“My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, ass...” — Matthew Pearl Quote

My high school English teacher in junior year, Dr. Robert Parsons, assigned us some Poe stories, including 'The Black Cat' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Being an animal person, I had trouble with 'The Black Cat!' I got hooked instead by 'The Purloined Letter,' a Poe story with detective C. Auguste Dupin.

There's a remarkable power about reading together, reading collectively, that's brought out by reading groups.

If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution.

I still have my high school copy of the collected Poe - missing its covers and pretty worse for the wear.

I was born in 1943 and raised in the Bronx, in a high rise apartment complex known as Parkchester, the only child of Max, an accountant who worked in the garment district in Manhattan, and Rose, an elementary school teacher.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Well, any teacher or coach derives his greatest pleasure in their profession or their process when they see their pupil succeed, so I would say I definitely enjoy that part of the game.

I was terrified of girls until sophomore year of high school. I couldn't even borrow pencils from them. I'd have to wait until the teacher called me out on it, like, 'Does anybody have a pencil for Teddy?' because I'd be too scared to ask the girl next to me.