Intimate Souvenirs

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

• | Author: Rob Couteau
• | Publisher: Dominantstar
• | Publication Date: Apr 12, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 510 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1736004956
• | ISBN-13: 9781736004951