E.J. Simon on Using Westport In Fiction

Best-selling author E.J. Simon will be presenting a visual tour of his thrillers at The Westport Historical Society on Saturday, March 7th at 1pm.

 

I’m fortunate to be a fiction writer who lives in Westport. I am also fortunate that Westport has some great restaurants because food and restaurants play prominent roles in my novels. Mario’s, Arezzo, Rustico, and Matsu Sushi are just a few of my favorites – and I’ve used each of them as the settings for chapters in my two books, Death Never Sleeps and Death Logs In - and my upcoming third installment, Death Logs Out. I believe, including dining and restaurant scenes is a great way of connecting readers to characters, while at the same time humanizing them – good or bad, we all eat. I also believe scenes that take place over a meal lightens up serious subjects - usually, it’s at dinner that we learn so many things - upcoming births, imminent deaths, marriages, divorces; perhaps, even your own.

Westport is picturesque, a cute yet sophisticated town on the water – it’s a great setting, that quintessential New England town, a place that readers would love to visit or, if they cant, easily imagine. For these reasons and many more it has always been a popular setting for not only books but feature films and television episodes – from classics like Bewitched, I Love Lucy, and The Twilight Zone, to General Hospital, and The West Wing.

Marilyn Chambers, the once angelic face on an Ivory Snow box who went on to become a legendary porn star, attended Staples High School. Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Martha Stewart, Farrah Fawcett, Bette Davis, Michael Douglas, Tom Cruise – and, even Harvey Weinstein – have all called Westport home which only adds to the aura, making the reality of Westport blend right into the fantasy.

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Submitted by Wilton, CT

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