LITTLE ROCK, AR
10/21/05, Presentation for the Arkansas Philological Association

PHOENIX, AZ
25 July 2007, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Barnes & Noble (in conjunction with Poisoned Pen)

NEW HAVEN, CT
2/20/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Yale Bookstore

LOS ANGELES, CA
2/27/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Duttons
9/27/03, Special discussion at Barnes & Noble Long Beach on California Repertory's adaptation of The Dante Club with director Joanne Gordon and writer Howard Burman

PASADENA, CA
2/28/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Vroman's Bookstore

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (& AREA)
2/26/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Stacey's
2/26/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Kepler's Books
2/27/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at "M" Is for Mystery Bookstore (San Mateo)
5 Jun 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Kepler's
6 Jun 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Stacey's

DENVER, CO
3/3/04, Dante Club book reading & signing at Tattered Cover Bookstore
8 Jun 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Tattered Cover Bookstore

MIAMI, FL
3/10/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Books and Books

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL
3/9/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Barnes & Noble Pembroke Pines
20 July 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Books & Books

ATLANTA, GA
6/10/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Borders - Buckhead
19 Jun 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Dekalb Library/Georgia Center for the Book

CHIGAGO, IL
2/24/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Barbara's Bookstore (Oak Park location)
6/8/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Printers Row Bookfair 2003
12 Jun 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Borders Bookstore
27 Sept 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Rockford Public Library Festival of Words

IOWA CITY, IA
3/1/04, Dante Club book reading & signing at Prairie Lights
14 Jun 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Prairie Lights Bookstore

PORTLAND, ME
9/20/03, Fifth Annual Wadsworth-Longfellow Symposium at Maine Historical Society with Colleen Boggs (Dartmouth University) and Christopher Irmscher (University of Maryland)

BALTIMORE, MD
3/31/05, Lecture and booksigning on new project, creative writing and THE DANTE CLUB at University of Maryland Baltimore County
1 Oct 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at the Baltimore Book Festival

CHATHAM, MA
4/24/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Cabbages & Kings

BOSTON, MA (& AREA)
2/9/03, Dante Club celebration at Longfellow National Historic Site (Cambridge) with Lino Pertile (Harvard University)
3/6/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Borders Bookstore (Boston)
3/13/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Wordsworth Bookstore (Cambridge)
3/29/03, Lecture & signing at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston)
5/27/03, Boston Magazine Book Club reading & signing at Newtonville Books at the Attic (Newton) with Benjamin Cavell, Christopher Castellani, Michael Lowenthal and Karl Iagnemma
10/7/03, Lecture on "Poets of Passion: The Dante Club and the future of literary learning," for University in Education Program John Landrum Bryant Lecture Series (Cambridge)
11/2/03, Panel on "New Literary Voices" at Concord Festival of Authors 2003 (Concord)
2/16/04, Dante Club book reading & signing at Borders (Framingham)
3/11/04, Dante Club book reading & signing at Newtonville Books (Newton)
5/8/04, Session on historical fiction writing at Grub Street conference "The Muse & the Marketplace"
4/8/05, Panel discussion at the Signal or Noise 2K5 conference at the Harvard Law School, cosponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the Journal of Law & Technology, and the Council for Entertainment and Sports Law. (Cambridge)
7/18/05, Dante Club book reading & signing at Mary Baker Eddy Library with author Jennifer Haigh (her author website) for Boston 375 Celebration.
23 Jun 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Harvard Bookstore at the Brattle Theater
3 Nov 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Concord Literary Festival's "Suspense Night" with authors David Hosp and Karen Shepard
9 Nov 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Salem Athenĉum
11 Feb 2007, Matthew Pearl on the "Globe Talks" panel on The Art of the Mystery/Thriller with authors Michael Palmer, Tess Gerritsen, and Joseph Finder, moderated by Brian McGrory, at Shubert Theater
13 April 2007, 23rd Book and Author Luncheon for the Newton Free Public Library with Megan Marshall
11 July 2007, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Porter Square Books (Cambridge)
30 July 2007, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Brookline Booksmith (Brookline)

ANN ARBOR, MI
2/26/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Borders Bookstore
17 July 2007, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Borders Bookstore

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (& St. Paul)
2/25/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Ruminator Bookstore (St. Paul)
2/19/04, Lecture and presentation for Library Foundation of Hennepin County's Emerging Voices series (Minnetonka)
15 Jun 2006, Poe Shadow reading & signing at Minneapolis Public Library, "Talk of the Stacks" reading series

KANSAS CITY, MO
6/11/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Rainy Day Books

ST. LOUIS, MO
18 July 2007, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Left Bank Books

EXETER, NH
4/22/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Water Street Books

HANOVER, NH
19 April 2007, Matthew Pearl presented a talk entitled "Dante and Poe: Writing a Bestseller, or Writing for Yourself" for the Leslie Humanities Center at Dartmouth College

NEW YORK, NY
2/19/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Barnes & Noble - Astor Place
4/17/03, Annual "Dante Marathon" at Cathedral of St. John the Divine
3/10/04, Dante Club book reading & signing at Columbia University Bookstore
4/21/05, Speaker for the "Scribbles to Novels" charity benefit for the Jumpstart literacy program along with authors Amy Bloom, Michael Cunningham, Linda Fairstein and Al Franken at the New York Historical Society
31 May 2006, The Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Barnes & Noble - Astor Place
17 Oct 2006, "Poe X 2: Poe lives on in two modern novels" Special event at NYU's Poe Room with author Louis Bayard

RALEIGH, NC
3/9/04, Dante Club book reading & signing at Quail Ridge Books
21 July 2007, Poe Shadow book reading & singing at McIntyre's Fine Books
21 July 2007, Poe Shadow book reading & singing at Regulator Books

CINCINNATI, OH
2/25/04, Dante Club book reading & signing at Joseph Beth Booksellers

COLUMBUS, OH
2/23/04, Dante Club book reading & signing for Thurber House Evenings With Authors at Hitchcock Hall, Ohio State University

DAYTON, OH
9/29/03, Lecture & presentation for Dayton, OH, University Honors Program
2/24/04, Dante Club book reading & signing at Books & Co.
23 July 2007, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Books & Co. at The Greene

MIAMI, OH
11/17/04, Matthew Pearl appears with authors Edna Buchanan (site) and Mary Higgins Clark (site) entitled "Who Done It? An Evening of Murder, Mayham and Literature"
Miami University Lecture Series

PORTLAND, OR
3/4/04, Dante Club book reading & signing at Powell's Bookstore
25 July 2007, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at Powell's (Cedar Hils Crossing location)

PHILADELPHIA, PA
2/17/04, Dante Club book reading & signing at Barnes & Noble Downtown
2/24/04, Dante Club lecture "Hell, History & Mystery: A New England Inferno" for Lehigh University's "On the Same Page" program
19 July 2007, Reading & signing of The Poe Shadow with fellow author Louis Bayard at the Philadelphia Free Library

PROVIDENCE, RI
10/19/05, Lecture and presentation at Johnson & Wales University.

AUSTIN, TX
24 July 2007, Poe Shadow reading & signing at Book People

RICHMOND, VA
15 Jun 2006, Poe Shadow reading & signing at Fountain Bookstore

SEATTLE, WA
6/12/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Elliott Bay Bookshop
7 Jun 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at University Bookstore

WASHINGTON, D.C.
4/2/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Barnes & Noble Georgetown
22 Jun 2006, Poe Shadow reading & signing at Olsson's Books

MADISON, WI
3/2/04, Dante Club book reading & signing at University Bookstore

MILWAUKEE, WI
6/9/03, Dante Club book reading & signing at Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop (Mequon)
13 Jun 2006, Poe Shadow book reading & signing at H. W. Schwartz Bookshop

ARGENTINA
11/06, Promotional visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina as part of 5-country Latin American tour.