MATTHEW PEARL Author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens and The Technologists

Here you can find information on articles and writing projects by Matthew Pearl other than his novels.

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Short Fiction

Matthew Pearl's short story "The Many Murders of Oswald LeFarge" part of The Burning Maiden anthology. (Link here.)

Matthew Pearl releases for download "The Professor's Assassin," an e-book original prequel to The Technologists. (Link here.)

Matthew Pearl's short story "Ginnifer" appears in the June-September 2011 issue of Strand Magazine.

Matthew Pearl contributes a chapter to No Rest for the Dead a collective novel compiled by Strand Magazine editor Andrew Gulli and written by twenty-six authors. (Link here.)

Matthew Pearl's short story "Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Boston Dromio" appears in an anthology collection, Sherlock Holmes in America.

Matthew Pearl's short story "Year of the Pig" appears on FiveChapters.com. Click here to read the story.

Articles, Essays, Forewords

Matthew Pearl writes an article on searching for the first MIT pranks from the 19th century for Slate. Click here to read the article.

Matthew Pearl writes an article on "Dickens vs. the Pirates" for Babelia (literary supplement of El Pais). Click here to read the article.

Matthew Pearl writes an article on "The Shocking Campus Shooting in Virginia You Never Heard Of" for The Huffington Post. Click here to read the article.

Matthew Pearl and Louis Bayard contributed a joint article "The Colloquy of Bayard and Pearl: On Poe at 200" for bicentennial issue of Poe Studies (volume 42, issue 1, 2009).

Matthew Pearl contributed the essay "Mr. Longfellow" to a collection called Cambridge Voices dedicated to the Cambridge Public Library.

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.

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).