March 18, 2004

Contact:
Myra Gross, Library Communications,
Alvin Sherman Library at NSU
(954) 915-9399

Books Over Biscotti at NSU’s Alvin Sherman Library Hosts Discussion of Mathew Pearl’s “The Dante Club”

FORT LAUDERDALE , FL – Books Over Biscotti, a monthly book discussion group, meets on Thursday, March 25, 2004 at 7:00 p.m. in the Connections Café, at the Nova Southeastern University Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center.

The discussion is free and open to the public. Participants will discuss Mathew Pearl's new book, "The Dante Club."

Pearl 's fiction debut should please fans of well-crafted literary mysteries. According to the “Library Journal,” the actual Dante Club was a group of 19th-century Bostonians who gathered to translate Dante's “Inferno” for an American audience. Members included poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Russell Lowell and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes. In the fiction, the men, while working on the poem, find themselves on the trail of a serial killer who tortures his victims in ways that seem to be lifted out of the pages of “Inferno.” The members' unique knowledge of Dante's work is called upon by police to help catch the killer.

The Alvin Sherman Library is located on the Nova Southeastern University campus on Ray Ferrero, Jr. Boulevard off SW 30 th Street, between University Drive and College Avenue . Public parking is available in the parking garage and costs $1.00 per hour. Make note of your parking space number and pay in advance at one of the meters located near the elevator in the southeast corner of the garage. You may add time at a meter located in the library near the Connections Café entrance.

For more information, call (954) 262-5477.