Chloé Griffin’s illustrated biographical tribute to Cookie Mueller (who died in 1989 at the age of forty), a pivotal character in downtown New York’s punk avant-garde during the late 1970s and 1980s, reveals Mueller’s roles as actress, performer, nascent writer and critic, wife, mother, lover, sometime go-go dancer and drug dealer, and fulltime partygoer. Griffin tells her story through the words of the friends and family who knew and loved her best. These include cult film director John Waters, whose early films she acted in; Mueller’s son, Max; her longtime lover Sharon Niesp; and a host of other underground artists, writers, poets and filmmakers, a total of 80 interviews, undertaken over a seven-year period.
Details
– Published 2014
– Published by b_books
– Paperback
– 340 pages
– 15 × 22.8 cm
Chloé Griffin’s illustrated biographical tribute to Cookie Mueller (who died in 1989 at the age of forty), a pivotal character in downtown New York’s punk avant-garde during the late 1970s and 1980s, reveals Mueller’s roles as actress, performer, nascent writer and critic, wife, mother, lover, sometime go-go dancer and drug dealer, and fulltime partygoer. Griffin tells her story through the words of the friends and family who knew and loved her best. These include cult film director John Waters, whose early films she acted in; Mueller’s son, Max; her longtime lover Sharon Niesp; and a host of other underground artists, writers, poets and filmmakers, a total of 80 interviews, undertaken over a seven-year period.
Details
– Published 2014
– Published by b_books
– Paperback
– 340 pages
– 15 × 22.8 cm
