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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.

The Nasty Wife

by Jeffrey Meyers Jim, my greatly admired friend, taught at Berkeley and was the brilliant biographer of Thomas Mann.  I’d reviewed his earlier volumes; and…

Parting with Mercedes

by Jeffrey Meyers Though it was part of my self-image, I reluctantly decided to sell my 2013 silver-grey Mercedes.  It was becoming more difficult for…

Death of a Child

by Jeffrey Meyers Party, a college town in Montana, is surrounded by high mountains and immersed in thin air that cuts off the supply of…

Igor: A Tragic History

by Jeffrey Meyers After reading Igor’s flattering obituary I remembered his real character.  He was a friend and, in the end, became intolerable.  His gradual…

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Which Political Leader is Described?

by Jeffrey Meyers “He never worked in the accepted sense of the word.  He never read any books or magazines and never felt any need…

Tolstoy’s Governess

by Jeffrey Meyers I was a young English woman, well educated, innocent and unworldly, but spirited and in search of adventure for which I was…

Waste

by Jeffrey Meyers “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive.” —Wordsworth “You wouldn’t want to see her, and she wouldn’t want you to…

Shame

by Jeffrey Meyers I woke in a dark room from a troubled dream and didn’t at first know where I was.  Then I remembered that…




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