Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet―from LSD to shopping at the A&amp;P, from birthing Max to shooting Pink Flamingos
Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet―from LSD to shopping at the A&amp;P, from birthing Max to shooting Pink Flamingos. The echoes of her passionate commitments will ring in your ears. It is a tragedy to have lost her. Fortunately, along with the memories, she left us this marvellous testament to her intrepid zest for living.

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black (Native Agents)

Mueller, Cookie

Humor & Entertainment

Semiotext[e]

Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

Inland Book Co

Garden of Ashes (Hanuman, Book No. 34)

Hanuman Books

The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished.\nLegendary as an underground actress, female adventurer, and East Village raconteur, Cookie Mueller's first calling was to the written word: "I started writing when I was six and have never stopped completely," she once confessed. Muellerís 1990 Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, the first volume of the Semiotext(e) Native Agents series, was the largest collection of stories she compiled during her life. But it presented only a slice of Mueller's prolific work as a writer. This new, landmark volume collects all of Mueller's stories: from the original contents of Clear Water, to additional stories discovered by Amy Scholder for the posthumous anthology Ask Dr. Mueller, to selections from Mueller's art and advice columns for Details and the East Village Eye, to still "new" stories collected and published here for the first time. Olivia Laing's new introduction situates Mueller's writing within the context of her life—and our times.\nThanks to recent documentaries like Mallory Curley's A Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia and Chloé Griffin's oral biography Edgewise, Mueller's life and work have been discovered by a new generation of readers. Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories returns essential source material to these readers, the archive of Mueller's writing itself. Mueller's many mise en scènes—the Baltimore of John Waters, post-Stonewall Provincetown, avant-garde Italy, 1980s New York, an America enduring Reagan and AIDS—patches together a singular personal history and a primer for others. As Laing writes in her introduction, Collected Stories amounts to "a how-to manual for a life ricocheting joyously off the rails . . . a live corrective to conformity, conservatism, and cruelty."

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, new edition: Collected Stories (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

Cookie Mueller was a fiction writer, cult movie star and art critic in New York until her death from AIDS in 1989. Included here are highlights from her art columns for "Detail" magazine, her agony aunt column, and her strongest pieces of fiction.

Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller (High Risk Books)

Arts & Photography

Serpent's Tail

Writer and John-Waters-movie-star Cookie Mueller and artist/poet Vittorio Scarpati, husband and wife, team up for a final collaboration. Scarpati's insightful, witty, poignant drawings were made while in the hospital in his last months. Mueller writes: "Seen chronologically this is a journey of extreme pain made bearable by his sublime imagination. It's the story of a trip along the paths of Vittorio's fantasies and for a man who hasn't felt the warmth of sunlight or the sweet breezes of fresh air for four months, there's a lot to create in the inward eye. From limitations come finally an emancipation...toward a pinnacle of inspiration." Within months of this publication in 1990, both were taken by the AIDS epidemic.

Putti's Pudding: Cookie Mueller and Vittorio Scarpati (Art Random ; 11) (English and Japanese Edition)

Deak, Edit

Kyoto Shoin

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