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...Pearl took such a relaxed approach to writing that he didn’t tell anyone about it, he says, although that he spent most of his spare time crafting his novel...
Yale inadvertently provided the final nudge that set Pearl on his literary path. Pearl and several other students participated in a reading group dubbed “Literature and the Law,” which focused on a different subject each semester. These ranged from Kafka’s The Trial, to Joyce’s Ulysses, to Melville...
...Pearl led the group in “Dante and the Concept of Justice,” and it was his re-exploration of Dante that he says re-ignited his interest, and motivated Pearl to write snatches of scenes, which he calls “experiments...
...never written any fiction, and I have never taken a creative writing course—not that I recommend that as a way to go. It was hard to jump in,” Pearl says...
...actual writing of the novel did not take place until after Pearl completed several months of research. Though he was familiar with the Dante Club itself, he was unfamiliar with the details of daily life in 19th-century America...