Rob Couteau:Publications

Rob Couteau, Paris, 1991




May 2024: "If, perchance, From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter sounds familiar, that's because Francis Carco's memoir was first published in 1927. This annotated edition makes his work more accessible to a wider audience, includes Rob Couteau's analytical Introduction and a new Afterword by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, and follows the experiences of an 1886 poet, artist, and traveler who fell into a close, supportive association with bohemian Paris. There the young man creatively blossomed, immersed in the arts and producing over a hundred books that ranged from poetry to his own astute analyses of other artists, including a critical essay on Modigliani which revealed the man's value at a point where other French critics scoffed at his works.

From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter is more than your typical biography. It assumes the atmospheric draw of a Proust production with its 'you are here' survey of Paris' artistic community. Couteau's footnotes add critical reflections and interpretations key to understanding Carco's objectives and perspectives. Both Carco and researcher Rob Couteau create compelling observations, insights, and historical value, but couch these in lively language and passages that should reach into general-interest audiences who hold an appreciation for all things Parisian and for its arts community of the early 1900s. Its survey of friendships, relationships, and the artistic promise quashed by events of the Great War create a lively, memorable read especially recommended for those who appreciate in-depth footnoted references. These enlighten readers on facets of Carco's life that might otherwise slip by with a reading of the memoir alone.

All these facets make From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter an astute historical and literary memoir that embraces the arts, social and political milieu, and powerful perspectives of the times. Libraries (including general-interest collections as well as college-level holdings strong in memoirs and artist history) will find it easy to recommend From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter for its thoroughly engrossing, richly realistic passages, firmly embedded in Carco's life and the creations and influences of 1900s Paris." - Diane Donovan, Senior Editor, Midwest Book Review




October 20, 2023: Several weeks after our meeting in London, Sylvette David completed this painting, titled "Self-portrait with Rob Couteau (Love Across the Ocean and Sky)." Devon, England. Oil on canvas board. 39 x 19 inches.




September 30, 2023: Seated beside Picasso's model and muse, Sylvette David, who turns 89 this November. Although we've been in touch since 2017, we've never before met in person. Standing behind us are two other dear friends, Liz and Rachel, sisters, who are the direct descendants of Charles Beadle, author of the censored novel Dark Refuge (1938). Liz was instrumental in providing me with photos and documents for my biography on Beadle. The setting is the Soho Home Studio of York Square, London, where Sylvette's paintings were on display, along with Picasso's drawings and etchings.


MidwestBookReview

May 2023: Midwest Book Review features an enthusiastic and insightful review of my memoir, INTIMATE SOUVENIRS. Senior editor Diane Donovan writes:"As Couteau moves through different worlds (including France), encountering literary, artistic, and social figures, he finds a new sense of home, place, and purpose which translates to social and philosophical revelations about life, religion, and the world. Ultimately, his very method of engaging with other worlds is what links readers to his life and the exuberant march of its encounters and revelations.... Five hundred pages go by in the blink of an eye as readers absorb an intriguing memoir that deserves a place in any library strong in memoirs that embrace literary, artistic, and social transformation." - Diane Donovan, Senior Editor, Midwest Book Review. Order info here.



April 15, 2023: Publication of my memoir, INTIMATE SOUVENIRS. "Here we have a new, possibly classic memoir of New York. It begins in Gravesend, Brooklyn, and moves outward, to Manhattan and Paris ... That there still exists a path to a writer's life that is not a dutiful march through creative writing academies, with perhaps the apotheosis of becoming a teacher of yet more academy-shaped writers, is heartening to learn. Couteau does not make fun of that approach nor of any other, but he does model something much different, and to see him continuing to write books like this one, which well deserves a place on his already considerable shelf of valued books, is excellent news." - Robert Roper, author of Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita and Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War. Order info here.




April 13, 2023: Publication of Stanley Marks' visionary play, A Murder Most Foul! A Three-Act Play About the JFK Assassination. Introduction by Rob Couteau. Afterword by James DiEugenio. On February 19, 1968, author Stanley Marks copyrighted his first play, a visionary attempt to penetrate the Deep Politics matrix of the JFK assassination. Among other things, the play predicts the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, which occurred only 3 1/2 months later; as well as the eventual presidential election of Ronald Reagan. This manuscript sat in a Library of Congress box collecting dust until today, when it was published in book form for the very first time. "Attorney Stanley Marks was one of the very few people in America who read both the 888 page Warren Commission Report and the accompanying 26 volumes of testimony and exhibits. Out of that mountain of material, his book features 975 questions for the prosecution. In a relentless and blistering manner, he showed why the case against Oswald should not go to trial. In other words, he stopped the Commission right out of the starting gate.... I could go on and on about the critical acuity and comprehensiveness of Stanley Marks' work and how it differs in kind from that of other first-generation critics.... What is so remarkable about Stanley is that his analytical efforts were not enough for the man. He attempted to bring this heinous crime to the attention of the public through his efforts as a playwright. And, thanks to Couteau, we now have his play about the assassination of President Kennedy." - Scholar and historian James DiEugenio, the world's leading authority on the JFK case, author of Destiny Betrayed and The JFK Assassination, and screenwriter of Oliver Stone's documentary, JFK Revisited. Order info here.


Black Op Radio

April 13, 2023: It was a great honor and a great pleasure to be interviewed by Leonard Osanic on his amazing broadcast, BLACK OP RADIO (show 1142). Len has been providing weekly interviews - fifty-two a year - for decades now, and he remains one of the best-informed researchers on the SIxties assassinations. This is my fourth in-depth interview with Len, and, as always, it seemed to go by in a flash -- even though we spoke for almost ninety minutes about Stanley Marks' visionary play, A Murder Most Foul! A Three-Act Play About the JFK Assassination. Among other things we discuss how Bob Dylan's ballad "Murder Most Foul" led to the rediscovery of this brilliant author.
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February 2023: Now available for the first time since 1938: Charles Beadle's notorious confessionalist novel, DARK REFUGE. Originally published by Jack Kahane’s Obelisk Press in Paris and censored throughout the Anglo-Saxon world, Dark Refuge is an unrecognized modernist masterpiece that quickly fell into obscurity. It contains thinly disguised portraits of Modigliani, Max Jacob, Beatrice Hastings, Léopold Zborowski, and various other figures who haunted the Parisian demimonde of the 1910s and 1920s. Beadle’s brazen portrayal of drug fueled pansexual orgies prevented the chronicle from being distributed outside of Paris despite its literary merit and lyrical beauty. Features my 26,000-word Afterword, "The Dark Refuge of Charles Beadle," the first in-depth biographical essay on this prolific novelist. Also includes a Postscript by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, author of The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960 (Grove). Order here.


MidwestBookReview

November 2022: The Midwest Book Review is featuring an insightful review of our new book project: the reissuing of a literary classic, DARK REFUGE, by Charles Beadle. Senior editor Diane Donovan writes:

Dark Refuge appears in print for the first time since its original publication in 1938, presenting a world traveler’s experiences with bohemian life in Paris in a novel that also serves (thanks to Rob Couteau) as a biography of Beadle’s life. Extensive annotated references link Beadle’s experiences to his fictional representations, offering a literary backdrop for understanding both the atmosphere and progression of his fiction and its roots in reality. Readers should be prepared for a sexual romp that is ribald, explicit, and thoroughly steeped in Beadle’s personal experiences of the times. Beadle’s language is evocative, poetic, and dramatic.... Whether exploring drug experiments and the revelations that follow them or descending into the sordid and colorful world of bohemian Paris, Beadle flavors all of his impressions with the same attention to flowery detail that makes his writing so timeless... Pair this with the extensive notes and annotated references Couteau injects to not just explain but expand the story, for a sense of the unique literary and historical importance of this reappearance of Beadle’s rare classic, which has been out of print for far too long. Libraries seeking literary representations of the marriage between fiction and nonfiction will find Dark Refuge a fine example. The 200+ annotated notes come from previously unpublished letters and documents, combining with photos and historical reviews to represent a hallmark of not only literary fiction, but biographical research. Dark Refuge deserves a place in any library strong in works of literature that represent the intersection between fictional devices and biographical inspection, whether or not there is prior knowledge of or interest in Beadle’s works and importance.” – Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review

 

September 2022: Three chapters from my upcoming picaresque, INTIMATE SOUVENIRS, have just been featured in the new Talisman. One story takes place in Brooklyn, one in Manhattan, and one in Paris. Thanks to Ed Foster, Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, and Bronwyn Mills, who edited this edition of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.




July 2022: ‘A Memorial to Writers Known and Unknown.’ My interview with British TV actor and author Neil Pearson about his book 'Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press.' Kahane was a fearless independent publisher of banned books, including Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and work by Lawrence Durrell, Anais Nin, and James Hanley. Kahane's son, Maurice Girodias, continued the tradition with his Olympia Press and was the first publisher of William Burroughs’ Naked Lunch, J. P. Donleavy’s The Ginger Man, Candy by Mason Hoffenberg and Terry Southern, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, and the English-language translation of Story of O by “Pauline Réage” (Anne Desclos). Neil was kind enough to share his Charles Beadle archive with me while I was preparing a new edition of Beadle's banned novel, Dark Refuge, a book that we discuss at length here.


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July 2022: My book on Léon Angély was just reviewed in the New Art Examiner by Scott Sublett, professor of screenwriting, playwriting, and film history at San Jose State University; author of "Screenwriting for Neurotics"; and a regular contributor to the New Art Examiner. He writes: "In his strange, fascinating new book, A Blind Man Crazy for Color, writer-painter Rob Couteau assembles and unearths what little can be known about the mysterious collector Léon Angély, a bald, fat, retired solicitor’s clerk who gambled what small money he had on the dream of assembling a collection that could someday finance a luxurious retirement in Nice."


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June 2022: The international journal Witty Partition features a wonderful review of my new biography: "This is the story of Léon Angély, the myopic lover of art, and Joséphine, the "eyes" of Angély, the girl who enabled him to visit artists and "see" their art. The story is told with a rare grace by author Rob Couteau in his new book, A Blind Man Crazy for Color; excerpts from this charming book are presented in the pages that follow. Couteau has mined the literature for gems, and displays them with abandon, through the generous quotations and anecdotes set within his own own lustrous prose. The fine text is accompanied by enchanting illustrations by Sylvette David. In David, the book finds both painter and participant in the milieu Angély so loved: in 1954, David began modeling for Picasso, becoming the "girl with the ponytail" in hundreds of works, including the artist's monumental sculpture, Sylvette, in Rotterdam. We are grateful to Couteau, David, and their publisher for allowing us to excerpt both prose and images from A Blind Man Crazy for Color. We found the friendship of Léon and Joséphine a balm for our souls..."


MidwestBookReview

May 2022: The Midwest Book Review is featuring a beautifully written essay on my new book. Senior editor Diane Donovan writes:

"A Blind Man Crazy for Color: A Tribute to Léon Angély" documents an early 20th century retired clerk who collected art by Picasso, Modigliani, and Utrillo before these artists were famous. Despite his failing vision, Léon Angély could see the promise of these artists before those around him acknowledged their talents. He employed a young girl to help him make his selections when his sight no longer permitted him to personally enjoy them.

The book is illustrated with original artwork by Picasso's model and muse, Sylvette David, who posed for the painter in 1954 when she was only nineteen years old. Her black and white and color sketches accent this colorful portrait of Léon's life, motivations, involvement in the art world, and the pieces he collected.

Previously unpublished information about the blind man's passion and his influence on the art world enhances a survey that should be required reading and acquisition for any serious art history student and the libraries catering to them.

The well-researched treatise is supported by documentation that ranges from birth and death certifications to Rob Couteau's personal research into Sylvette David who, at eighty-seven, adds her memories to the story to expand reader insights about both Picasso and David's life and their art involvements.

Readers also receive revealing inspections of the process of interviewing artists and capturing their historical and artistic impact, adding to A Blind Man Crazy for Color's importance as a survey that goes beyond a singular biography of an art enthusiast to delve into the world of artists, art appreciation, and muses.

The blend of all these elements demonstrates the interlinked potentials and importance of artists, muses, and those who appreciate, purchase, and analyze their work: "Although he died impoverished and nearly forgotten, and although the identity of his youthful guide is still enshrouded in mystery, le Père Angély helped to preserve what Richardson calls the “sacred stuff of art” – regardless of whether his motivation was merely pecuniary. Léon and Joséphine may also have inspired the greatest artist of the twentieth century."

Serious art libraries should consider this extraordinary recreation of artistic ambitions against all odds a mainstay that stands out in many different ways.



May 2022: Since 1976, Bob Barrett has interviewed thousands of guests on his various radio programs and has been hosting on public radio since 2001. I'm deeply honored that he chose me to be the guest for his final show, which was recorded on WAMC's "The Best of Our Knowledge" program on April 18, and which will be broadcast in the next few weeks. Bob interviews me about my new book, A BLIND MAN CRAZY FOR COLOR: a biography of the art collector Léon Angély.


LEON-ANGELY-BIOGRAPHY

April 2022: In the early years of the twentieth century, a retired legal clerk in Montmartre named Léon Angély collected Picassos, Modiglianis, and Utrillos before any of these artists were well known. And he purchased many of these creations after his failing vision left him almost completely blind. Legend has it that Léon was assisted by a young girl who served as his "eyes," and based on her description of the work he would make his selections. This homage to the 'blind man who was crazy for color' uncovers previously unknown information about this important yet largely forgotten figure who inspired one of Picasso's most powerful engravings, featuring a 'Blind Minotaur' being led by a little girl. The book is illustrated with original artwork by Picasso's model and muse, Sylvette David, who posed for the painter when she was only nineteen years old, in 1954. Now eighty-seven, Sylvette credits Picasso with inspiring her to devote her life to painting. Her work is frequently exhibited in Europe, and in 2021 she was invited to lecture at the Musée Picasso is Paris. Includes 16 black-and-white and 25 color illustrations. Available internationally at these book sellers.



November 2021: It's a great honor to have my essay "Politics as (Un)usual: Stanley J. Marks and Coup d’État!" featured in Garrison: A Journal of History and Deep Politics. Thanks to editor S.T. Patrick for inviting me to participate in this groundbreaking 348-page anthology on the Sixties assassinations. Includes work by James DiEugenio, author of Destiny Betrayed; Dr. Cyril Wecht, former president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences; and many other notable authors and researchers. A rare glimpse at authentic, uncensored journalism in the United States, Garrison is published as a quarterly and welcomes subscriptions.



October 2021: Now available for the first time since February 1970: Stanley J. Marks' Coup d'Etat, with an Introduction by Rob Couteau. "A good book by a keen and knowledgeable attorney. Rob Couteau has done a service by bringing these books back. Marks was a buried gem." -- James DiEugenio, the foremost scholar of the JFK assassination and author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case. DiEugenio is also the screenwriter of Oliver Stone's documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021).




September 2021: "Par instants" is a fascnating memoir about the life of a translator. Special thanks to the author for including some amusing anecdotes about the assistance I gave him in translating the letters of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, published by Gallimard. Nicolas Richard has translated over a hundred books of Anglo-Saxon literature, including the French edition of Ginsberg's epic poem, Howl, which we worked on this fall. Régis Roinsard, director of the film "The Translators," partially based the character of "Oscar Brach" on Nicolas, whom the director interviewed while working on the screenplay of the film.





August 2021: Read my interview with poet, publisher, and literary critic Ed Foster: Emanations of Pan, hosted at the Dichtung Yammer website. Ed discusses his new book, A Looking-Glass for Traytors (Marsh Hawk Press, 2021).





15 April 2021: Diane Donovan reviews my new collection of poems in both Donovan's Bookshelf and the Midwest Book Review.
"SELECTED POEMS features 101 poems, 40 of which have been printed in numerous print and online journals since 1985. The rest are new to this collection, and represent a satisfying blend of old and new works designed to appeal to newcomers and prior fans alike. Rob Couteau's works are diverse. They follow no set poetic structure, even defying some of them when the muse strikes and special needs indicate that the subject is more important than poetic form.... His inspections of artistic, literary, and social issues are astute and compelling.... Don't anticipate set structures, uniform poetic approaches, or singular subjects here. SELECTED POEMS offers a freewheeling approach to poems and life alike, and is a thought provoking, evocative gathering of works recommended for literary readers not bound by convention or rules." With an Introduction by the poet, critic, and literary historian Edward Foster. Available on Amazon and internationally on Bookfinder.


Black Op Radio

15 December 2020:
Black Op Radio interview about my reissuing of the book MURDER MOST FOUL! THE CONSPIRACY THAT MURDERED PRESIDENT KENNEDY by Stanley J Marks. This was a very special event because my dear friend Bobbie Marks, the daughter of the author, was on the show with me. Bobbie shares special memories of her father and his extraordinary work. Please tune in for a unique experience.



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8 December 2020: Stanley J. Marks' TWO DAYS OF INFAMY is now back in print for the first time since March 1969. It also features my Introduction, "The Stanley Marks Revival: The Prophecies of Murder Most Foul! and Two Days of Infamy." An abridged version of this essay is hosted at the Kennedys and King website. JFK scholar and author James DiEugenio writes: "Rob Couteau has performed a miraculous deed. He has gotten two of the late Stanley Marks' books on the JFK case republished. Marks was way ahead of the field. While people like Harold Weisberg and Josiah Thompson were still counting bullets, he was calling JFK's death a coup d'etat. That is the perspective he wrote from way back in the late sixties. Don't pass up the chance to meet up with a prophet. Read both of these books. You will be shocked by the insight in them." For purchase info on TWO DAYS OF INFAMY go here.




5 December 2020: The Stanley Marks Revival: The Prophecies of Murder Most Foul! and Two Days of Infamy. Thanks to JFK scholar Jim DiEugenio for inviting me to review MURDER MOST FOUL! and TWO DAYS OF INFAMY for the Kennedys and King web site. DiEugenio writes: "Rob Couteau continues his rediscovery and revitalization of the long-forgotten works of Stanley Marks by announcing the reprinting of Murder Most Foul! and Two Days of Infamy and exploring here the prophecies and prescience of Marks in these two works," adding: "Stanley Marks was an overlooked star of the JFK research community. Thanks to Rob and Dylan for being able to unearth him."


Murder Most Foul! The Conspiracy That Murdered President Kennedy

4 November 2020: Stanley J. Marks' MURDER MOST FOUL! is now back in print for the first time since September 1967. Includes my in-depth biographical essay on the blacklisted author's groundbreaking work and how it may have influenced Bob Dylan's JFK ballad of the same name. JFK scholar Jim DiEugenio writes: "Couteau's work is important, first-rate, and a wonderful homage to one of the most important critics of the Warren Report ever ... and an unsung hero in the JFK case. Stanley Marks was rocket miles ahead of everyone. He really understood the big picture early. And not just on the JFK case." DiEugenio is the foremost scholar on the Kennedy assassination, author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case, and scriptwriter for Oliver Stone's documentary, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021). 400 pages, with illustrations. Available at Amazon USA, UK, Spain, France; and Canada and Australia; B&N, Bookfinder, and various other worldwide outlets.


Black Op Radio

30 July 2020:
Black Op Radio interview about my new article at Kennedys and KIng: "Stanley J. Marks and Murder Most Foul!"




June 2020: Stanley J. Marks and Murder Most Foul!—A Sequel to “The Kennedy / Dylan Sensation.” JFK scholar Jim DiEugenio writes: “Rob Couteau does a wonderful homage here. I really mean it’s first-rate. Stanley Marks was rocket miles ahead of everyone. He really understood the big picture early. And not just on the JFK case." 




March-April 2020:  A newly revised edition of my novel Doctor Pluss has just been published (order on Amazon here), and the April issue of Midwest Book Review is featuring a glowing review, written by Diane Donovan, who says: "Doctor Pluss is exceptionally well developed and emotionally compelling, connecting metaphorical description with experienes s that often challenge the traditional roles of doctor and patient, linking them in unexpected ways … Couteau is not afraid to push the literary boundaries of convention in pursuit of a different form of descriptive truth, bringing readers along in a rollicking ride through schizophrenic experience that ultimately questions the foundations of reality and perception from both sides of the therapist's couch … His interpretations and descriptions of the schizophrenic experience are particularly astute, astonishing, and evocatively described … Readers who choose Doctor Pluss are in for a treat. It's like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on steroids: a thought-provoking examination of sanity, insanity, and the crossover process that leaves readers thinking long after this therapeutic slice of life is consumed." For the complete review go here.

 


9 February 2020: Fourteen of my prose poems are featured in the annual edition of Talisman, along with The Cantankerous Krishnamurti, a reminisce about the renowned philosopher and author, Jiddu Krishnamurti.


 23 September 2019: The Tragic ‘Years of Lead’: Puppetmasters Author Philip Willan Talks about the Manipulation of Terrorism, the Global War on the Left, and the Links between the JFK and Aldo Moro Assassinations. A prolific journalist with the UK's Guardian and London Times newspapers, Philip Willan's books include "Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy" (1991) and "The Vatican at War" (2013), which is focused on the scandals of the Vatican bank and how it may have been linked to funding right-wing terror. In our interview Willan also discusses the manipulation of the Red Brigades by Western security forces and the global war on the left during the Cold War period (1945-1990).

 

Black Op Radio

18 July 2019: Len Osanic interviews me on Black Op Radio about my new article at KennedysandKIng: "NATO’s Secret Armies, Operation Gladio, and JFK"

 

15 July 2019: Author James DiEugenio writes: "There is the Big Picture and then there is the World Wide Picture. This article by Rob Couteau addresses the latter. Using powerful work by authors like Daniele Ganser and Phillip Willan about Gladio, and Michele Metta’s revelatory volume on Permindex, Rob Couteau’s milestone article shows how the murders of Kennedy and Moro, and the attempts on De Gaulle, were not isolated events." NATO’s Secret Armies, Operation Gladio, and JFK, featured at KennedysandKing.com.

 

January 2019: "Crawling King Snake," an excerpt from my fictional picaresque, is featured in the 2019 edition of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.

 

June 2018: Part Two of my interview with Picasso's model and muse, Sylvette David, now on Youtube: Sylvette David talks about her paintings in a conversation with Rob Couteau

 

March 2018: Interview with Danny Goldberg, former president of Atlantic Records, founder of Gold Village Entertainment, and author of "In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea." Featured in the Rain Taxi Review.

 

January 2018: Interview with Sylvette David, Picasso's model and muse, and author of the memoir "I Was Sylvette." An abridged version of this interview is also featured in the January 2018 edition of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (online).

 

January 2018: Five poems from various collections are now featured in the 2018 edition of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.

 

October 2017: "The American Dream in Reverse," an excerpt from my picaresque, WONDER, is featured in 'From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream' (Autonomedia, NY). This anthology also includes work by Ed Sanders, Arthur Nersesian, Eve Packer, Samuel Delany, Tuli Kupferberg, Elaine Equi, and Bob Holman. Special thanks to editor Ron Kolm.

 

June 2017: Two of my large oil paintings on exhibit at the Roshkowska Galleries in Windham, NY.

 

January 10, 2017: Three prose excerpts from my fictional picaresque were just featured in the 2017 edition of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.

 

December 2016. Thanks to Michael Webster, editor of Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, for reviewing my essay on the previously unknown family history of Marion Morehouse, published in my book More Collected Couteau.

 

October 2016. "The Anglo-French Connection: A Brief Foray into the Maternal Genealogy of Scofield Thayer," featured in the Worcester Review. The literary patron and friend of E. E. Cummings, from 1920 to 1926 Thayer was also the publisher and editor of the Dial, the most influential literary magazine in America.

 

October 2016. ‘If you are a poet, you help other poets.’ A Conversation with the Poet, Publisher, and Literary Historian Edward Halsey Foster.

 

March 9, 2016. More Collected Couteau received a glowing review from the Midwest Book Review: "The joy of reading Couteau's works lies as much in his penetrating, crystalline language as it does in the works or figures being examined, and so readers receive a wide-ranging treat that examines victims, vengeance, mortality and immortality through an inspection process that educates even those unfamiliar with the subject [...] Readers seeking not just a literary presentation but a lively analysis of selected wordsmiths and their lives and influences must add More Collected Couteau to their reading lists. It's a powerful presentation that offers much insight and food for thought, and which should find its way into many a college classroom as well." See the complete review here. Available on amazon.

 

February 5, 2016. My new book of literary essays and interviews, More Collected Couteau, was just reviewed by Publishers Weekly, Select: "Couteau's essays are informal, fervent, and well-versed examinations of the work or author at hand. At their best, they include fascinating insights into the significance of a writer like [Hubert] Selby.... The interviews are uniformly strong and include conversations with Michael Korda on T.E. Lawrence, Justin Kaplan on Walt Whitman, and Robert Roper on Vladimir Nabokov. Not all of them focus on literature: author Jeffrey Jackson covers the 1910 flood of Paris and why it's relatively forgotten, and Robert De Sena, in one of the best interviews, discusses his life as a gang member turned community activist. Couteau's passion and wealth of knowledge are obvious throughout the book ... and should appeal to many readers." Complete review here. Available on amazon.

 

December 2015: My artwork is now represented by the Roshkowska Galleries.

 

November 2015. My Occupy Wall Street book, Portraits from the Revolution, was just reviewed by Diane Donovan of the Midwest Book Review: “Most American readers will harbor a prior, casual familiarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011 based on newspaper headlines and events of the times; but for a more in-depth survey of the philosophies, approaches, and concerns of the protests, Portraits from the Revolution is the item of choice, offering unprecedented depth and detail on the history and lasting impact of the Occupy Wall Street movement.... If readers wish to gain more than a casual news report’s insights, Portraits from the Revolution is the item of choice." See the complete review. Available in print and e-book formats on amazon.

 

November 2015. My new book of Occupy Wall Street interviews, Portraits from the Revolution, is now available in print and e-book formats on amazon.com.

 

August 2015. A Conversation with Robert Roper, author of
Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita.

 

July 2015. An interview with biographer James Dempsey, author of The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer. Thayer launched E. E. Cummings's career and played a crucial role in promulgating modernism via his magazine, "The Dial," which published T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," Ezra Pound's "The Cantos," and artwork by Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, Lachaise, and Egon Schiele.

 



May 2015. My new essay, over a year in the making, on Marion Morehouse: The first supermodel, the Muse of the art photographer Edward Steichen, and the lifelong companion of the poet E. E. Cummings. Includes newly discovered photos never before made publically available. On the Trail of the 'Elusive' Lillian and Marion Morehouse. Unraveling the genealogical mysteries of the world's first supermodel.

 

My Ray Bradbury interview was cited in The New York Times, April 16, 2015: Reclaiming the Age-Old Art of Getting Lost, by Stephanie Rosenbloom.

 

February 5, 2015. Part Two of my interview with Professor Sawyer-Laucanno, in which we discuss the difference between Eastern and Western philosophy, the writing of poetry, the authors Thomas Bernhard and Octavio Paz, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the Zen master Dogen Zenji. Paying Attention. Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno Discusses His New Book of Poems, The Mussoorie-Montague Miscellany.


February 2, 2015. Read my new interview with Professor Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno, the renowned biographer of E E Cummings. The year 2022 marks the hundredth anniversary of Cummings’s avant-garde World War One memoir, Besides remaining enduringly modern, "The Enormous Room" continues to pose essential questions about free speech in a post-9/11 world. 'When Feeling is First.' A Conversation with Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno About E. E. Cummings's Prose Masterpiece, The Enormous Room.

 



September 2014. The Miracle of Unity. Peace Mediator Robert J. De Sena Discusses How He Offers Gang Members a Way Out. An in-depth interview with an extraordinary mentor.

 

Evergreen Review. February 2013. Book review of Kerouac Ascending: Memorabilia of the Decade of On the Road by Elbert Lenrow.

 



Rain Taxi Review of Books. August 2012. An essay on the most important banned book in American literary history: Abandoning Hope to Discover Life: Commemorating the 51st Anniversary of the Grove Press Edition of "Tropic of Cancer," with a Special Tribute to Barney Rosset.

 

Chloe Potter Interviews Rob Couteau on the death of Ray Bradbury. A radio interview, first broadcast on 6 June 2012 by the international media conglomerate, Monocle 24, based in London.

 

Read my essay on marching with the protestors of Occupy Wall Street, featured in the spring 2012 Evergreen Review: To Crush a Butterfly on the Wheel of a Tank.

 

Mourning the loss of a great publisher: Barney Rosset. I'm honored to be published in the last issue of the Evergreen Review that was edited by him (spring 2012). The former owner of Grove Press and the first American publisher of Henry Miller and Samuel Beckett, Barney led the legal battle to publish D. H. Lawrence's unexpurgated "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, defending the latter in over 60 obscenity trials all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and changing book publishing history forever. He continued to produce the Evergreen Review and he would have turned 90 in May 2012.


In January 2012, I was invited to participate in a Critical Symposium on Last Exit to Brooklyn author Hubert Selby, sponsored by his ebook publisher, Open Road Media. Read my contribution: Hubert Selby: The Counterpoint to the Demon is Love. (This essay is now featured in my book, More Collected Couteau.)

 

December 2010. The Mystery of the Man: Justin Kaplan Talks About America’s Greatest Poet, Walt Whitman. An Interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain; Lincoln Steffens, A Biography; and Walt Whitman, A Life.

 

Accolades & reviews of Rob Couteau's work




"Doctor Pluss is exceptionally well developed and emotionally compelling, connecting metaphorical description with experienes s that often challenge the traditional roles of doctor and patient, linking them in unexpected ways … Couteau is not afraid to push the literary boundaries of convention in pursuit of a different form of descriptive truth, bringing readers along in a rollicking ride through schizophrenic experience that ultimately questions the foundations of reality and perception from both sides of the therapist's couch … His interpretations and descriptions of the schizophrenic experience are particularly astute, astonishing, and evocatively described … Readers who choose Doctor Pluss are in for a treat. It's like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on steroids: a thought-provoking examination of sanity, insanity, and the crossover process that leaves readthinking long after this therapeutic slice of life is consumed."
-- Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review, April 2020.


Michael Webster, editor of Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, reviews the essay "On the Trail of the ‘Elusive’ Lillian and Marion Morehouse. Unraveling the Genealogical Mysteries of the World's First Supermodel," by Rob Couteau. This essay first appeared in print in More Collected Couteau. December 2016.

 

More Collected Couteau: "The joy of reading Couteau's works lies as much in his penetrating, crystalline language as it does in the works or figures being examined, and so readers receive a wide-ranging treat that examines victims, vengeance, mortality and immortality through an inspection process that educates even those unfamiliar with the subject [...] Readers seeking not just a literary presentation but a lively analysis of selected wordsmiths and their lives and influences must add More Collected Couteau to their reading lists. It's a powerful presentation that offers much insight and food for thought, and which should find its way into many a college classroom as well." -- Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review, March 2016.

"Couteau's essays are informal, fervent, and well-versed examinations of the work or author at hand. At their best, they include fascinating insights into the significance of a writer like [Hubert] Selby.... The interviews are uniformly strong and include conversations with Michael Korda on T.E. Lawrence, Justin Kaplan on Walt Whitman, and Robert Roper on Vladimir Nabokov. Not all of them focus on literature: author Jeffrey Jackson covers the 1910 flood of Paris and why it's relatively forgotten, and Robert De Sena, in one of the best interviews, discusses his life as a gang member turned community activist. Couteau's passion and wealth of knowledge are obvious throughout the book ... and should appeal to many readers." -- Publishers Weekly, BookLife, February 2016.

 

Portraits from the Revolution: Interviews with the Protestors from Occupy Wall Street, 30 September - 8 October 2011: "Most American readers will harbor a prior, casual familiarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011 based on newspaper headlines and events of the times; but for a more in-depth survey of the philosophies, approaches, and concerns of the protests, Portraits from the Revolution: Interviews with the Protestors from Occupy Wall Street, 30 September - 8 October 2011 is the item of choice, offering unprecedented depth and detail on the history and lasting impact of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Rob Couteau conducted a series of interviews with movement leaders; and while one might think the contents of these pieces would have been reported by the media - they were not. It's also important to note that Portraits from the Revolution remains the only in-depth text interview of participants that is available: so if readers wish to gain more than a casual news report's insights, Portraits from the Revolution is the item of choice.

Chapters explore not just each individual's actions, but their backgrounds, reasons for participating in Occupy Wall Street, and their experiences, and offers criticism of media reporting of the movement's history, intentions, and approaches.

From how participants decided to react to violent antagonism against the Occupy movement to the social and political ramifications of not just Occupy but the elements it opposed, these interviews capture participants from all walks of life, from teens to full-time workers, and turns the newspaper reports into a series of personal vignettes about Occupy's deeper meaning.

Any who would better understand the events and the meaning behind news reports must turn to Portraits from the Revolution for a clearer vision of the 'why and how' of the times." -- Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review, November 2015.



The Sleeping Mermaid: "Novelist and literary enthusiast Rob Couteau brings readers part of his love with The Sleeping Mermaid, a book of flowing poetry and thought that asks plenty of questions and offers plenty of answers. The Sleeping Mermaid is a poetry collection well worth considering. 'Muse ... She is constant / like a steady stream; / only my cup / may falter.' -- Midwest Book Review. August 2010. Review of The Sleeping Mermaid, by Willis M. Buhle.

 


Times Herald Record. Feb 14, 2010.
Best Bets for Sunday. A review of my recent painting exhibit.

 


DWX blogspot. Febuary 7, 2010.
Rob Couteau at the Van Buren Gallery,
by poet Dan Wilcox. A review of the poetry collection The Sleeping Mermaid and my recent painting exhibit.



"Intellectual freshness, richness and potency ... Couteau is an impressively creative writer, whom Barney Rosset urged me to review." -- Jim Feast, former assistant editor of the Evergreen Review, who reviewed my novel, Doctor Pluss, and my literary anthology, Collected Couteau, for the Evergreen Review in 2009. Barney Rosset, the former owner of Grove Press and the first American publisher of Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, and Jean Genet, led the legal battle to publish D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Miller's Tropic of Cancer. He continued to publish the Evergreen Review online until his death in 2012.

 

"It's been a very interesting interview. You asked some really interesting questions." - Hubert Selby, author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, commenting on his interview with me in 1999, later featured in Collected Couteau.

 

 

Doctor Pluss: "Amazingly beautiful, haunting prose. It's a great book." - Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, author of The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris (Grove Press), commenting on the novel Doctor Pluss.

 

Interviews




July 2022: ‘A Memorial to Writers Known and Unknown.’
Actor and author Neil Pearson talks about his book 'Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press.'




Dichtung Yammer: August 2021.
'Emanations of Pan': an interview with poet, publisher, and literary critic Ed Foster.


KennedysandKing: September 2019.
The Tragic ‘Years of Lead’: Puppetmasters Author Philip Willan Talks about the Manipulation of Terrorism, the Global War on the Left, and the Links between the JFK and Aldo Moro Assassinations.


June 2018: Audio interview with Picasso's model and muse: Sylvette David talks about her paintings in a conversation with Rob Couteau

 

Rain Taxi Review: Spring 2018.
Remembering the Magic Year: An Interview with Danny Goldberg,

 

January 2018: An Interview with Picasso's Famous Model and Muse, Sylvette David: 'The Woman with the Key.'

 

October 2016. ‘If you are a poet, you help other poets.’ A Conversation with the Poet, Publisher, and Literary Historian Edward Halsey Foster.

 

August 2015. A Conversation with Robert Roper, author of
Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita

 

July 2015. An interview with biographer James Dempsey, author of The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer.

 

February 2015. Paying Attention. Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno Discusses His New Book of Poems, The Mussoorie-Montague Miscellany.


 



September 2014. The Miracle of Unity. Peace Mediator Robert J. De Sena Discusses How He Offers Gang Members a Way Out.

 



Emerging Civil War. October 2011.
An Interview with Robert Roper, author of the groundbreaking Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War.
Listen to an excerpt.

 

December 2010. The Mystery of the Man: Justin Kaplan Talks About America’s Greatest Poet, Walt Whitman. An Interview with the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain; Lincoln Steffens, A Biography; and Walt Whitman, A Life.

 

Rain Taxi Review of Books. December 2010.
Remembering the Deluge: An Interview with Jeffrey H. Jackson, author of the widely acclaimed Paris Under Water and Making Jazz French.
Listen to an excerpt.

 

Rain Taxi Review of Books. Summer 2010.
The Charmed Life: A Conversation with Michael Korda. The former editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, and one of the most influential people in the recent history of publishing, Korda is also the author of the biographies Ike and Ulysses S. Grant. Listen to an excerpt.

 

Rain Taxi Review of Books. June 2008.
Albert Hofmann: An Appreciation. A brief interview with the discoverer of LSD. The last interview ever conducted with Dr. Hofmann, who died two weeks later at the age of 102. Listen to an excerpt.

 

Rain Taxi Review of Books (Online). Dec. 1999.
Defining the Sacred: Author Hubert Selby on Spirituality, The Creative Will, and Love. Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned in the UK in 1967, leading to a landmark trial in England. Listen to an excerpt:

 

The Bloomsbury Review. Mar. 1991.
The Biographer of Paul Bowles & Other Expatriates Talks about Writing the Outsider's Story: An Interview with Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno. Listen to an excerpt.

 


The Paris Voice. Mar. 1991.
Paul Bowles: An Invisible Spectator: A Conversation with Biographer Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno.

 

Quantum: Science Fiction & Fantasy Review. Spring 1991.
An Interview with Ray Bradbury. Listen to an excerpt.

 


The Paris Voice. Nov. 1990.
Ray Bradbury's Romance of Places. An Interview with Ray Bradbury.

 

Poetry



Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, February 2020.
A collection of fourteen prose poems
.



Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, January 2018.
Five poems from various collections
.

 

Mochila Review. Spring 2011.
Cobblestones.

- Nothing but.

 

Out of Our. February 2011.
The Sleeping Mermaid.

- The Sixties.

 

The Rockhurst Review. Spring 2010.
The blue heron.

 

Xanadu. Fall 2009.
Your ears.

 

Blueline. Spring 2009.
Alphabet.

 

Colere. Spring 2009.
Standing with the Fraulein.

 

Passager magazine. Spring 2009.
Heaven.

 

The Taylor Trust. Feb. 2009.
The twenty-ninth bather.

-- All around the world.

 

White Pelican Review. Spring 2007.
The existentialists.

 

The Alembic. Spring 2007.
Allen Ginsberg.

 

North Stone Review. 2001.
In the Marais.

 

Versitude. Fall 1998.
In her white dress.

-- Strawberries.

 

Footwork: The Paterson Literary Review. Spring 1993.
Will you walk with me tonight?

-- Your picture on the wall.

 

Z Miscellaneous. Summer 1990.
The existentialists.

 


Z Miscellaneous. Spring 1990.
This city and I.

 

Z Miscellaneous. Summer 1989.
In Paris.

 

Z Miscellaneous. Sep. 1988.
Edda Marie soon to leave.

-- While you were away.

 

Z Miscellaneous. May 1988.
Beethoveniana Edda Marie.

-- Edda in Argentina.

 

Footwork '88:
A Literary Collection of Contemporary Poetry,
Short Fiction and Art. Spring 1988.
Edda in Argentina.

-- Beethoveniana Edda Marie.

 

The Cutting Edge. 1988.
Without women.

 

New Leaves Review. 1987.
Angels and imbeciles.

 

Heavenbone. 1987.
This morning I dreamt I was Nietzsche in the insane asylum.

 

The Garden State. 1987.
At Jim Morrison's grave in Pere Lachaise.

 

Fiction


Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics." February 2020. The Cantankerous Krishnamurti, a reminisce about the renowned philosopher and author, Jiddu Krishnamurti.


Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. January 2019.
Crawling King Snake.

 

Autonomedia, NY, October 2017: "The American Dream in Reverse."

 

Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, January 2017.
Three prose excerpts from a work in progress.


Psychological Poems: Journal of Outsider Poetry. 2009.
Portrait of a Cat Remedy, an excerpt
from the novel, Doctor Pluss.

 

Rockhurst Review. Spring 2007.
Portrait of a Cat Remedy, an excerpt
from the novel, Doctor Pluss.

 

Hawaii Pacific Review. Fall 2002.
Sublunary Delights, an excerpt
from the novel, Doctor Pluss.

 

Chrysalis. Spring 1990.
A Reader's Journey.

 

Essays & Letters 

November 2021: Garrison: A Journal of History and Deep Politics.
"Politics as (Un)usual: Stanley J. Marks and Coup d’tat!"


KennedysandKing.com. June 2020.
Stanley J. Marks and Murder Most Foul!—A Sequel to “The Kennedy / Dylan Sensation.”



KennedysandKing.com. July 2019.
NATO’s Secret Armies, Operation Gladio, and JFK.

 

Worcester Review. November 2016.
The Anglo-French Connection: A Brief Foray into the Maternal Genealogy of Scofield Thayer
.

 



MarionMorehouse.com. May 2015.
On the Trail of the 'Elusive' Lillian and Marion Morehouse. Unraveling the genealogical mysteries of the world's first supermodel
.

 

Rain Taxi Review of Books (Online). August 2012.
Abandoning Hope to Discover Life: Commemorating the 51st Anniversary of the Grove Press Edition of "Tropic of Cancer," with a Special Tribute to Barney Rosset.

 

Open Road Integrated Media. January 2012.
Hubert Selby Jr: The Counterpoint to the Demon Is Love.

 

Cadillac Cicatrix. Winter 2008.
The Prisoner.

 

Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture. 1988.
Jungian Social Neglect.



Anima: An Experimental Journal. Fall 1986.
The World End: An Eternal Paradigm and Current Crisis.

 

Croton Review. 1986.
Reflections on Paul Klee's 'Lost in Thought.'

 

The Humanist. March/April 1986.
Must World-mindedness Destroy National Identity?

 

West Hills Review: A Walt Whitman Journal. 1985.
A Sort of Visitor in Life.

 

Lapis. 1985.
The Doctor as a Catalyst of Illness: Treatment Induced Psychosis.

 

Book reviews

Evergreen Review. February 2013. Kerouac Ascending: Memorabilia of the Decade of On the Road by Elbert Lenrow.

 

Tygers of Wrath, 2006. Wounded Healer. A review of Claire Dunne's CARL JUNG: WOUNDED HEALER OF THE SOUL and Jane Cabot Reid's JUNG, MY MOTHER AND I. THE ANALYTIC DIARIES OF CATHERINE RUSH CABOT.

 

Lift Magazine. 1993.
THE CONTINUAL PILGRIMAGE: AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS, 1944-1960, by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno.

 

The Paris Voice. April 1993.
THE CONTINUAL PILGRIMAGE: AMERICAN WRITERS IN PARIS, 1944-1960, by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno.

 

The Bloomsbury Review: A Book Magazine. Apr./May 1991.
First Fictions: New First Novels & Short Story Collections: TEA IN THE HAREM, by Mehdi Charef, Translated by Ed Emery.

-- FROM ROCKAWAY, by Jill Eisenstadt.

-- TONI, by Fiorella de Luca Calce.

 

The Paris Voice. Feb. 1991.
GUILTY OF EVERYTHING:
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HERBERT HUNCKE.

 

The European: Europe's First National Newspaper. Jan. 4-6, 1991.
Anatomy of Hatred: UNE PETITE VILLE EN FRANCE, by Francoise Gaspard.


The European: Europe's First National Newspaper. Nov. 9-11, 1990.
Signs of the times: ROLAND BARTHES, by L.J. Calvet.



The European: Europe's First National Newspaper. Oct. 12-14, 1990.
Love and Confession: LE MIROIR AUX TIROIRS, by Jacques Laurent.

 

The European: Europe's First National Newspaper. Sep. 7-9, 1990.
Abandoned Love: SUR UN AIR DE FETE, by Francois-Marie Banier.

 

The Bloomsbury Review: A Book Magazine. May/Jun. 1990
REDISCOVERIES II: Essays on Forgotten Works of Fiction, Ed. by David Madden & Peggy Back.

-- THE DEMON and THE ROOM, by Hubert Selby.

 

The Bloomsbury Review: A Book Magazine. Mar./Apr. 1990.
-- THE FAR SIDE OF MADNESS, by John Weir Perry.

-- EROS AND PATHOS, by Aldo Carentenuto.

-- THE HOMELESS MENTALLY ILL, ed. H. Richard Lamb, M.D.

-- SCHIZOPHRENIA: Treatment, Process and Outcome, by Thomas H. Mc Glashan, M.D. and Christopher J. Keats, M.D.

 

The Bloomsbury Review: A Book Magazine. Sep./Oct. 1989.
ALCHEMY IN A MODERN WOMAN: A Study in the Contrasexual Archetype, by Robert Grinnell.

 

The Bloomsbury Review: A Book Magazine. March/April 1989.
Encountering Mortality: FULL MEASURE: Modern Short Stories on Aging, ed. Dorothy Sennett.

-- Violence Against the Self: THE BETRAYAL OF THE SELF: The Fear of Autonomy in Men and Women, by Arno Gruen.

 

Arete: Forum For Thought. March/April 1989.
LIBRA, by Don Delillo.

 

Arete: Forum For Thought. Dec. 1988.
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

 

Arete: Forum For Thought. Aug./Sep. 1988.
THE MUSTACHE, by Emmanuel Carrere.

-- A LITERATE PASSION: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953.

 

Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. Fall 1987.
MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL POLICY, ed. Phil Brown.

 

The Bloomsbury Review: A Book Magazine. March 1986.
Sense, Sensibility & the Solitary Child: THE ULTIMATE STRANGER: The Autistic Child, by Carl H. Delacato, MD.

 

The Confluent Education Journal. Fall 1985.
THE BROKEN BRAIN: The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry by Nancy C. Andreason, MD.

 

Nice. Spring 1981.
REFLECTIONS, by Henry Miller, Ed. by Twinka Thiebaud.

 

Journalism


Tygers of Wrath.
Portraits from the Revolution, Part One: In-depth Interviews with the Protestors from Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Square, Conducted on 30 September 2011.

 

Evergreen Review. February 2012.
To Crush a Butterfly on the Wheel of a Tank: Why Americans Must Take to the Streets. A Personal Essay on Marching with the Occupy Wall Street Demonstrators on 5 October 2011. Portraits of the Revolution from Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Square, Part Two.

 

Tygers of Wrath. A Pratt University Art Student, a Volunteer Librarian, a "Grandmother for Peace," a Teamster, and an Ironworker. What Do They All Have in Common? Portraits of the Revolution from Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Square, Part Three.

 

Tygers of Wrath. October 2011. An Interview with William Scott, Author of Troublemakers: Power, Representation, and the Fiction of the Mass Worker. Portraits of the Revolution from Occupy Wall Street, Liberty Square, Part Four.

 

The Paris Voice. Dec. 1990/Jan. 1991.
Allen Ginsberg's 'Family' Album Exhibited.

 


The Paris Voice. Oct. 1990.
Benefit Readings at Shakespeare & Co.

 

Venice Magazine. Sep. 1990.
Tumbleweed Hotel Ablaze:
The Venerable Shakespeare and Company
Suffers Irreparable Damage.

 

Interviews with Rob Couteau

Black Op Radio

Black Op Radio.
13 April 2023.
Len Osanic interviews Rob Couteau about his publication of Stanley Marks' three-act play about the JFK assassination, which was first copyrighted in 1968 but never before released in book form. With an Introduction by Rob Couteau and an Afterword by James DiEugenio.




WAMC Radio, The Best of Our Knowledge. 18 April 2022.
Bob Barrett
interviews Rob Couteau about his new book, "A Blind Man Crazy for Color," a biography of the art collector Léon Angély.



Black Op Radio

Black Op Radio. 15 December 2020.
Len Osanic interviews Rob Couteau about his reissuing of the book MURDER MOST FOUL! THE CONSPIRACY THAT MURDERED PRESIDENT KENNEDY by Stanley J Marks. Stanley's daughter Bobbie Marks, who assisted Couteau in his research, was also on the program.


Black Op Radio

Black Op Radio. 30 July 2020.
Len Osanic interviews Rob Couteau about his essay "Stanley J. Marks and Murder Most Foul" published at KennedysandKIng.com.




Black Op Radio. 18 July 2019.
Len Osanic interviews Rob Couteau about his essay "NATO’s Secret Armies, Operation Gladio, and JFK" published at KennedysandKIng.com.

 

Monocle24. June 2012,
Chloe Potter Interviews Rob Couteau on the death of Ray Bradbury. A radio interview, first broadcast on 6 June 2012 by the international media conglomerate, Monocle 24, based in London.

 

HV Biz. March 1, 2010.
Off the Palette: Rob Couteau.

 

Netsurf. Le magazine Internet. May 1998.
Portrait Robert Couteau. Un americain a Paris.

 

Awards

"Must World-mindedness Destroy National Identity?" Winner of the 1985 North American Essay Award; annual competition sponsored by the American Humanist Association, open to writers living in North America. Essay published in The Humanist magazine.

 

Collected works


 Intimate Souvenirs


LEON-ANGELY-BIOGRAPHY
A Blind Man Crazy for Color



More Collected Couteau





Collected Couteau

 

Doctor Pluss

 

poems from the late twentieth century
(Far Rockaway, NY: Ipana Press, 1978.)

 

Cited in books & periodicals
by other authors




Par instants, le sol penche bizarrement, by Nicolas Richard (Robert Laffont, 2021).


KennedysandKing.com, April 2019.
The Mysterious Life and Death of James W. McCord, by James DiEugenio.

 

The New York Times, April 16, 2015.
Reclaiming the Age-Old Art of Getting Lost, by Stephanie Rosenbloom.

 

Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac Correspondance (1944-1969).
Trad. de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Nicolas Richard.
Édition et introduction de Bill Morgan et David Stanford.
Sélection française de Josée Kamoun
(Collection Du monde entier, Gallimard, 2014.)

 

Transpersonal Astrology: Explorations at the Frontier,
by Armand Diaz, Eric Meyers and Andrew Smith
(Integral Transformation, 2013).

 


The Chicago Reader, June 7, 2012.
The Realness of Ray Bradbury, by Drew Hunt.

 


Archdaily, June 6, 2012.
The “Fahrenheit 451" Author Ray Bradbury Dies at 91, by Vanessa Quirk.

 


Review Review, Spring 2012.
Prose and Poetry With Social Conscience.
Review of Evergreen Review
, by Brenna Dixon.

 


Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature:
Writing Apartheid
(The Future of Minority Studies),
by Tyrone R. Simpson II.
Palgrave Macmillan (January 31, 2012)

 


SF: The Sci-Fi Literature Genius Guide
(Imagine Publishing, 2011),



Senses of Cinema, Issue 57, summer 2010.
Fahrenheit 451: A Brave New World for the New Man,
by Pedro Blas Gonzalez.

 

Contemporary Irish Music for Classic Guitar Solo,
by John Feeley (Mel Bay Publications, 2009).

 


Revolution 1821 Economics: Greek Modern Economic History,
by Gregory Zorzos (CreateSpace, 2009).

 


The Age of the Female: A Thousand Years of Yin,
by Richard Andrew King (Richard King Publications, 2008).

 


California Literary Review, March 2007.
Fahrenheit 451: Avatar of the New Man
, by Pedro Blas Gonzalez.

 


Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera: A Reader's Guide,
by Thomas Fahy (London: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2007).

 



Qualitative Data Analysis: An Introduction,
by Carol Grbich (London: Sage Publications, 2007).

 


Popular Contemporary Writers, by Michael D Sharp
(Marshall Cavendish, 2006).

 


The No Plot? No Problem! Novel-Writing Kit,
by Chris Baty (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2006).

 


Ray Bradbury: Uncensored! The Unauthorized Biography,
by Gene Beley (iUniverse, 2006).

 


100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Authors:
Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies,

by Bernard A. Drew (Libraries Unlimited, 2005).

 


The Astrology of Film: The Interface of Movies,
Myth, and Archetype,
by Jeffrey Kishner
(iUniverse, 2004).

 


El Pais Digital, April 16, 2004 (Montevideo, Uruguay).
NUEVOS CUENTOS DE RAY BRADBURY. La vuelta completa,
by Elvio E. Gandolfo.

 


Poughkeepsie Journal. March 2, 2004.
West might face charges for marrying gays. Authorities
explore legal options, by Gabriel J. Wasserman.

 

Dal Segno al fine: románové podoby Erosa, by Peter Michalovic
(Petrus, 2003).

 


The Writer's Handbook, 2004, by Elfreida Abbe
(Waukesha, WI: Writer, Inc., 2003).

 


National Identities, vol. 5, no. 3, 2003.
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism:
Irreconcilable Differences or Possible Bedfellows?
by Brett Bowden.

 


PsyArt. An online journal for the psychological study of the arts. 2002.
   The Mandala Experience : Visions of the Center in Schizophrenic and Fictional Accounts of Disintegration, by Leslie Trueman.

 


The Response to Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1994:
A Bibliography of Secondary Sources,
by Bill Morgan
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996).

 

Forgotten Millions, by David Cohen (Boulder, CO: Paladin, 1988).

 

 

In Library Collections


The Special Collections of the following libraries
have noncirculating copies of
poems from the late twentieth century
:

New York University;
Yale University Library;
Colby College;
Michigan State University Libraries;
Northwestern University;
UCLA Library

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