More Collected Couteau: Essays and Interviews

Couteau, Rob

ISBN 10: 0996688811 / ISBN 13: 9780996688819

Published by Dominantstar, NY, 2020

About this Item

First Printing, stated First Edition, About Fine/no dj, thick octavo, 373pp., white glossy trade softcover, pictorial front cover, binding tight, text unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: More Collected Couteau: Essays and Interviews
• Publisher: Dominantstar, NY
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0996688811
• ISBN 13: 9780996688819
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Literary essays on Marion Morehouse, Hubert Selby, Henry Miller, and Jack Kerouac; interviews with Albert Hofmann (about LSD), Michael Korda (about T.E. Lawrence and Ulysses S. Grant), Jeffrey Jackson (about the Paris flood of 1910), Robert Roper (about Walt Whitman and Nabokov's Lolita, Justin Kaplan (about Mark Twain and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass), Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno (about E.E. Cummings), James Dempsey (about Scofield Thayer).

About the Authors

Positive reviews of Rob Couteau's books have appeared in the Midwest Book Review, Publishers Weekly Select, and Barney Rosset's Evergreen Review. In 1985 he won the North American Essay Award, a competition sponsored by the American Humanist Association. His work as a critic, interviewer, and social commentator has been featured in books such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'Love in the Time of Cholera' by Thomas Fahy, Conversations with Ray Bradbury edited by Steven Aggelis, Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Tyrone R. Simpson, and David Cohen's Forgotten Millions, a book about the homeless mentally ill. Over one-hundred selections of his poetry and prose have appeared in over forty-five periodicals. Couteau's interviews include conversations with Ray Bradbury, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Justin Kaplan, Last Exit to Brooklyn author Hubert Selby, Simon & Schuster editor Michael Korda, LSD discoverer Dr. Albert Hofmann, Picasso's model and muse Sylvette David, Nabokov biographer Robert Roper, social activist and music producer Danny Goldberg, poet and publisher Ed Foster, and Puppetmasters author Philip Willan.

James Dempsey is a novelist, biographer and an award-winning journalist. A former instructor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he is the author of The Tortured Life of Scofield Thayer, The Court Poetry of Chaucer, Zakary's Zombies, and Murphy's American Dream. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Gail.