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Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller (High Risk Books) [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Cookie Mueller , John K. Waters
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  • Taschenbuch: 320 Seiten
  • Verlag: Serpents Tail (6. März 1997)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 1852423315
  • ISBN-13: 978-1852423315
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,8 x 12,4 x 2 cm
  • Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.6 von 5 Sternen  Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)
  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.208.542 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Cookie Mueller occupies that odd niche in U.S. popular culture in which cult fame is enhanced by mainstream obscurity. Lauded in the New York gay underground art scene for her subversive fiction, idiosyncratic art reviews, and life-as-performance personality, Mueller, who died of AIDS in 1989, did everything from appear in John Waters's Multiple Maniacs as Divine's daughter to writing a weekly surrealistic, drug-induced advice column in the East Village Other. Still, hardly anyone knows who she is. Ask Dr. Mueller collects most of her prose and showcases her vision and style, which are as original as they are smart, and her all-out assault on propriety and decency is both witty and refreshing. Even in death, Mueller manages to shock and entertain us, and, with the publication of this book, may finally find the fame she deserves.

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Mueller considers medieval and Renaissance painters' probable anguish over giving Adam and Eve navels; after all, the two were created, not born. Which leads to rumination about the social life of restorers of Leonardo's Last Supper, then to a friend's remark that the ancient Egyptians used "an ingredient called asphaltum" on mummies. The stuff makes a base for paint that gets better with age. Recently, "artists exhumed the mummies and ground them into paint. Think of the joy of owning a painting that holds on its canvas the body of some charismatic pharaoh." Thus, Mueller's art commentary. She also dispenses medical advice the average Joe can use, such as a healthy way to cut cocaine--with inositol, which enhances brain cell nutrition and hair growth, protects the liver, heart, and kidneys, and "is beneficial in the treatment of constipation, but then who ever heard of a constipated cocaine user?" Social criticism and a sketch of moviemaker John Waters when young help make the late Mueller's book cover-to-cover entertaining. Mike Tribby

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Cookie Mueller was a rare bird, indeed. Although a dark-hearted urban creature of Manhattan, she was also a natural-born writer, and more than that, a risk-taker who made no apologies and was able to maintain an insightful eloquence about her mistakes and triumphs.

What triumphs could those be, you ask? A junkie freak with a penchant for public urination? Her written documentation is the parallel of the photography of Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin and Mary Ellen Mark. She reported her milieu without much sympathy and her readers are the wiser for it.

Don't read this if: you are squeamish about drugs, ambivalent sexuality or bodily functions. Also don't attempt it if: you tend to glorify the rot of drug addiction, death, and/or perversion. Either way, you'll be disappointed. Do read it if: you're a fan of the unvarnished stuff of life, told in fanciful reportage, with little self-consciousness.

I think Cookie would approve if I close by saying that these collected essays are perfect toilet reading.

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Many books in one!!! 12. Juli 1999
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This is a great book. It has the complete "Garden of Ashes" and "Crank Calls" books that are now out of print. Plus most of the book "Walking through Clear Water". Also included are works from newspapers and magazines, as well as unreleased stories. My only complaint is that the only pictures of her are on the front and back cover. The most complete Cookie Mueller book to date.

Also recommended:

"Walking Through Clear Water" is small and convenient to carry around. It has 2 stories not included in "Ask Doctor Mueller"

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Was introduced to Cookie's work at an Other Voices, Voices Lost event in NYC. The actor/comedian Julie Halston read/performed some of this book and the audience was in tears with laughter. It's NY angst as its dry witty best.
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