Published in 1996
320 pages
“Cookie Mueller was a writer, a mother, an outlaw, an actress, a fashion designer, a go-go dancer, a witch-doctor, an art-hag, and above all, a goddess. Boy, do I miss that girl.” – John Waters
What is this book about?
Having come of age in the late Sixties, Cookie Mueller did drugs, cruised the New York City art scene, and bummed rides. This compilation of Mueller’s semiautobiographical essays, columns, and fiction begins with nine previously unpublished pieces and includes stories from an earlier collection, Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black (Autonomedia, 1990). There are also excerpts from a humorous, unorthodox medical-advice column that Mueller fabricated for readers of the East Village Eye and reprints of an anecdotal column she wrote as an art commentator for Details magazine. Her unabashed reflections reveal her to be a talented social critic made wise by her subcultural life. Her stories are amusing, unpretentious, and sometimes lewd, providing insight into a risky, bygone lifestyle that the more adventurous baby-boomers will recall with nostalgia.
