Rob Couteau

Rob Couteau's books, including the novel Doctor Pluss, the anthology More Collected Couteau, and the poetry collection The Sleeping Mermaid have been praised in the Midwest Book Review, Publishers Weekly, and Evergreen Review. Couteau’s work as a literary critic, interviewer, and social commentator has been featured in books such as Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Tyrone Simpson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ by Thomas Fahy, Conversations with Ray Bradbury edited by Steven Aggelis, and David Cohen's Forgotten Millions, a book about the homeless mentally ill. His published interviews include conversations with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Justin Kaplan, Last Exit to Brooklyn novelist Hubert Selby, Simon & Schuster editor Michael Korda, LSD discoverer Dr. Albert Hofmann, Picasso's model and muse Sylvette David, Nabokov biographer Robert Roper, music producer Danny Goldberg, poet and publisher Ed Foster, sci-fi author Ray Bradbury, and historian Philip Willan, author Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy. In his early years as a writer Couteau won the North American Essay Award, a competition sponsored by the American Humanist Association. His essays and interviews on the Sixties assassinations have been featured at the Kennedys and King website, and he has appeared several times as a guest on Len Osanic's Black Op Radio and on Monocle 24 in Europe.