{"title":"Cookie Mueller","description":"\u003cp\u003eDive into the fearless world of Cookie Mueller. Her collected works offer a raw, witty, and unapologetically honest glimpse into art, sex, and downtown New York. 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Mueller s 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. 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