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During World War II, people were exhorted to knit socks for our soldiers. REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR. PURL HARDER, the posters said. The War on Terror poses a special challenge, as it's difficult to make the public feel involved--no tinfoil collections, no sacrifice of silk stockings to make parachutes, no national meatless days. After Sept. 11, the President told people to go shopping. This time officials actually provided a list. "We have to give people something to do," Ridge told lawmakers, which is how duct tape officially became a staple, like flashlights and Band-Aids. This week Ridge will...
Random House loved Pearl’s idea, and did in fact publish the companion, with a preface written by Pearl and an introduction by Pertile...
...translation itself also proved to be a huge undertaking. After reading the many versions of translations published during Longfellow’s life, Pearl chose the 1867 edition since it was the same text of the Inferno that the first Americans reading Dante would have seen. A large portion of the companion book is Longfellow’s notes, which serve as crucial guideposts throughout the text...
...Pearl says he plans to write another novel for Random House, after the “commotion” of The Dante Club subsides. Though he claims that his idea is still vague, he said that it would be about another 19th century literary culture with different characters, and no Dante...
...MATTHEW PEARL will appear at Cambridge Wordsworth Bookstore on Monday, February 17, 2003 at 7pm for a reading and signing of The Dante Club. He will also give a lecture on “The New Florence: How Dante Came to Boston” on Saturday, March 29, 2003 at 1:30pm at the Gardner Museum in Boston, as part of the “Museum Talks” series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. See story, page...