INTERVIEWS:




Rob Couteau interviews Hubert Selby Jr, author of Last Exit to Brooklyn.

Selby on Spirituality, The Creative Will, and Love.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erotic Literature

Clean Sheets 
Libido Magazine  
Yellow Silk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"The kind of painter who just puts down what he sees is stupid."
- Marcel Duchamp

 

 

Buying Books

abe.com
Alibris: used books
Amazon
Barnes & Nobles
Bookfinder
ebay

 

 

Literary Interviews

Thomas Bernhard
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Blaise Cendrars
Henry Miller-MQR
Henry Miller-PR
Barney Rosset

 

 

Updated:

12 January 2013


Since 1998

 

 

"Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation ... the other eight are unimportant."
- Henry Miller

 

 

 

 

"The artist is the one who survives the greatest number of obstacles."
- Picasso

 

 

"Hear the voice of the bard!"
- William
Blake

 

 

"Whereas the Buddhist puts stress - primary stress - upon absoptive, final loss of individuality, I put the contrary emphasis upon, if so to say it, an extreme individuality, identity - that the individual is the crown, master, god of all."
- Walt Whitman

 

Museuems

ABU DHABI
Khalili Family Trust

AUSTRIA
Albertina

CANADA
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

CHINA
Palace Museum

Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art

ENGLAND
Wallace Collection

SPAIN
Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

SWITZERLAND Kunsthaus Zürich

USA
Art Institute of Chicago

Burchfield Penney

Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York

 

 

 

"Love, sex, friendship, and marriage: the four things that have absolutely no connection with each other." - Marcello Mastroianni

 

 

 

"What does it mean, Mr Fellini?" (Interviewer). "What do you mean, mean?" - Federico Fellini.

 

 

"Well, it's like they always say: Never send a duck for the job of a rabbit." - Bugs Bunny

 

 

"Cinema is a form of painting." - Federico Fellini.

 

 

"Painting is a form of writing." - Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

 

 

"When a man watches over a sleeping woman, he tries to understand. When a woman watches over a sleeping man, she thinks about eating him in a delicious sauce."
-
Picasso
.

 

 

"Women: glad to hear their footsteps coming, glad to hear their footsteps going. So most of the time I'm glad." - Bukowski

 

 

"Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife." - Hugh Hefner

 

 

"Art is stronger than life." - Picasso

 

 

"The first draft is always shit." - Ernest Hemingway

 

 

Art Publications

The Art Guide
Art News
L.A. Art House

 

 

'A man who states he understands his life should be confined to bedlam.' - Edward Dahlberg

 

 

'The first duty of genius is to protect itself so it can go on working.' - John Richardson, reflecting on Picasso

 

 

'Death hovers over my pencil.' - Jack Kerouac


Rob Couteau: Publications

Rob Couteau, summer 2007

What's new?

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

 



Rain Taxi Review of Books. 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.

 

Chloe Potter Interviews Rob Couteau on the death of Ray Bradbury. First broadcast on 6 June 2012 by the international media conglomerate, Monocle 24, based in London. (Use Windows Media Player for best results; will not play on Quicktime)

 

Featured in the Evergreen Review:
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.


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.



Recent paintings: Eighty-eight Variations on Titian's 'Venus of Urbino, a series of paintings inspired by the Renaissance master.


Visit our Guest Authors section (below). The first two installments feature work by the renowned biographers Robert Roper and Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno.

 

Guest authors

Dr. Pat, by Robert Roper. April 2012.
A work of fiction by the biographer of Walt Whitman.

 

Letter from Istanbul, by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno. February 2012.
Chris reports on the witches' brew of politics and religion that is currently simmering in Turkey, with a special focus on the incarceration of journalists and authors.


 

Accolades & reviews of Rob Couteau's work



"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 the painting exhibit 'A Year with Picasso.'

 


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 the painting exhibit 'A Year with Picasso.'

 

"Intellectual freshness, richness and potency ... an impressively creative writer, whom Barney Rosset urged me to review." -- Jim Feast, author of Neo Phobe, from his Evergreen Review essay on Doctor Pluss and Collected Couteau. 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 featured in Collected Couteau.

 

"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.

 

Collected works

The Sleeping Mermaid
(New York: Dominantstar, 2010).

 

Letters from Paris
(New York: Dominantstar, 2010).

 

The Paris Journals
(New York: Dominantstar, 2010).

 

Collected Couteau
(New York: Open Virgin Press, 2006).

 

Doctor Pluss
(New York: Open Virgin Press, 2006).

 

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



Published in other book collections:

Conversations with Ray Bradbury,
ed. Steven Aggelis.
(Jackson, MS: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2005.)
The Romance of Places:
An Interview with Ray Bradbury.



Nelson Thornes Framework
English Resource Book 2
,
ed. Geoff Reilly and Wendy Wren.
(Cheltenham, U.K.: Nelson Thornes Ltd., 2003.)

An Interview with Ray Bradbury.

 

 

Published in journals & newspapers

Epistolary

 

Cadillac Cicatrix. Winter 2008.
The Prisoner.

 

 

Interviews

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.

 

Tygers of Wrath. 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

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

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

Rain Taxi Review of Books. Summer 2012. Rain Taxi Review (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

 

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./Jan. 1990.
Allen Ginsberg's 'Family' Album Exhibited.

 

The Paris Voice. Oct. 1990.
Benefit Readings at Sha
kespeare & Co.

 

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

 

 

Interviews with Rob Couteau


Chloe Potter Interviews Rob Couteau on the death of Ray Bradbury. First broadcast on 6 June 2012 by the international media conglomerate, Monocle 24, based in London. (Use Windows Media Player for best results; will not play on Quicktime)

 

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

 

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

 

 

Awards

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, Mar/Apr 1986: Must World-mindedness Destroy National Identity?

 

 

Cited in books & periodicals
by other authors

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.

 

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

 

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).

 

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

 

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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