'Collected Couteau,' a literary anthology, features the author's early essays and interviews. It contains the only complete, unabridged versions of interviews with Ray Bradbury and 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'-author Hubert Selby, as well as an interview with the biographer of Paul Bowles, Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno. The book also includes an essay on Walt Whitman and book 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: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller'; and a review of Allen Ginsberg's 1990 photography show in Paris.

Collected Couteau. Essays and Interviews (Third, Revised Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Couteau, Rob

Essays & Correspondence

Dominantstar

This volume features two books in one: Stanley J. Marks' Murder Most Foul! and Rob Couteau's biographical essay that surveys the life and work of this author of a forgotten classic. It also includes an in-depth examination of Murder Most Foul! that shows how and why it was so far ahead of its time and that places it in the context of other researchers, past and present. Couteau shares his detective work in unraveling the clues of Marks' Zelig-like biography, which touches on so many pivotal moments in 20th-century cultural and political history. This groundbreaking biography was also produced with the help of Marks' only child, Roberta Marks. JFK scholar Jim DiEugenio calls Couteau's work "important," "frist-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: Destiny Betrayed. With the release of Bob Dylan's ballad, "Murder Most Foul," which may have been influenced by Marks' book, interest in the author has been reawakened, largely as a result ofCouteau's first article on Marks. More than fifty years after the publication of Murder Most Foul! the text still resonates with a prescient vision. A fearless author who was blacklisted by HUAC, Marks was one of the firstAmerican researchers to draw a direct connection between the murders of JFK, MLK, and RFK. In 1973, the JFK Library contacted Marks with a request to purchase Murder Most Foul! In 1979, the House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on Assassinations cited five of Marks' assassination-related titles (including MMF!) in its report. Marks published nineteen books on politics and religion, one of which received accolades from Arnold Toynbee and Herbert Marcuse. His first book, a bestseller titled The Bear that Walks Like a Man, was reviewed in over thirty mainstream newspapers.

Murder Most Foul! The Conspiracy That Murdered President Kennedy: Edited with an Introduction by Rob Couteau

Marks, Stanley J.

Biographies & Memoirs

A literary memoir about a writer's coming of age in Gravesend, Brooklyn in the 1960s and 1970s; working with the homeless mentally ill in the Lower East Side in the 1980s; and expatriation to Paris in the 1990s."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

Intimate Souvenirs

History & Criticism

A selection of 101 poems by Rob Couteau. Over 40 of these poems were published in 15 different print and online journals between 1985 and 2020. "The new work might be quite dark, a recognition of the loss that time inevitably entails, yet he also pursued moments of high beauty. There is a deep tenderness in these words, mingled with the sadness of age. If one goes back to the early poems one can find the tenderness there, too, as it is in his work as a case manager for the poor and homeless. There is much to admire in Couteau's oeuvre, but this tenderness stands out among so many things that make reading his work clearly an important experience." - Poet, critic, and literary historian Ed Foster, founder of Talisman House, Publishers, and Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. from his Introduction to Selected Poems."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." Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review.

Selected Poems

A never-before-published three-act play about the JFK assassination, originally copyrighted in 1968 by Stanley J. Marks, author of the groundbreaking "Murder Most Foul! The Conspiracy That Murdered President Kennedy" (1967).

A Murder Most Foul! A Three-act Play about the JFK Assassination

DiEugenio, James

Dramas & Plays