{"product_id":"walking-through-clear-water-in-a-pool-painted-black-new-edition-collected-stories-paperback","title":"Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, New Edition: Collected Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCookie Mueller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eOlivia Laing\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eHedi El Kholti\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book \u003ci\u003eWalking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black\u003c\/i\u003e, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLegendary as an underground actress, female adventurer, and East Village raconteur, Cookie Mueller's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 \u003ci\u003eWalking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eClear Water\u003c\/i\u003e, to additional stories discovered by Amy Scholder for the posthumous anthology \u003ci\u003eAsk Dr. Mueller\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThanks to recent documentaries like Mallory Curley's \u003ci\u003eA Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e and Chloé Griffin's oral biography \u003ci\u003eEdgewise\u003c\/i\u003e, Mueller's life and work have been discovered by a new generation of readers. \u003ci\u003eWalking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e amounts to \"a how-to manual for a life ricocheting joyously off the rails . . . a live corrective to conformity, conservatism, and cruelty.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCookie Mueller (1949-1989), nee Dorothy Karen Mueller, played leading roles in John Waters's \u003ci\u003ePink Flamingos\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFemale Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDesperate Living, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMultiple Maniacs\u003c\/i\u003e. She wrote for the \u003ci\u003eEast Village Eye\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDetails\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, performed in a series of plays by Gary Indiana, and wrote numerous stories that would only be published posthumously. She died in New York City of AIDS-related complications at age 40. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOlivia Laing is the author of \u003ci\u003eCrudo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTo the River\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Trip to Echo Spring\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely City\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and translated into fifteen languages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChris Kraus is the author of four novels, including \u003ci\u003eI Love Dick\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSummer of Hate\u003c\/i\u003e; two books of art and cultural criticism; and most recently, \u003ci\u003eAfter Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.9 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 26, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987463471405,"sku":"9781635901665","price":19.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/b3JBZWRmcVhVZjFDWnRQbXZGVzF0dz09.webp?v=1776178857","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/walking-through-clear-water-in-a-pool-painted-black-new-edition-collected-stories-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}