Intimate Souvenirs - Couverture souple

Couteau, Rob

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1736004956 ISBN 13 : 9781736004951

Editeur : Dominantstar, 2023

Synopsis

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. Includes a frontispiece illustration by Picasso's model and muse, Sylvette David, an Introduction by Robert Roper, and an Afterword by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

ROB COUTEAU is a writer and visual artist from Brooklyn whose publications have been praised in Midwest Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Evergreen Review, Witty Partition, and the New Art Examiner. His work is cited 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. His inter¬views include conversa¬tions with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Justin Kaplan, Last Exit to Brooklyn novelist 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 Terrorism in Italy. In 1985 he won the North American Essay Award, sponsored by the American Humanist Association. He has appeared several times as a guest on Len Osanic's Black Op Radio and on Monocle 24 in Europe.

A widely published novelist and former professor at John Hopkins University, ROBERT ROPER is the author of Nabokov in America: On the Road to Lolita. The recipient of several awards for works of fiction and nonfiction, his Fatal Mountaineer, a biography of the climber-philosopher Willi Unsoeld, won the 2002 Boardman Tasker Prize; and his Now the Drum of War: Walt Whitman and His Brothers in the Civil War was an Editor's Choice pick in the New York Times Book Review. Roper's journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Outside, and numerous other publications.

A former writer-in-residence at MIT and a widely published poet, CHRISTOPHER SAWYER-LAUCANNO is the author of E. E. Cummings, The Continual Pilgrimage: American Writers in Paris, 1944-1960, and An Invisible Spectator, A Biography of Paul Bowles. His translations include Barbarous Nights: Legends and the Little Theater by Federico Garcia Lorca, and Concerning the Angels by Rafael Alberti (both published by City Lights).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dominantstar
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1736004956
• ISBN 13: 9781736004951
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 510
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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