Jeffrey Meyers
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Jeffrey Meyers

Show BioHide BioWebsiteJeffrey 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.

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Serf’s Up!

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by Jeffrey Meyers Get the book! The Satirist - America's Most Critical Book (Volume 1) The Satirist: America's Most Critical Book Online Ads Amazon Ads Note: The Satirist participates in the Amazon Associates program, and thus may earn small amounts of money i... More »

Which Political Leader is Described?

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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 to.”  “An utter ignoramus, he was barely literate and did not like to study problems in detail.”  “In later years, ... More »

Tolstoy’s Governess

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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 not prepared.  My aunt Constance Garnett, who translated Leo Tolstoy’s novels, had just returned from a visit to Ya... More »

Waste

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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 see her.”  These shocking words brought back a rush of memories.  Berkeley in the Sixties: the elegant avenues, t... More »

Shame

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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 I was in a cheap hotel.  The furnishings were stark and ugly—your basic room.  I opened the curtains and the sun glinted off the ... More »

Sex, Lies and Voyeurs

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by Jeffrey Meyers Family fights are the worst; they leave the deepest wounds and cause the greatest pain.  Since everyone’s version of what happened was contradictory and self-serving, it was impossible to know what actually occurred.  The clash of volatil... More »

Fallen Friends at Fallen Leaf

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Roger chugged up to the woodsy landing in a metal rowboat with a spluttering outboard motor.  He wore a slouch hat, torn shirt, baggy trousers and moccasins without socks.  His mouth hung open to exaggerate his surprise and welcome.  He beamed at me with hi... More »

Hermann Kafka’s Defense: A Letter to My Son

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In cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked ’twixt son and father. —King Lear Mein lieber Sohn, I just found your ranting “Letter to His Father” hidden in your mother’s drawer.  Too bad you didn’t have the... More »

Worshipping the Golden Calf

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He had made it a molten calf: and they said: “These be thy gods.” —Exodus 32:4 Desperate, despised and dumb, a dancing bear, With Musso’s scowl, small hands and gilded hair. His puerile tantrums and his infant’s rage So ill become a statesman and a s... More »

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