Matthew Pearl’s The Poe Shadow hit the stores today — picked up my copy at the local Barnes & Noble. With all the hoopla over The Da Vinci Code, I’m sure it won’t hurt Matt’s sales to have an endorsement from Dan Brown on the back cover. With all due respect to The Dante Club, I personally enjoyed this “Hist and Lit” outing much more. The presence of a strong central protagonist gives a stronger, more focused narrative. (Any similarity between said narrator and the author are, I’m sure, purely coincidental). Get your copy today.
(It’s already #55 on BN.com and jumped from #691 to 493 on Amazon from yesterday to today).
