Collected Couteau. Poems, Letters, Essays, Interviews and Reviews by Rob Couteau - Softcover

Collected Couteau features an anthology the author's writings and publications. It contains the only complete, unabridged versions of interviews with Ray Bradbury and Last Exit to Brooklyn author Hubert Selby. The 197-page trade-sized paperback also features an unabridged interview with Paul Bowles's biographer, Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, in which the latter discusses Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and the Beats. Also included are two essays on Walt Whitman, an essay on Paul Klee's 'Lost in Thought,' and numerous book reviews, including reviews of Tea in the Harem, by Mehdi Charef; The Demon and The Room, by Hubert Selby; Libra, by Don DeLillo; Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; The Mustache, by Emmanuel Carrère; A Literate Passion: The Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller. The book also contains a selection of the author's poems and a review of Allen Ginsberg's 1990 photography show in Paris.

Critical acclaim for Rob Couteau's novel, Doctor Pluss, and his anthology, Collected Couteau: 'Amazingly beautiful, haunting prose. It's a great book.' - Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno, author of E.E. Cummings; The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960; and An Invisible Spectator: A Biography of Paul Bowles.

'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 (December 2009).