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).

In the early years of the twentieth century, a retired legal clerk in Montmartre named Leon Angely collected Picassos, Modiglianis, and Utrillos before any of these artists were well known. And he purchased many of these creations after his failing vision left him almost completely blind. Legend has it that Léon was assisted by a young girl who served as his "eyes," and based on her description of the work he would make his selections. This homage to the 'blind man who was crazy for color'...

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 ...

Critical acclaim for Doctor Pluss:"Doctor Pluss is exceptionally well developed and emotionally compelling, connecting metaphorical description with experiences that often challenge the traditional roles of doctor and patient, linking them in unexpected ways … Couteau is not afraid to push the literary boundaries of convention in pursuit of a different form of descriptive truth, bringing readers along in a rollicking ride through schizophrenic experience that ulti...