Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller

10 best books like Ask Dr. Mueller: The Writings of Cookie Mueller (Cookie Mueller): Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus, Regarding the Pain of Others, Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors, Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters, The Furies, Angry Women, William Eggleston's Guide, The Americans, Pittsburgh

Sonnets to Orpheus
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
ISBN0393328856
To Rilke himself the Sonnets to Orpheus were "perhaps the most mysterious in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of...
AuthorRainer Maria Rilke
ISBN0618565892
Who's turned us around like this,
so that whatever we do, we always have
the look of someone going away? Just as a man
on the last hill showing him his whole valley
one last time, turns, and stops, and lingers -
so we live, and are forever leaving. (70)


When was the last...
AuthorSusan Sontag
ISBN0141012374
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newspapers) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by...
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
AuthorSusan Sontag
ISBN0312420137
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the...
AuthorJohn Waters
ISBN0394755340
I'll forever love John Waters for the following reasons

1. He has subscriptions to Jet and Women's Wear Weekly magazines.
2. He hates MCI (remember them?)
3. He attended a matinee of the Carebears movie, it was for research.
4. I now know that Baltimore once had an angry lesbian...
AuthorJanet Hobhouse
ISBN1590170857
Sirene



Le Furie di Janet Hobhouse, è “un romanzo intimamente autobiografico”, affascinante nella prima parte - perché la famiglia di lei è ebreo tedesca arrivata a New York nella metà dell’Ottocento - spregiudicata nella seconda, quando l’autrice ha circa vent’anni...
AuthorV. Vale
ISBN0940642247
DIAMANDA GALAS: The original nature of woman's voice has always been tied to witches and the shamanistic experience--the witch as transvestite/transsexual having the power of both male and female.

LYDIA LUNCH: They're killing too much of the earth and not enough of the people! Another reversal...
William Eggleston's Guide
AuthorWilliam Eggleston
ISBN0870703781
William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of color photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with color photography,...
The Americans
AuthorRobert Frank
ISBN3931141802
Armed with a camera and a fresh cache of film and bankrolled by a Guggenheim Foundation grant, Robert Frank crisscrossed the United States during 1955 and 1956. The photographs he brought back form a portrait of the country at the time and hint at its future. He saw the hope of the future in the faces of a...
Pittsburgh
AuthorFrank Santoro
ISBN2369902523
Originaire de la ville de Pittsburgh (Pennsylvanie) où il habite toujours, Frank Santoro tente avec ce nouveau livre de comprendre comment ses parents, divorcés depuis près de 30 ans, en sont arrivés à ne plus s’adresser la parole alors qu’ils travaillent dans le même endroit. Il retrace...
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