Christine
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Matthew Pearl:
I am so thrilled that you have written this newest book as I read The Dante Club right after reading The Inferno in college. I had sent you an email and you wrote back the nicest response in return. I printed that response and showed my students, (I teach high school English) and I then created a project in which they had to read a book and write an email to the author. Why did you decide to write a sequel?
Matthew Pearl
Hi Christine, I'm so glad you're looking forward to The Dante Chamber, and that you shared our email exchange with your class! I'll be coming to Florida to talk about the new book, but unfortunately not very close to you (Jacksonville and Miami). You know what, I always wanted to do this follow-up, even at the time I was finishing The Dante Club, and this just felt like the right time. Hope you'll look for it on May 29, support of readers like you is the lifeblood for these stories, and I'm especially honored to have teachers among my readers.
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Janellyn51
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Matthew Pearl:
I was just looking at my copy of Robinson Crusoe, which doesn't have a date of publication....the dedication, Puzzle Prize Mary A. Galivan 1884, so pretty old.....I was wondering about bookaneers, did they only pirate books before they were published anywhere? I know I saw you at Porter Square and you had a pirated edition of a book, I can't remember how you can tell the difference! Can I have a refresher course?
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