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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 heroic image and fortify his presidential campaign. Several important as... More »
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 conditioning and reached Iran during the fading years of the Shah, who would flee the country in 1979. Fifty years ago Iran, cl... More »
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, I had a longing to travel and spent the next year teaching college courses for air force personn... More »
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, and had scarcely spoken to anyone all that time. When I boarded the Rhine River boat in Heidelberg I sa... More »
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, when the food was excellent and the atmosphere and people were even more important. At their finest, these dinners ... More »
by Jeffrey Meyers The acid age twists in its savage state The slaughter of Armenia at Lake Van His mother starving died within his arms His ancestors’ remains lived far away The flux of childhood, biting memories The devastation of his damaged youth. ... More »
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 when I left teaching and moved back to northern California, I looked him up and we immediately hit i... More »
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 me to get in and out of the car. The very low front was easily scraped and damaged. The car had to be to... More »
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 oxygen to the brain. The town has a weird Magic Mountain-like climate: hot spells in January, snowstorms in July and flas... More »
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 transformation from weirdness to madness was fearful and tragic. We first met when I was a grad... More »
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