South from Granada by Gerald Brenan (1957). As a teenager in the British Army, Gerald Brenan won a Military Cross in World War I. His…
Posts published by “Jeffrey Meyers”
Jeffrey Meyers, FRSL, has had thirty-three books translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents. He’s published Robert Lowell in Love and The Mystery of the Real: Correspondence with Alex Colville in 2016, Resurrections: Authors, Heroes—and a Spy in 2018.
On a Favorite Hamster, Drowned in an Airport Toilet by Jeffrey Meyers The agent said “no rodents on the plane, No comfort here, he must…
Moment by Jeffrey Meyers Our life conspires to blot out hopes of bliss: Envious rivals, jealous of success, Betrayers whose soft brains have creased A…
by Jeffrey Meyers After teaching in Japan for a year, my wife and I took the long way home through Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, India,…
Tennis Memories by Jeffrey Meyers Much have I traveled in the realms of tennis, and many goodly states and playgrounds seen. Now that injuries have…
Trump’s Fake Assassination Jeffrey Meyers Persuasive evidence suggests that Donald Trump deliberately faked his attempted assassination on July 13 to get excellent publicity, create a…
by Jeffrey Meyers Gaza on the Mediterranean sea has always been a contested land, and for centuries many different people have lived and fought there. …
The Persian Version by Jeffrey Meyers In June 1971 my wife and I drove across Turkey in a Volkswagen bug without seat belts or air…
Japan and Korea: Delights and Horrors by Jeffrey Meyers After completing my two-year appointment at UCLA in 1965 and leaving my year-long English girlfriend there,…
by Jeffrey Meyers As a college student I’d been traveling alone for a month through Greece, Yugoslavia and Germany, where I didn’t know the languages,…
by Jeffrey Meyers Rereading James Salter’s delightful Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days reminded me of the best meals in my life,…
by Jeffrey Meyers The acid age twists in its savage state The slaughter of Armenia at Lake Van His mother starving died within his…
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