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December
2024: In 1915, Charles Beadle authored a banned
literary novel, A Passionate Pilgrimage:
one of ten books blacklisted between 1914 and
1916 by Britain’s Circulating Libraries
Association. Drawing from personal
experience, the author affords us a glimpse into
the underbelly of Victorian society, breaking
through the “mind-forg’d manacles” of what was
then considered as a “tasteful” tale and
exploring points of view that only an
anti-Victorian story might dare encompass. With
the publication of Dark Refuge (1938),
he produced an even more provocative chronicle –
one that was also banned in the Anglo-Saxon
world due to its brazen depiction of the
Parisian demimonde. Both these censored books
portray the shifting mores of the times and
encompass a major trajectory in the author’s
life. Back in print for the first time since
1915, this newly revised edition features over
200 annotations, my in-depth Introduction and
Afterward, a Postscript by John Locke, and a
transcript of Beadle's previously unpublished
letters to his niece Isabel. It also includes a
reproduction of a newly uncovered portrait of
Beadle by the artist Amedeo Modigliani. Order
info here.
December
2024: Thanks to Cable Street journal for
publishing "A
Family Tree," a chronicle about growing up
in Gravesend, Brooklyn, in the 1960s.
November 2024: Thanks to Daniel Nanavati, editor
of the NEW
ART EXAMINER, for inviting me to participate
in this very exclusive forum in the November -
December issue: Speakeasy:
Paris Memories. My piece on Modigliani is
featured along with essays by Maria Balshaw,
Director of the Tate; Sophie Kazin, professor at
Falmouth Art School; and sculptor Elizabeth Ashe.
Here I pay homage to one of Modigliani's most
beautiful and profound paintings, "Blonde Nude
with the Dropped Chemise." (For a Greek
translation of this essay, go here.)
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. Order
info here.
May 2024: Thanks to Dr. David Mantik and
Jerome Corsi for citing my
research on the JFK assassination in their
new book, The Assassination of President John
F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
 July 2022: Thanks to JFK scholar James
DiEugenio for citing my
work on the assassination in his new book,
"JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass," which
contains the transcripts and interviews that form the
basis of Oliver Stone's documentary, "JFK
Revisited."
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."
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..."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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."
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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.
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).
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.
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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Times
Herald Record. Feb 14, 2010.
Best Bets for Sunday. A review of 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.
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Interviews
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.
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
New Art Examiner. November 2024.
"Carco,
Modigliani, and the Blonde Nude with the
Dropped Chemise."
KennedysandKing.com. April 2023.
"The
Ripple Effect: An Introduction to Stanley J.
Marks’ Three-act Play about the JFK
Assassination."
Garrison: A
Journal of History and Deep Politics. November
2021.
"Politics as (Un)usual: Stanley J. Marks
and Coup d’Etat!"
KennedysandKing.com. December 2020.
"The
Stanley Marks Revival: The Prophecies
of Murder Most Foul! and Two Days of
Infamy."
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. 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. 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. 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
A
Blind Man Crazy for Color
Selected Poems
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
The
Assassination of President John
F. Kennedy: The Final Analysis,
by Dr. David Mantik and Jerome
Corsi (Post Hill Press, 2024).
JFK
Revisited: Through the Looking
Glass, by James DiEugenio
(Skyhorse Publishing, 2022).
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.
Review Review, Spring 2012.
Prose
and Poetry With Social Conscience.
Review of Evergreen Review, by
Brenna Dixon.
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).
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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