Aug 16, 2010
The Steal
Just back from Bournemouth, on England’s Riviera ( aka the south coast) after a very exciting & productive four days plotting out a political/crime thriller with the brilliant Lorrie Sheehy, aka Callie Lane, who is concurrently writing the screenplay for The Poet and the Murderer. After spending 25 years mostly writing on my own it is fantastic to collaborate, inventing scenes and dialogue at... read more
May 27, 2010
The Very White of Love
This weekend marks the 70th. anniversary of the epic withdrawal from Dunkirk, in which 330,000 allied troops were plucked from the beaches after the collapse of the British Expeditionary Force’s campaign in France and Belgium. Many British soldiers did not make it home. One of them was my mother’s fiance, Martin Preston, nephew of the poet Robert Graves and an aspiring poet himself. He was... read more
May 15, 2010
Journey to Ki ( Kindle Edition)
I am pleased to announce that Journey to Ki, the story of my Himalayan odyssey to the highest monastery in the world, has just been published on Kindle ( http://tinyurl.com/2cogfly ) Ki lies behind the Inner Line, a militarised buffer zone between India and Chinese Tibet, in the formidable Spiti Valley. As a result of its seclusion, the ancient Tibetan way of life and culture has been preserved in a way it... read more
May 10, 2010
Dead Man Provenance/Journey to Ki
I have just uploaded to Kindle a new, revised and updated e-version of Dead Man Provenance ( http://tinyurl.com/24p88yg), the magazine story first published in The Paris Review, which formed the basis of my book, The Poet & The Murderer. It tells the story of a forged Emily Dickinson poem that turns up mysteriously at Sotheby’s. As I investigate its provenance, I stumble on a story stranger than... read more
May 3, 2010
Save Stonybrook Southampton: Axe the Fat Cats
An issue that is galvanising the local community here on the East End of Long Island, where I spend part of the year, is the proposed closure of Stonybrook’s Southampton Campus. The main mover behind the scheme is the President of Stonybrook, Samuel L. Stanley, a technocrat who has betrayed all the promises made to the local community to ensure that the Southampton Campus has a long-term future. The... read more
May 3, 2010
Of Volcanos and Baldrick; Dojo Films; Beckett, Clegg and Coleridge.
It’s a rainy day on Long Island, I got back here last week, after being stuck ” under the volcano ” in Britain for a week. It was irritating at the time. But, in fact, it worked out well. It gave me a few more days at home and enabled me to attend a meeting about a television documentary I am co-producing with my chum Stephen Hopkins, a man of wry humour and vast experience as far as TV... read more
Simon Worrall was born in Wellington, England and spent his childhood in Eritrea, Paris and Singapore. He has written for publications all over the world, including National Geographic, Smithsonian, London Times, The Guardian, Paris Review, GQ, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Conde Nast Traveler, Maxim, Playboy,Die Zeit and the New Statesman. He divides his time between Herefordshire and the East End of Long Island.
