for Evermore," investigating the death of Edgar Allan Poe.
Click
here to read the essay.
Matthew
Pearl's op-ed "How The Liberal Arts Got That Way," on the resignation of Lawrence Summers
from Harvard, The New York Times. Click
here to read the op-ed online.
Matthew
Pearl's op-ed "The Lost Continent of The Atlantic," on the move of The Atlantic
Monthly out of Boston, The New York Times. Click
here to read the op-ed online.
Matthew
Pearl writes on why we read Dante in Babelia, literary supplement of Spanish newspaper El Pais. (article online
for subscribers only). (in Spanish).
Matthew
Pearl considers the genre of "intellectual thriller" in this article
for Argentine newspaper Clarin (in Spanish).
Matthew
Pearl interviews author James Carroll as part of the Authors Interview Authors section of the
Literary Issue of the
Improper Bostonian, October 2003.
Matthew
Pearl's op-ed "Let Us Read Longfellow," on the value of reading Longfellow, The
Wall Street Journal. Click
here to read the op-ed online.
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.) The article was cited in a major Massachusetts District Court
decision by Judge Mark Wolf regarding the execution sentence of Gary Sampson in January 2004.
Scholarly
Works
Matthew
Pearl edited and wrote the introduction to the Modern Library(US)/Vintage(UK) edition
of Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood
(more here).
Matthew
Pearl's essay "A Poe Death Dossier: Discoveries and Queries in the Death of Edgar Allan Poe" appears in two parts in
the Edgar Allan Poe Review, in Vol. 7.2 (Fall 2006) and 8.1 (Spring 2007). Part
One. Part
Two.
Matthew
Pearl edited and wrote the introduction to the Modern Library(US)/Vintage(UK) edition
of Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales
(more here).
Matthew
Pearl edited and wrote the introduction to the Modern Library edition
of Dante's Inferno: The Longfellow Translation (more here).
Matthew
Pearl's essay "Colossal Cipher: Emerson as America’s Lost Dantean" appeared in
the Dante Studies journal, volume 117 (1999).
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original materials. © Matthew Pearl. Author photos by Sigrid Estrada. Website
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Costello.
