Research Catalog

Title

Ask Dr. Mueller : the writings of Cookie Mueller / edited by Amy Scholder ; [introduction by John Waters].

Author

Mueller, Cookie.

Publication

New York : High Risk Books, [1997], ©1997.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Scholder, Amy.

Description

xiii, 294 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• Ask Dr. Mueller captures the glamour and grittiness of Cookie Mueller's life and times. Here are previously unpublished stories - wacky as they are enlightening - along with favorites from Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black and other publications. Also, the best of Cookie's art columns from Details magazine, and the funniest of her advice columns from the East Village Eye, on everything from homeopathic medicine to how to cut your cocaine with a healthy substance.
• This collection is as much autobiography as it is a map of downtown New York in the early '80s - that moment before Bright Lights, Big City, before the art world exploded, before New York changed into a yuppie metropolis, while it still had a glimmer of bohemian life.

Contents

• Introduction / John Waters -- No Credit, Cash Only - Baltimore, 1967 -- John Waters and the Blessed Profession - 1969 -- Provincetown - 1970 -- Jamaica - 1975 -- The Stone of New Orleans - 1983 -- Out of the Bottle and Into a Danish Remedy -- The Italian Remedy - 1982 -- Dogs I Have Known -- Another Boring Day -- The Mystery of Tap Water -- Brenda Losing -- The One Percent -- A Last Letter -- Two People - Baltimore, 1964 -- Haight-Ashbury - San Francisco, 1967 -- The Pig Farm - Baltimore & York, Pennsylvania, 1969 -- Abduction and Rape - Highway 31, Elkton, Maryland, 1969 -- Sailing -- The Birth of Max Mueller - September 25, 1971 -- Pink Flamingos -- British Columbia - 1972 -- Go-Going - New York & New Jersey, 1978-79 -- Sam's Party - Lower East Side, NYC, 1979 -- The Berlin Film Festival - 1981 -- My Bio - Notes on a American Childhood -- Fan mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls -- Cookie Mueller -- Alien - 1965 -- Breaking into Show Bizz -- Waiting for the New Age --
• Edith Massey: A Star -- Tattooed Friends -- Female Trouble -- Divine -- Fleeting Happiness -- The Homeless -- Ask Dr. Mueller (from East Village Eye) -- Art and About (from Details magazine).

ISBN

1852423315 (pbk.) :

LCCN

96069698

OCLC

ocm36554111

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries