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Walking through clear water in a pool painted black : collected stories / Cookie Mueller ; introduction by Olivia Laing ; edited by Hedi El Khoti, Chris Kraus, and Amy Scholder.

by Mueller, Cookie.

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Semiotext(e), 2022.

American wit and humor.

9781635901665 (trade pbk.)

430 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / by Olivia Laing -- Part One : Baltimore, 1964-1969. Two people : Baltimore, 1964 -- Alien : 1965 -- No credit, cash only : Baltimore, 1967 -- Haight-Ashbury : San Francisco, 1967 -- Waiting for the New Age -- The pig farm : Baltimore & York, Pennsylvania, 1969 -- Breaking into show biz -- John Waters and the blessed profession : 1969 -- Route 95 South : Baltimore to Orlando, 1969 -- Abduction & rape : Highway 31, Elkton, Maryland, 1969 -- Part Two : Provincetown, 1969-1976. Female trouble -- Divine -- Provincetown : 1970 -- Sailing -- The birth of Max Mueller : September 25, 1971 -- 'Pink Flamingos' -- British Columbia : 1972 -- Tattooed friends -- Jamaica : 1975 -- The Stone Age : Sicily, 1976 -- Part Three : New York, 1978-1989. Go-going : New York & New Jersey, 1978-79 -- Careening around in career vehicles -- Sam's party : Lower East Side, NYC, 1979 -- Dogs I have known -- The Berlin Film Festival : 1981 -- Edgar Allan Poe on ice : 1982 -- Another boring day -- Narcotics -- The stone of New Orleans : 1983 -- Out of the bottle and into a Danish remedy -- The Italian remedy : 1983 -- Edith Massey : A star -- Fleeting happiness -- Manhattan : The first nine years, the dog years -- Part 4 : Fables, 1981-1988. The third twin -- Brenda losing -- The mystery of tap water -- I hear America sinking or a suburban girl who is naive and stupid finds her reward -- The truth about the end of the world -- Which came first -- The one percent -- The simplest thing -- Fan mail, frank letters, and crank calls -- Part 5 : Columns, 1982-1989. Cookie Mueller -- Ask Dr. Mueller ('East Village Eye') -- Art and About ('Details Magazine') -- Ronnie Roach ('High Times') -- Part 6 : Coda, 1989. My bio : Notes on an American childhood -- A last letter -- Sources.

"Legendary 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. Mueller's 1990 'Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black' 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 : the original contents of 'Clear Water', additional stories discovered by Amy Scholder for the posthumous anthology 'Ask Dr. Mueller', selections from Mueller's art and advice columns for 'Details' and the 'East Village Eye', and still "new" stories collected and published here for the first time."--Publisher.

Biographical fiction.

El Kholti, Hedi.

Kraus, Chris, 1963-

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