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Jeffrey Meyers, FRSL, had thirty-four books translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents.  Forty-Three Ways of Looking at Hemingway came out with LSU Press in November 2025.  The Biographer’s Quest appeared with Mercer University Press in April 2026.

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…

Sex, Lies and Voyeurs

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…

Fallen Friends at Fallen Leaf

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…

Hermann Kafka’s Defense: A Letter to My Son

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…

Worshipping the Golden Calf

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…




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