Archive - February 14, 2012

Letters From Moritz Thomsen by Christopher West Davis (Kenya 1975–78) Create Space $ 11.95 (paperback) 137 pages 2010 Review by John Coyne (Ethiopia 1962-64) WHEN YOU OPEN A BOOK and read the first paragraph that begins: One lazy spring afternoon in 1981, a high school friend from New York, Peter L., showed up at the door of my basement apartment in Washington, D.C. with a scruffy old geezer in tow. The old guy was writer Moritz Thomsen, 64 at the time, once dubbed “the greatest American writer you’ve never heard of,” who was making a rare trip north from his self-imposed exile in Ecuador to visit his literary friends and agent in New York, and take the train down here to D.C. to attend a lecture by another of his friends, Paul Theroux, at the Library of  Congress. Well, you know you are dealing with a real writer. Christopher West Davis is . . .