BOMB magazine archive
The Simplest Thing, July 1988
The Mystery of Tap Water, July 1983
Theatre, January 1982
A True Story About Two People: Easter 1964, April 1981
Baltimore 1969, October 1982
Brenda Losing/Valerie Losing 2, January 1982
My Bio: Notes on an American Childhood, 1949–1959, January 1985
The Head Gargoyle, April 1983
East Village Eye archive
January 1983
June 1983
March 1985
June 1984
Fales Library and Special Collections online resource
Serpent’s Tail/High Risk Archives contains manuscripts, newspaper and magazine publications, and drafts of Cookie Mueller’s writings. It also contains personal photographs, drawings, and other materials belonging to Cookie Mueller.
Additional related materials are held at the Fales Library in the following collections:
Richard Hell Papers
Amos Poe Papers
Ira Silverberg Papers
Dennis Cooper Papers
Ron Kolm Papers
Frank Moore Papers
David Wojnarowicz Papers
“Not Only This, But New Language Beckons Us” Exhibition Archive
Sylvere Lotringer Papers and Semiotext(e) Archive
Visit the online archive here.
Cookie Mueller & Vittorio Scarpati Elsewhere
Artists Space, NYC
Between Bridges, Berlin
Mission356 No Credit, Cash Only: Cookie in Film + Video is a visual lecture of images and clips. Presented by Dirty Looks NYC’s Bradford Nordeen.
VISUAL AIDS 5th Annual Last Address Tribute Walk, Bette Gordon Tribute to Cookie Mueller
Kathe Burhart on Cookie Mueller as part of the exhibition Not only this, but New language beckons us at Fales Library and Special Collections, 2013.
Books about Cookie Mueller
Edgewise – a Picture of Cookie Mueller
Art direction & design concept: Chloé Griffin and Gwenaël Rattke.
Publisher: b_books Verlag in Berlin, Germany
Distributor: ARTBOOK | D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers)
“Quite possibly the best history of New York’s much-reprised ‘last avant-garde’ of the 1980s, Edgewise reinvents the inspired amateurism of Mueller’s work, and also creates unforgettable portraits of John Waters’s Baltimore and Provincetown in the 1970s, ‘when the water was still clean.’” Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and Summer of Hate.
Edgewise tells the story of Cookie’s life in the form of an oral history assembled from more than 80 interviews with the people who knew her, including John Waters, Mink Stole, Gary Indiana, Sharon Niesp, Max Mueller, Linda Yablonsky, Richard Hell, Amos Poe and Raymond Foye. The contributors take us from the late-1960s artist communes of Baltimore to 1970s Provincetown and New York, through 1980s Berlin and Positano.
This book marks the first time Cookie’s full story has been told in any form—whether print, film or online.
Purchase here.
Bibliography
Books by Cookie Mueller
How To Get Rid of Pimples. New York: Top Stories, 1984.
Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls. New York: Hanuman Books (no. 15), 1988.
Putti’s Pudding. With illustrations by Vittorio Scarpati. Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin International, 1989. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black. New York: Semiotext(e), 1990.
Garden of Ashes. New York: Hanuman Books (no. 34), 1990.
Ask Dr. Mueller. Edited by Amy Scholder. New York: High Risk Books, 1997.
DRUGS. Cookie Mueller and Glenn O’Brien. The Kingsboro Press and For The Common Good, 2016.
Other Publications
Baltimore 1964: A True Story About Two People and Provincetown, Massachusetts: A True Story, 1970. In Ferro-Botanica no. 3. NJ: Steel Garden Press, 1982.
Route 95 South-Baltimore to Orlando. In Just Another Asshole #6. Edited by Barbara Ess and Glenn Franca. New York: JAA, 1983.
Baltimore, 1964: A True Story about Two People and Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1970 and British Columbia, 1972 and Andrew: Secrets of the Skinny and Randy Eros, the Sexiest Kid in Town and The Story of Frank the Dog and Frieda Ann the Third. In Wild History. Edited by Richard Prince. New York: Tanarn Press, 1985.
The Truth About the End of the World. In Angle of Repose. Edited by Nancy Peskin. Buffalo, NYI Hallwalls, 1986. [A collection of stories presented during the 1983-84 Fiction-Diction reading series at Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY]
An Object Too Long Pondered. In Thought Objects: Just Another Asshole #7. Edited by Barbara Ess and Glenn Branca. Buffalo, NY.: CEPA; New York: JAA Press, 1987.
My Bio: Notes on an American Childhood. In Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists. Edited by Brian Wallis. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art; Cambridge, MA; MIT Press, 1987.
It Happened on the Haight. In Pandemonium 2. Edited by Jack Stevenson. Cambridge, MA Living Color Productions, 1987.
Pink Flamingos. In Spunky International: Translux. Edited by Billy Miller. Independently produced artist book, 1988.
Superior Beings. In Your House is Mine-A Collection of Images and Texts Concerning the Broad and Essential Issue of Housing on the Lower East Side. Edited by Andrew Castrucci and Nadia Corn in conjunction with ACT UP and Bulletspace. New York: Bulletspace, 1989-1991. [Limited edition artist book (150 portfolio copies); a newspaper edition of 10,000 copies based on the artists book was issued in 1993.]
Sam’s Party. In A Day in The Lift: Tales From The Lower East: An Anthology of Writings from the Lower East Side, 1940-1990. Edited by Alan Moore and Josh Gosciak. New York: Evil Eye Book. and Autonomedia, 1990.
Which Came First? In Out World in Anthology of the St. Mark’s Poetry Project 1966-1991, Edited by Anne Waldman. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1st Edition, 1991. New York Crown Publishing Group, 1991.
The One Percent. In High Risk: An Anthology of Forbidden Writings. Edited by Amy Scholder and Ira Silverberg. New York Plume, 1991. Reprint: Serpents Tail, 1991. Hardcover Edition: Dutton Books, 1991. [Translated into Italian: Ad alto rischio. Antologla di seritti proibiti. Translators: M. Garuti and S. Migx. Shake, 1997.]
Goda and other selections from How To Get Rid of Pimples. In Top Top Stories. Edited by Anne Turyn. New York: City Lights Publishers, 1991.
The Italian Remedy–1982 and Ask Dr. Mueller–Brief Tips from Italy (September 1983). In Ten Years After: Naples, 1986-1996. Nan Goldin. Zurich: Scalp Verlag, 1998.
Keep a Few Things in Mind and At the Hour Before Dawn and Those Days and Life Among the Alert of Europe, in collaboration with Richard Hell and H. M. Koutoukas. In Hot and Cold. Richard Hell. New York: powerHouse Books, 2001.
The Birth of Max Mueller. In The Devil’s Playground. Nan Goldin. London: Phaidon Press, 2003.
Excerpt of Art and About from Details magazine (November 1988). In so80’s: A Photographic Diary of a Decade. Edited by Patrick McMullan. New York: powerHouse Books, 2003.
It Happened in the Haight. In The High Times Reader. Edited by Annie Nocenti and Ruth Baldwin. New York: Nation Books, 2004.
Go–Going–New York & New Jersey–1978–79. In Up Is Up, But So Is Down. New York’s Downtown Literary Scene, 1974-1992. Edited by Brandon Stosuy. New York: NYU Press, 2006.
Fleeting Happiness. In The Reader. Edited by Ali Smith. London: Constable, 2006. [Later printed under the title The Book Lover. New York: Anchor Books, 2008.]
Magazines and Journals
Bomb
A quarterly arts and culture magazine:
“A True Story about Two People, Easter 1964.” Bomb, Spring (1981)
“Theatre,” Bomb, Winter (1981–1982)
“Baltimore 1969.” Bomb, Fall (1982)
“The Head Gargoyle.” Bomb, Spring (1983)
“The Mystery of Tap Water.” Bomb, Summer (1983)
“My Bio: Notes on an American Childhood, 1949–1959.” Bomb, Winter (1985)
“The Simplest Thing.’ Bomb, Summer (1988)
City Lights Review
Literary Journal published by City Lights bookstore, edited by Amy Scholder:
“A Last Letter.” City Lights Review no. 2 (1988)
CUZ
Published by St Mark’s Poetry Project:
“Go–Going.”, Cuz no. 1 (1988)
“Keep a Few Things in Mind.” Cuz no. 3 (1989)
Details
Monthly magazine:
“Art and About” and ‘Travel Guide Details (August/September 1982– September 1989)
East Village Eye
Monthly magazine of popular and avant garde culture. Cookie worked as contributing editor (1983–1985): “Ask Dr. Mueller.” East Village Eye (October 1982–June 1985)
“Alphaville.” East Village Eye, July (1982)
“Video & Self Image.” East Village Eye, August (1982)
“Film: Geek Maggot Bingo.” East Village Eye, April (1983)
The Gargoyle
Literary magazine of Catonsville High School, Baltimore, MD:
Short stories and poetry, late ’60s
High Times
Monthly magazine Worked as contributing editor (1985–1986):
“High Advisor.” High Times (February 1985–March 1986)
“It Happened in the Haight.” High Times, May (1986)
“Reagan.” 1111th Times, June (1986)
“It Happened in the Haight.” High Times. [Reprint] March (1990)
Long Shot
Literary magazine edited by Danny Shot. Long Shot Productions:
“Ed’s Party—Lower East Side, NYC, 1979.” Long Shot, vol. 5 (1987)
Lo Spazio Umano: Rivista Internationale di Sri–enze Umane, Arte e Letteratura
Quarterly arts magazine edited by Enrico R. Comi
“I Hear America Sinking or A Suburban Girl Who is Naïve and Stupid Finds Her Reward” Lo Spazio Umano: Rivista Internationale di Sneeze Umane, Arte e Letteratura, no. 11, April–June (1984)
“The Mystery of Tap Water.” Lo Spazio Umano: Rivista Internationale di Seienze Umane, Arte e Letteratura, no. 12, July–September (1984)
Saturday Review of Literature
Weekly magazine. Worked as contributing editor (May 1985–June 1986):
“New York City’s 6 Best, Most Undiscovered Artists.” Saturday Review of Literature, July/ August (1985) “Larger Than Life: The World of Robert Longo.” Saturday Review of Literature, November/December (1985)
Soho Weekly News
Weekly magazine:
“Champagne & Cocaine.” Soho Weekly News, May (1981)
Soldes Magazine
A Brussels “tabloid New Wave graphique international”. Edited by Anne Frere, Marc Borgers, Michel Renard, Jean–Louis Sbille:
All You Need is Love issue no, 8/9 (January 1981). John Waters interviewed by Cookie Mueller The World No. 34, 1981. The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church literary magazine. Edited by Ann Rower “The Third Twin” and “San Francisco, 1967: Near Easter, All True.” The World, No. 34 (1981)
Verbal Abuse
A literary quarterly “Life Among the Alert of Europe,” in collaboration with Richard Hell. Verbal Abuse, no. 1 (1993)
Catalogues
“A Last Letter.” In Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing. AIDS exhibition curated by Nan Goldin at Artists Space (16 Nov. 1989–6 Jan. 1990). Jedd Garet Text for catalogue New York: Totah–Stelling Art, 1985
