7 must-read art books like Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller

Cover of Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi…

If you liked the art plot in Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz

1. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

By: David Wojnarowicz

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection o… read more

Similar categories in David Wojnarowicz's Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration book and Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

  • new york
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"I carry silence like a blood-filled egg."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"When they invented the car they invented the collision and the darkness of what time leads the willing body to do."

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I crawled through the walls of every social taboo I could come across. I wanted to celebrate everything we are denied through structure of laws or physical force. I just did it quietly and anonymousl…"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

"I wanted to be physically erased and start over again. I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be there. I guess I wanted to be nowhere, I wanted to listen to my brain talk inside of nothingness. …"

-David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Cover of Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller by John Waters, Gary Indiana, Chloe Griffin, Mink Stole

2. Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller

By: John Waters , Gary Indiana , Chloe Griffin , Mink Stole

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a firecracker, a cult figure, a wild child, a writer, a go-go dancer… read more

Similar categories in John Waters's Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller book and Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer

3. Aliens & Anorexia

By: Chris Kraus

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Paperback

As the rope was tightening around my neck, an Alien made love to me. Belief is a technology for sof… read more

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4. Bad Behavior

By: Mary Gaitskill

4.11

Format: None pages,

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5. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

Similar categories in Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black book and Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

  • new york
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer

6. Chelsea Girls

By: Eileen Myles

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age n… read more

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7. Rent Boy

By: Gary Indiana

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Danny is a rent boy, an architecture student, a waiter, and hot! Working his way through school see… read more

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8. El cielo de la selva

By: Elaine Vilar Madruga

4.37

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

La selva es un dios hambriento. Uno que permite vivir a salvo en sus dominios pero exige el más alt… read more

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9. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

By: Sophia Giovannitti

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice… read more

Similar categories in Sophia Giovannitti's Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex book and Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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10. Earth Angel

By: Madeline Cash

4.05

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her electric debut, Madeline Cash synthesizes the godlessness of a digital age into a glimmering… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Cash's Earth Angel book and Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

  • short stories
Cover of La seducción by Sara  Torres

11. La seducción

By: Sara Torres

3.68

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

Tras el éxito de Lo que hay, vuelve con una novela sobre la distancia, el deseo y la fantasía la au… read more

Similar categories in Sara Torres's La seducción book and Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Esa es la propuesta del 'amor' humano hacia los animales: adáptate a mi ley o muere."

-Sara Torres, La seducción

"No elegimos las primeras imágenes que capturan nuestro deseo. Nos son impuestas: por azar, por poder o por norma."

-Sara Torres, La seducción

"Imagino ese concretísimo gesti para poder correrme. ¿Qué dice de mi? ¿Qué dicen de nosotras las imágenes que nos desatan?"

-Sara Torres, La seducción

"Las observaba y sus gestos, imaginados en mi propia carne, me dolían, pero a ellas no. Parecía natural su ser suaves, imberbes, con aroma a frambuesa y a plátano."

-Sara Torres, La seducción

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12. La ternura

By: Paula Ducay

3.59

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Naima y Marco, compañeros de trabajo separados por una cierta diferencia de edad, han desarrollado … read more

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13. Down the Drain

By: Julia Fox

4.40

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more

Similar categories in Julia Fox's Down the Drain book and Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

  • new york
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"

-Julia Fox, Down the Drain

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14. Ñu

By: Pau Luque

3.81

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

Una loa a los secretos, los equívocos, los errores y las contradicciones. Un iluminador libro de an… read more

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Cover of Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase by Anna Pacheco

15. Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase

By: Anna Pacheco

4.14

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Una brillante radiografía de las dinámicas laborales en el sector del turismo. El turismo ha cam… read more

Similar categories in Anna Pacheco's Estuve aquí y me acordé de nosotros: Una historia sobre turismo, trabajo y clase book and Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Artless: Stories 2019-2023 (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) by Natasha Stagg

16. Artless: Stories 2019-2023 (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

By: Natasha Stagg

3.91

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

A document of New York from an author too close to the story to be a trustworthy eyewitness.Compose… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Stagg's Artless: Stories 2019-2023 (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) book and Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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17. Raving

By: McKenzie Wark

3.81

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more

Similar categories in McKenzie Wark's Raving book and Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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18. El celo

By: Sabina Urraca

4.39

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

La noche en que encontró a la Perra, la Humana estaba drogada. Por eso dejó que la siguiera a casa.… read more

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"¿ Qué necesidad hay del demonio cuando basta la persona ? Henri Michaux"

-Sabina Urraca, El celo

"La Madre piensa que su hija tiene un trabajo , una vida . No sabe que todos sus días son días libres , y , al mismo tiempo , imposibles de vivir ."

-Sabina Urraca, El celo

"El organismo droga a la recién parida para que quiera a su bebé y relativice cualquier horror del entorno. En términos salvajes, ¿ por qué iba alguien a tener clemencia con un ser que le ha dejado el…"

-Sabina Urraca, El celo

"En términos terapéuticos lo explican así : al pasar el efecto de la droga , lo más probable es que el paciente vuelva a estar deprimido . Pero durante su viaje de éxtasis ha vuelto a conocer la sensa…"

-Sabina Urraca, El celo

Cover of Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019 by Natasha Stagg

19. Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019

By: Natasha Stagg

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Eve Babitz meets Roland Barthes in Sleeveless, Natasha Stagg's follow up to Surveys, her 2016 novel… read more

Similar categories in Natasha Stagg's Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011–2019 book and Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

  • new york
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz by David Wojnarowicz

20. Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz

By: David Wojnarowicz

4.31

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

In these moments I hate language. I hate what words are like, I hate the idea of putting these pref… read more

Similar categories in David Wojnarowicz's Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz book and Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) by Jackie Wang

21. Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

By: Jackie Wang

4.39

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, … read more

Similar categories in Jackie Wang's Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun: An Almanac of Extreme Girlhood (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents) book and Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • lgbt

11 Top nonfiction books like Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller

Transform Your Habits

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

David Wojnarowicz

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller

John Waters , Gary Indiana , Chloe Griffin , Mink Stole

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Cookie Mueller

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

Sophia Giovannitti

4.07

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14 Best fiction books like El celo by Sabina Urraca

Transform Your Habits

El cielo de la selva

Elaine Vilar Madruga

4.37

Transform Your Habits

La mala costumbre

Alana S. Portero

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol

Mónica Ojeda

3.86

Transform Your Habits

La seducción

Sara Torres

3.68

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