Rob CouteauROB COUTEAU is a Brooklyn-born author and visual artist. His publications have been praised in Evergreen Review, Publishers Weekly, New Art Examiner, Midwest Book Review, and Witty Partition. In 1985 he won the North American Essay Award, sponsored b the American Humanist Association. His work has been cited in books such as Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Litera¬ture by Tyrone Simp¬son, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'Love in the Time of Cholera' by Thomas Fahy, Con¬ver¬sations with Ray Bradbury edited by Steven Aggelis, and David Cohen's Forgotten Millions, a book about the home¬less. His interviews include conversations with Pu¬litz¬er Prize¬-winning author Justin Kaplan, Last Exit to Brooklyn nov¬elist Hubert Selby, Simon & Schuster editor Michael Korda, LSD discoverer Albert Hofmann, Picasso's model and muse Sylvette David, sci-fi author Ray Bradbury, film star and bibliophile Neil Pearson, and historian Philip Willan, author Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Ter¬rorism in Italy. Couteau has appeared as a guest on Bob Barrett's The Best of Our Knowledge (WAMC), Len Osanic's Black Op Radio, and on Monocle 24 in Europe. Since 2020 he has devoted himself to republishing annotated texts of important but forgotten authors such as Stanley Marks, Charles Beadle, and Francis Carco. In 2023 he published Intimate Souvenirs, a memoir featuring an Introduction by 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. Read More Read Less